Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!genrad!decvax!microsof!fluke!ssc-vax!uw-beaver!cornell!vax135!ariel!hou5f!hou5e!mat From: mat@hou5e.UUCP Newsgroups: net.auto Subject: Re: YAABA - Yet another airbag article Message-ID: <620@hou5e.UUCP> Date: Sat, 2-Jul-83 19:52:07 EDT Article-I.D.: hou5e.620 Posted: Sat Jul 2 19:52:07 1983 Date-Received: Mon, 4-Jul-83 15:45:47 EDT References: <310@ssc-vax.UUCP> Lines: 33 I heartily agree that we should ALL wear seatbelts. Full three-point jobs. I always wear mine -- I have had a couple of nasty moments taking evasive action when I was damned glad to have the belts. Maybe if I were a better driver I would have anticipated the situation, but I didn't. I did make it out -- or stop short -- while maintaining some control of the car. Without the three-point harness, that would read NO control. Perhaps when people get their licenses renewed, they should be required to watch films showing what happens when you don't wear the belts. As to airbags -- I don't want them. I don't know if all the bad things that are said are true, but I don't want the to pay for them, I don't want my three-point harness taken away, and after the accident which I should expect to happen sooner or later, I don't want to have to replace the goddam airbags when all they did for me was break my eyeglasses! Perhaps the solution is to put laws in place requiring the insurance companies to not pay for medical bills of any individual who was not properly secured in the vehicle at the time of the accident. Try to get that past your legislator (who probably won't wear his belt if you threaten him with defeat in the next election). Politicians can't be for individual responsibility -- it always costs votes. Waiting for a car with Sidewinders attatched for the bastard who cuts into my lane with less thawn two feet between us, then slows down to match the speed in the next lane. Mark Terribile hou5e!mat Duke of deNet