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From: pagiven@drutx.UUCP (GivenP)
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: re: auto occupant positions
Message-ID: <1846@drutx.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 22-Jan-85 16:56:42 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan 22 16:56:42 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 23-Jan-85 08:23:03 EST
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I would think that the safest car seat arrangement would be to  have
the  passenger  seats facing backwards. This would be safer for the
driver also, but might make steering a little awkward :-).

This might be anti-social for the rear  seat  occupants,  but  just
think,  the  front  seat  arrangement  would  look  like  those old
fashioned love seats!

I heard that rear-facing seats were once proposed for airplanes  to
keep the passengers safer in the event of, how do the flight atten-
dants put it? An unscheduled landing?  But that the idea was vetoed
because the public would refuse to ride backwards!

Any Boeing, Lockheed, or NASA types out there care to comment?

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 Paul Given             {ihnp4, houxe, stcvax!ihnp4}!drutx!pagiven
              AT&T Information Systems Laboratories
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