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From: jj@alice.UUCP
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Subject: Seatbelts-the disinformation continues!
Message-ID: <4813@alice.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 14-Jan-86 12:27:32 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan 14 12:27:32 1986
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> From allegra!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!ihlpa!ibyf Wed Dec 31 19:00:00 1969
> 
> > I must disagree with you.  The last thing I need in the middle of an accident,
> > while trying to maneuver to avoid other cars/guardrails/etc, is this silly bag
> 
> Wait a minute, the air bag doesn't come out until you hit something, and if
> you don't want you "skills" and "reactions" obscurred by the bag, where
> were your "skills" and "reactions" to keep you out of the accident in the
> first place.  Sorry guys, No validity in that argument.  Try again!
> 
> 
> 					Addison
> 					ihnp4!ihlpa!ibyf

Engage sarcastic mode:

Now, wait a minute yourself.  Airbags blow up at the FIRST collision.
In many, many cases, it's not the first collision that is necessarily
the worst.  Suppose you're driving up Rt. 6 through Loveland Pass,
and somebody rear-ends you. POW!  The airbags blind you and you drive
off the road, and wind up as a projectile falling on Golden.  You land
on the Coor's brewery, in the malt-toasting oven, and are roasted
to death! You're dead and the government-mandated airbags are at fault.
<exit sarcastic mode for a while>

In a more serious vein:
	You're driving on the highway, somebody hits you.  You 
can normally stay on your own side of the highway if you're concious,
indeed most addicents work this way.  If you're NOT concious, or
if you're blinded, you have a good chance of hopping the divider or spinning
in place.  BANG! You're dead!

The whole problem with airbags is that they protect ONCE, in the first
collision, and they're NFG at all in side or (most) rear collisions.
The other car, you're protected from.  The trees, guardrail, the REST of
the traffic, etc, you're not.  ONLY A HARNESS CAN PROTECT YOU FROM EVERYTHING!

Furthermore, a harness doesn't CAUSE accidents, or make them worse.

Ergo, seatbelts and shoulder belts are safer, IF you wear them.
Being required to have airbags is seriously endangering your life.
Requiring them is therefore assault.

Not wearing seatbelts is the (un) wearer's OWN bloody fault,
and that person should bear the burden of their choice to
be suicidal.  

Lessee... First, airbags.  Next, cars are unsafe, ban them.
Trains have accidents, ban them.  Planes crash, ban them.
Walking can cause blisters, ban walking.  Life is dangerous, ban it.

Right.  Sure.  Exit sarcasm mode. (again)


If  you're going to support airbags, at least get your facts
straight, and stop with the misleading arguments!
-- 
TEDDY BEARS ARE SHY, THEY NEED THEIR McVities!
"By the Cross old Andrew wore, By the sword e'er William wore, ..."

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