--- title: Cars: How Creating a Market for Safety Could Save Lives description: A safety market, what the Internet of Things could do for criminal justice, why procrastinating is OK and more. canonical: https://time.com/4024941/saving-lives-market-for-safety/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-09-08T16:01:36.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:01:45.602Z article:section: Ideas og:title: How Creating a Market for Safety Could Save Lives og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4024941/saving-lives-market-for-safety/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: How Creating a Market for Safety Could Save Lives twitter:description: These are today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # How Creating a Market for Safety Could Save Lives by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Sep 8, 2015 4:01 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Sep 8, 2015 4:01 PM UTC **1\.** [**Could we use the power of markets to save lives with safer cars?**](https://www.newamerica.org/the-weekly-wonk/making-safety-a-market/) By Levi Tillemann at New America **2\.** [**The ‘Internet of Things’ could keep police safe and criminals under house arrest.**](http://fusion.net/story/186291/your-fridge-could-help-keep-you-under-house-arrest/) By Danielle Wiener-Bronner in Fusion **3\.** [**America wants you to feel ashamed about procrastinating. Don’t.**](http://www.newrepublic.com/article/122730/america-wants-you-feel-ashamed-about-procrastinating-dont) By Jonathan Malesic in the New Republic **4\.** [**Tweets can predict the death of an app.**](http://www.buzzfeed.com/williamalden/social-decay-how-tweets-can-predict-the-death-of-an-app) By William Alden and Jeremy Singer-Vine in Buzzfeed **5\.** [**The Muslim world is broken. It doesn’t have to be.**](http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/03/opinions/moghul-refugee-response-muslim-countries/index.html) By Haroon Moghul at CNN  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4024941/saving-lives-market-for-safety/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4024941/saving-lives-market-for-safety/"},"headline":"How Creating a Market for Safety Could Save Lives","datePublished":"2015-09-08T16:01:36.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:01:45.602Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4024941/saving-lives-market-for-safety/","keywords":["Innovation","apps","Criminal Justice","Car accident","Internet of Things","procrastination"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4024941/saving-lives-market-for-safety/","name":"How Creating a Market for Safety Could Save Lives"}}]}] ```