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From: daver@hp-pcd.UUCP (daver)
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: Re: If you could save lives, would you?
Message-ID: <26400001@hpcvrd.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 10-Sep-85 22:01:00 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 10 22:01:00 1985
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Nf-From: hpcvrd!daver    Sep 10 18:01:00 1985


 >Safety experts claim that each year air bags would prevent thousands of     
 >deaths and prevent hundreds of thousands of serious injuries. ...........
 
Safety experts also claim that air bags are not as safe as seat/shoulder belts
and can even be dangerous in some situations.  Congress has apparently passed
a law which requires that airbags be installed in cars unless a certain number
of states pass laws requiring the use of seatbelts, and a large number of 
states have done so (I'm happy to note that even my mother, who hated seat 
belts and absolutely refused to use them, is now buckling up every time she is
in a car because of the new law).  I personally feel that if people want to
kill themselves they should have the right, but that anyone injured in an auto
accident while not using a restraint device should be limited in the amount of
damages they can collect in court so the rest of us don't suffer from their
stupidity.

Dave Rabinowitz
hplabs!hp-pcd!daver


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