books.google.co.uk - Risk compensation postulates that everyone has a "risk thermostat" and that safety measures that do not affect the setting of the thermostat will be circumvented by behaviour that re-establishes the level of risk with which people were originally comfortable. It explains why, for example, motorists drive...http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Risk.html?id=swTOWkpOP68C&q=damage&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareRisk