GS> But still, this is way too much, but people don't seem to worry about
 GS> that. They're scared of terrorism (we've had less than 20 fatalities
 GS> within the last 10 years), murder and manslaughter (300 fatalities per
 GS> year) or plance crashes (probably less than 100 fatalities within the
 GS> last 20 years over Germany).


Our statistics are probably not that much different when you look at the
population density between our countries across the board with the exception
of manslaughter and murder.  Some say the course of action is to ban guns,
but the one thing that I see clearly here in America is that banning
something only creates more crime.  It creates a blackmarket system where the
banned items are sold at a higher price to the people who you don't want to
have them and when you have a blackmarket you can bet the people who would
not pass the screening on the regular market would be shopping the black
market.

When people get desperate they sell anything they have anywhere.  I've even
had to resort to selling family heirloom antiques to pay for my insulin this
past month.  Sad as it is medicine here in America is much more expensive
than any other place in the world... I'm told we develop most of the new
medicines and it's our citizens that ultimately bear the cost of the
development that's not paid by government grants and advertisements.

 GS> And I don't think it's just people forgetting to take their pills or
 GS> taking the wrong ones or at the wrong time or something like that,
 GS> because building a machine telling you when to take which pill would be
 GS> so much easier than building self-driving cars, yet still there seems to
 GS> be no market for that, either.
 GS> 

Self driving cars will only save lives when everyone is riding in self
driving cars and that can take many many years to come to pass.  All the
computerized networking and car to car communication that will make them
safer goes out the window when an unconnected human driver is out on the
street.

However I recently stumbled upon a cheap invention called a Timesulin.  It's
a cap with an LCD countdown clock that goes on the end of my insulin pens. 
When I uncap them the counter starts at Zero... cap replaced it starts
counting up in seconds / mins / hours.  I can tell at a glance how long it
was since my last shot.  It can tell me if I've taken my insulin or not. 
It's something that has certainly saved a life or two already... and it costs
less than $10.  What's more important.

They do have the pill containers that alarm, unfortunately there are a
multitude of reasons why some seniors don't use them.  They can't see them,
hear them, touch them, or whatever.  You an invent wonderful things like a
Timesulin, alarming pill container or a self driving cars but if people don't
adopt them and use them what benefits do they give?

Allen

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