Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!decwrl!wasser@viking.DEC (John A. Wasser) From: wasser@viking.DEC (John A. Wasser) Newsgroups: net.consumers Subject: But at what cost... Message-ID: <388@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Tue, 10-Sep-85 10:33:51 EDT Article-I.D.: decwrl.388 Posted: Tue Sep 10 10:33:51 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 12-Sep-85 21:20:03 EDT Sender: daemon@decwrl.UUCP Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Lines: 23 >Path: decwrl!decvax!harpo!jad >Subject: If you could save lives, would you? >Posted: 4 Sep 85 20:37:27 GMT > > If you had the power to save lives, would you do it? You and I do have that > power. ...people are being smashed to death inside their cars ... > Safety experts claim ... air bags .... prevent thousands of deaths ... > hundreds of thousands of serious injuries... > Please write. No endeavor is more important nor more noble than to > save lives. Since this was posted to net.consumers I hope you don't mind a consumer's question. How much more would I be asked to pay for a car because the manufacturer was required to install airbags that I don't want because I ALWAYS wear my seat belt. -John A. Wasser Work address: ARPAnet: WASSER%VIKING.DEC@decwrl.ARPA Usenet: {allegra,Shasta,decvax}!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-viking!wasser Easynet: VIKING::WASSER