Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site utah-cs.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!pwa-b!utah-gr!utah-cs!coller From: coller@utah-cs.UUCP (Lee D. Coller) Newsgroups: net.consumers Subject: Re: If you could save lives, would you? Message-ID: <3466@utah-cs.UUCP> Date: Mon, 9-Sep-85 02:38:25 EDT Article-I.D.: utah-cs.3466 Posted: Mon Sep 9 02:38:25 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 12-Sep-85 21:46:17 EDT References: <2778@harpo.UUCP> Reply-To: coller@utah-cs.UUCP (Lee D. coller) Organization: Univ of Utah CS Dept Lines: 20 Summary: In article <2778@harpo.UUCP> jad@harpo.UUCP (jad) writes: > > If you had the power to save lives, would you do it? You and I do have that > power. On this day and at this moment, people are being smashed to death > inside their cars when their lives could be preserved by air bags. We are Why don't we work on getting people to wear their seatbelts first. Airbags are only effective in head on collisions, seatbelts are effective in almost all accidents. Messages about "my third cousin was killed in an auto accident, if he hadn't worn his seatbelt he would have survived." To /dev/null please. For each report of this I can find many accidents where the opposite is true. -- -Lee UUCP: {ihnp4, seismo, hplabs, decvax, arizona}!utah-cs!coller ARPA: coller@utah-cs <<>>