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From: grt@twitch.UUCP ( G.R.Tomasevich)
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Real seatbelts (harnesses)
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Date: Tue, 10-Sep-85 13:03:39 EDT
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> (several race accident survival anecdotes)
> Need I go on?  None of these drivers had air bags.  Seatbelts were
> sufficient in these ultra high speed accidents.

Note that they were real harnesses.  I put 4-point harnesses in my 944.
The main conclusion I reached is that the regular seatbelts are near jokes.
They certainly do not restrain one well under hard cornering.  I use the
harness instead even on the highway sometimes.  Even so, I imagine regular
belts, if USED, are better than air bags.
 
> Maybe I'm cruel and heartless, but I consider highway deaths in which
> seatbelts were not use to be suicides.

I agree.
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	George Tomasevich, ihnp4!twitch!grt
	AT&T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, NJ