Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utcsstat.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcsstat!laura From: laura@utcsstat.UUCP Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: Air bags are reckless endangerment o - (nf) Message-ID: <738@utcsstat.UUCP> Date: Thu, 30-Jun-83 15:42:07 EDT Article-I.D.: utcsstat.738 Posted: Thu Jun 30 15:42:07 1983 Date-Received: Thu, 30-Jun-83 21:04:28 EDT References: <2332@uiucdcs.UUCP> Organization: U. of Toronto, Canada Lines: 16 When my father took his car to the dealership to get the brakes fixed, he had a conversation with the dealer who is interested in whether air-bags will become popular in Canada. The dealer doesnt like them. He has been to a North American car saleman convention however, where he was told to sell cars by advertising "No Seatbelts!" -- not that you dont have to wear them if you have airbags, but at the cars WILL NOT come equipped with them. You will have to order them special. This means, of course, that new rental cars will for the most part NOT have seatbelts. In Ontario we have a setbelt law. However, some of the cars sold in Ontario are made in tthe States, just as some cars sold in the States are made in Oshawa, Ontario. There is a problem when there is more than one standard, from the point of view of the automobile manufacturer. laura creighton utzoo!utcsstat!laura