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If someone wants to be stupid and engage in reckless behavior that only endangers themselves, go for it.

It's the insurance lobby. They want you to pay in but, they don't want to pay out. Hurts their bottom lines.

Air bags was pushed by insurance companies. I believe just about everything having to do with driving restrictions is directly related to an insurance company.

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I think you are on to something.......Sherlock.....Holmes that is........(humor)

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Air bags was pushed by insurance companies. I believe just about everything having to do with driving restrictions is directly related to an insurance company.

Actually, airbags were pushed by Elizabeth Dole and the DoT more than the insurance companies. See http://www.fee.org/vnews.php?nid=5192 Mandatory seatbelt laws came as a result of Dole's blackmail against the automakers, threatening them with an airbag mandate unless seatbelt laws were enacted.

Poor suckers, they thought they could trust a government bureaucrat, but wound up screwed with the airbag mandate anyway.

Insurance companies' costs are massively increased by airbags - they are required by law to be original equipment, and a single fender bender with no injuries can rack up thousands of dollars in airbag repair costs alone. See http://www.lemurzone.com/airbag/cost.htm for an example scenario calculating nearly $4,000 to repair the airbag system on a 1994 Taurus.

What's the result? Poor people can no longer afford cars.