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From: serge@rna.UUCP
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Subject: Re: PISSED OFF (seatbelts)
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Date: Mon, 14-Jan-85 14:59:00 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 14 14:59:00 1985
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Nf-From: rna!serge    Jan 15 14:59:00 1985

What upsets me is the fact that available auto safety technology
is not used by the car manufactures. I recently saw a documentary
about this car called the Research Safety Vehicle. The RSV included
such features as:
- air-bags 
- energy absorbing collapseable engine and trunk sections
- light weight energy absorbing foam in the body panel voids
- a frame designed to rollover upright without collapsing
- reinforced bars in the door panels for side collisions
- and of course seat belts.
The car was not ugly, it was energy efficient and would carry a
price tag of about 7,000 to 8,000 dollars if mass produced.
Test show that people would come out of 50 mph collision
with a brick wall with absolutely no injuries.

Then there was the case of the women with a used car that, unknown
to her, had had airbags installed during the short time in the 70's
when they were available as options. She hit a truck head on and the car was
demolished. The officer who first arrived on the scene called for
an ambulance to take the bodies away. He was very shocked to see
the woman and her passanger walk away unharmed. Seat belts would
not have saved them.

It would be nice that while the lawmakers are telling us what
to do they could at least do something to get this safety
technology out on the roads.