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From: renner@uiucdcs.Uiuc.ARPA
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: If you could save lives, would
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Date: Wed, 18-Sep-85 12:37:00 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 18 12:37:00 1985
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>  ...However, if i really want air bags (and i do) I CANT GET THEM. Unless 
>  I made them myself, or tracked down one of the few 1974 Ford cars that 
>  had them as an experiment. NOT A SINGLE AUTO MANUFACTURER WILL SUPPLY 
>  AIR BAGS EVEN AS AN OPTION.
				-the venn buddhist (meister@linus)

I will cheerfully support a law requiring the auto manufacturers to provide
air bags AS AN OPTION on some or all of the models they produce.
Providing, of course, that the auto manufacturers are required to recover
the ENTIRE cost of airbags from the people who purchase them.  

Of course, if the entire cost of airbags were divided among the relatively
few people who would buy them uncoerced, airbags would cost over $1000.
Which means that even fewer people would want them.  Which would increase
the per-unit cost.  Which indicates that maybe the market isn't so stupid
concerning airbags.

Scott Renner
renner@uiuc.ARPA
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