Posted on 06/29/2025 8:33:55 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
“Air bags do not save lives. Air bags provide no better margin of safety than seat belts alone. The argument for air bags is that they passive restrains. However empirical evidence does not show any safety benefit for similar vehicles with over those without.”
Might you have any studies to that effect? I’ve always had difficulty in understanding how airbags can do more than seat belts in restraining people in crashes. As you imply the case for airbags was that people didn’t wear seatbelts...well that bridge has been crossed, every state now has seat belt laws (some pretty silly, like making high school kids sit in boosters, but that’s another issue), and the vast majority of people wear their seat belts. So are airbags even needed anymore?
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