Comments on: Government Sometimes Save Us Money – Tire Pressure Monitors

By: Really frustrated, and now..broke thanks to the morons behind this bill and supporting it.

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 03:06:34 +0000

Frankly, this is rediculous. Just another reason for us to have to waste hundreds of dollars, possibly yearly for programming, re-programming, as well as replacement [$123.56] per sensor that is…just because lazy people can’t look at their tires before they get in and check their pressures on their own. It’s really not that hard, and the gauge is alot cheap that having to train and replace a sensor…just so you all know.

Just another government official bored and trying to find something to keep them busy and deciding that since the majority are lazy, we all have to suffer for it.

Thank you all oh so very much.

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Hypermiling Saves Gas And Increases MPG — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 14:28:47 +0000

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By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 20:24:40 +0000

I’m somewhere along the lines of all my comments. I have yet to spring for a $30 air compressor to go in the garage to fill the tires and I suspect I’m not alone. I’m afraid that it’ll become one more light one the dash board. The missing item was that it’ll have all those wonderful benefits if people actually do something about the light turning on.

Mike

By: The Happy Rock

The Happy Rock — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 17:12:18 +0000

Thanks for the chuckle Mike. By those calculations I guess it is a good thing that saving lives isn’t the only benefit!

From what I remembering reading, the auto industry has been trying to fight this one for a while, they just lost.

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 15:18:56 +0000

If you’re dispassionate and calculating:
Hand waving some numbers from the May/June sales figures, I’d guess that the US sells 20M cars a year. That gives an annual cost per life saved between $8M and $11.5M. For cost/benefit calculations the FAA values a fatality at $3M. By that model, it’s a bad choice.

If you’re optimistic:
As soon as there’s a market for tire pressure sensors, the price will drop and it’ll disappear in the cost of the car.

If you’re cynical:
I’m surprised that the automotive industry hasn’t coming out decrying the expense and complaining about how it’ll ruin them (just like seat belts and air bags).

If you’re a Libertarian:
Damn government mandates

Mike