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
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.