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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
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Posted: Tue Jul  5 00:36:47 1983
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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
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