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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
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Posted: Sat Jul  2 19:52:07 1983
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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