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From: ssp@sun.uucp (Stephen Page)
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: Re: If you could save lives, would you?
Message-ID: <2802@sun.uucp>
Date: Sun, 15-Sep-85 23:01:26 EDT
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Posted: Sun Sep 15 23:01:26 1985
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>   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.
>   (lots of other stuff).

Yes, but 9X% of them weren't wearing seatbelts.  I'm not interested in
paying a few hundred dollars more for a car, plus the extra costs due
to the increased weight and maintenance (if your air bag isn't working
you won't know until it's too late) for a device that's mostly to help
out those crazy enough not to wear belts.  And I'd be terrified that
the damn thing would go off at the wrong time (which is any time apart
from during a head-on collision) and knock me out and/or make me lose
control of my car.

Why not make air bags an option?  Answer: Mercedes-Benz and ?? some
domestic automaker did, with very few takers.  "Yes, but they charged
$600 for them".  So?  Wear a seatbelt for free.

My formula: compulsory seatbelt laws, tough anti-drunk driving measures,
	    and a selective 70 mph speed limit.  But what do I know?

Stephen Page	{ihnp4,decwrl,ucbvax}!sun!spage

Proof that perfection is attainable: 'Cupid & Psyche '85', Scritti Politti

(some kind of disclaimer that these opinions are my own, not my employer's.)


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