Taxis are exempt from many safety laws do they have fewer accidents?

an example would be new booster seat laws (UK) a taxi has seat belts normally and is no more safe than a normal car indeed often it is a normal car not a black cab just a taxi driver so shouldn't the law apply and the parents provide legal seating for each child - the legislatition is in regards to hieght for seatbelt use - because the seatbelts aren't safe under certain hieghts

Answers:
the new laws currently exempts taxis, but there is a clause that says when it is reasonably practicable it will be extended to taxis and mini buses.

Coaches/Buses are completely exempt at this stage.
They have no fewer accidents than any other driver. Because taxi drivers are usually aggressive, any driving experience they have offsets their hurry.
Laws are usually enforced or written when the perceptible outrage of the public is high enough to offset the influence of business. In many cases, the placating of business (or the public) is maintained by exception, rather than setting an unvarying level of control.
We used to do it with corporate charters, but there wasn't enough public outrage to justify government maintaining controls over business.
Seatbelts aren't safe for people under a certain height, and the cars aren't safe for people over a certain height. Welcome to the mediocre middle that is killing humanity.
Because this labour governments legilation is ill thought out and wreckless. The bigger question is why introduce the booster seat law? The answer: to divert attention from the pathetic government-
Taxi drivers are pain in the, you know what.

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