Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/26/83; site ihuxn.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!wivax!decvax!harpo!eagle!mhuxt!mhuxi!mhuxa!houxm!hocda!spanky!burl!we13!ihnp4!ihuxn!res From: res@ihuxn.UUCP Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: Air Bags Message-ID: <269@ihuxn.UUCP> Date: Tue, 5-Jul-83 00:36:47 EDT Article-I.D.: ihuxn.269 Posted: Tue Jul 5 00:36:47 1983 Date-Received: Thu, 30-Jun-83 13:16:23 EDT References: <4721@cornell.UUCP> Organization: BTL Naperville, Il. Lines: 28 I hope that the air bags do finally and perpetually get deep sixed. They scare me s---less. I would rather drive a car with the dash upholstered in broken glass than to have one of those bombs sitting in my lap. If I ever have to have one in a car I purchase, I will have it disabled and/or removed, regardless of the legality of such a move. I am one of those people who ALWAYS uses his seatbelt, regardless of the length of the trip (100 miles, or 100 feet). I got religion when I was priviledged(?) to view films taken of windshield design tests at the University at which I did my undergraduate work. The "dummies" that had to be used for the tests were cadavers ... skid-row derelects whose bodies had been unclaimed at the city morgue, were used for this research, then given a good burial for the valuable service they rendered the rest of us. The films were not very pretty, and it was very easy to imagine oneself in the place of the victim of the crash. I feel naked if I cannot wear a seatbelt in someone elses car (such as the ones that are lost behind the seat because no-one in the driver's family ever uses them). I do not feel that air bags or even seat belts should be required by law. The failure to use them is a problem that will solve itself [ :-) Those who value their lives will use their seat belts, aided perhaps by suitable education. Those who do not use their seatbelts will eventually be wiped out, increasing the safety level of the roads for the rest of us! :-).] Rich Strebendt ...!ihnp4!ihuxn!res