Harvard Center for Risk Analysis did a cost-benefit analysis of airbags. Despite the fact that the public overwhelmingly believes airbags to be a safe and cost-effective enhancement to a modern vehicle, this study found that driver's side airbags cost $70,000 per "year of life saved" and passenger side airbags cost $400,000 per year of life saved.

The latter figure is one that obviously is not one that could be economically justified for the general population. Even for the driver's side airbag, I think the cost seems to be much higher than other life-saving expenditures we can be making.

Why did Nader believe so strongly that air bags needed to be installed in cars? It seems irrational to me. At this point, I think his ego is so tied up with airbags that he would never come out against them no matter how detrimental or expensive they turn out to be.

Quoted: air bags kill more children than they save according to the "best available evidence,"