>>Care to dispute that point sir?<<
Well, I for one can not dispute that point. Other than the fact that those were not the laws when I got my license.
I guess they can come up with any boneheaded law they want - like helmets in cars, for example - and I'll just have to say, "oh well, I made that choice when I agreed to the rules of the road".
By the way, if you choose not to wear, you only pay a fine when you get caught.
On a side note, when they first started putting those warning buzzers in cars, I knew people who could not figure out how to unplug the buzzer, but they drove around SITTING ON THEIR BUCKLED UP SEAT BELTS.
On another side note, in our old car, the seat belt chafed my wifes shoulder/neck raw, so she quit wearing it.
Until such time as you can see the law changed you just have to follow it, or pay the consequences for not doing so. Personal responsibility can be a b!t@% sometimes.
Paying the fine is all one can do if they chose not to wear the seat belt.
It was much easier to remove the ground harness so you didn't have to buckle the belt and sit on that uncomfortable thing!
On the shoulder harness deal, that is not part of our law here. I do not wear mine and have been pulled over before because of it. Then the police notice I am indeed wearing my belt and I have never got a fine out of the deal. I have been lectured but I fire back that there is no provision in the law for wearing the shoulder harness.
The titanium in my spine and the fact I have broken my left collarbone three times causes me to avoid that shoulder harness also. When I ride ( as is the case most of the time) I do wear the shoulder harness.
Don't forget the early air bags that deployed with such force that they were killing people, mostly the frail and elderly, little kids, and small women.
It was another government_one_size_fits_all 'solution' that killed people.