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Recently, while I was in Dijon, France, I happened to be listening to BBC on the radio, and heard a Yorkshire consumer affairs official complaining that the law gave him power only to require that “push-chairs” (baby carriages, or prams) be stable and have reliable brakes, but not to require that their handles not come off. Reacting to an incident of local notoriety, he seemingly felt the need for broader power under law to see to it that Yorkshire mothers be able to use prams as nearly perfect as government regulation could make them.1
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Byrne, E. (1983). Can Government Regulate Technology?. In: Durbin, P.T., Rapp, F. (eds) Philosophy and Technology. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 80. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-7124-0_2
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