Perhaps?
Posted on 06/04/2005 7:45:39 AM PDT by new cruelty
Ironic that so many Police stations are advertising their enforcement of wearing seat belts for the summer.
Doncha just love it when the goobermint protects us from ourselves?
I can see where deployment of airbags could be fatal. What I'm more concerned about are seatbelts, particularly the shoulder harnesses. I have a problem finding one that fits properly. I'm short, and most of these harnesses come around my throat. I think if I were in an accident, I'd probably be decapitated. But I have only found maybe one or two shoulder harnesses that actually fit comfortably. And I don't think the car manufacturers will be interested in making these harnesses to fit everyone until there is an accident where one of them does cause harm and they are sued.
10,000 vice 243? I like those percentages for airbags. Go buy the cutoff switch if you feel otherwise.
I feel safer every day.
Wow. Just how short are you? Perhaps you could use a pillow to lift you up. I think that is what my grandmother did, before we convinced her to stop driving.
Buy one of the thick sheepskin pads that you can put on the shoulder harness. They have them at auto stores and even WalMart. I had the same problem, and the pad not only makes the belt more comfortable and keeps it off your neck, but covers up that sharp edge.
"wear a seatbelt. protect yourself (from your airbag)."
The problem is the gov't requires that the air bag stop an adult not wearing a seat belt. So they deploy with a lot of force.
The requirement of stopping an adult without a seat belt in not universally required. I believe Europe requires stopping an adult wearing a seat belt. Deployment under this requirement is less lethal. This makes more sense to me.
Follow the money...TRW and airbags?
Nice source of local revenue for seatbelt "violations"
After the Feds drain the local cash cows (taxpayers) (and stopped kicking any money back the states,counties,and municipalities) they too must 'wet their beaks' and milk those same cows even more than they were milked before the feds stopped kicking back..
imo
You should visit (gulp) your car dealership (if your car is fairly new.) They should be able to assist you in getting properly set-up. Passenger safety is a very big selling point for Honda, Volvo, Saab, Mercedes - probably for the others as well.
And mark my words - some day the use of sun screen will be tied the recent increase in skin cancer cases.
How did the species survive for thousands of years before the invention of sun screen?
I've learned to drive with my seat position further back away from the airbag.
And I no longer drive with my hand on top of the steering wheel, because if the airbag deploys it can force your arm back into your face breaking your nose, knock teeth out etc.
So I've learned to grip the steering wheel on the lower half.
Idiots in DC deciding what we eat, read, drive, see, etc.
It sure aint't the same country I grew up in where I could go anywhere playing with my friends until "dinner time", to fearing my children will be raped and murdered by the "family member" visiting my neighbor because do gooders put him back on the streets.
I think it is more of an issue with insurance companies who got sold on the idea --- most of their claims come from the idiot-types that do not wear their seatbelts.
I am convinced that --- if wearing a seatbelt --- airbags are useless ---- or worse, dangerous.
It is a situation where --- as per usual --- the government hurts the sensible person who wears a seatbelt in order to protect the morons of the world.
Chasing this botton 10% of society at the cost of the top 90% --- in schools, in work, in whatever.
Alas, that bottom 10% of morons are reliable Dimocrat voters.
"The problem is the gov't requires that the air bag stop an adult not wearing a seat belt"
Right, and a male adult too. With a weight of about 160 lbs. iirc.
From this article it sounds like they should do something with the cars so that the airbag will not deploy unless the car is going above a certain rate of speed. I think that would improve their death statistics a good deal.
Our new car has a sensor with the passenger side airbag, it only becomes functional if a full sized/weight person sits there. So if you, for whatever reason, have to put a little kid in that seat the bag is not functional. It's not an on/off switch though.
I have it on good authority that leaded paint provides the same level of protection if you eat enough of it.
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