I have always been unhappy with seatbelt laws because I've been wearing seatbelts since before the laws were on the books. I always thought that if you're not intelligent enough to wear them...
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I have always been unhappy with seatbelt laws because I've been wearing seatbelts since before the laws were on the books. I always thought that if you're not intelligent enough to wear them...
Also when I was a kid, most schoolbuses had no seatbelts at all, except for the driver! Now *that* was disturbing. (This isn't slow-moving city buses; school buses go at 55 mph on highways!) They finally required all schoolbuses to have seatbelts in NY in the late 1990s.
Statistics have shown that school buses almost never have accidents where seat belts would be a help. Ignoring the educational value, the money to install them would be better spent on other things that would save more lives and reduce childhood injuries. This came as a surprise to me a few years ago when I saw the research.
Bob and Peter were both very intelligent people.
Yes, and they used them in their personal cars, but just didn't think about commercial vehicles. I was referring to those who don't use them unless they see the police.hcsharp said:Bob and Peter were both very intelligent people.
Using a seat belt in a car is less about protecting you, and more about keeping the car under control and the occupants in the path of the airbags. A helmet in a motorcycle offers some personal protection, but the state doesn't really care about that...they care about preventing you from hurting someone else. Wearing a helmet won't help there, so they have less interest in enforcing it. And before 18 you are a minor and aren't supposed to have enough brains to make your own decisions, such as protecting your brain!What amazes me is the motorcycle equivalent of a seatbelt (helmet) doesn't have the same force of law in most starts. The same state will force you to wear a seatbelt (a good thing) but say once you hit age 18, your skull magically hardens and you no longer need a helmet.