Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site rduxb.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!rduxb!2141smh From: 2141smh@rduxb.UUCP (henning) Newsgroups: net.auto Subject: Re: Seat Belts - blaming the victim Message-ID: <414@rduxb.UUCP> Date: Wed, 1-May-85 08:11:38 EDT Article-I.D.: rduxb.414 Posted: Wed May 1 08:11:38 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 2-May-85 01:41:32 EDT References: <689@ssc-vax.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Reading, PA Lines: 13 > Seat belt laws are not the answer, although the car makers would like > us to believe it, but safer care are the answer. Let us stop blaming > the victim in this issue. **** **** From the keys of Steve Henning, AT&T Bell Labs, Reading, PA rduxb!2141smh The europeans have developed several of the safest cars in the world. The main design feature that was common to each of these designs was a good, well designed integral shoulder and lap restraint system. This system is used in all aircraft, fighter planes, race cars, and on my stock Volvo. It is called the combination lap and shoulder belt.