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From: agj@pucc-i (Mike Proicou)
Newsgroups: net.legal
Subject: Re: Seat Belts
Message-ID: <1103@pucc-i>
Date: Tue, 6-Aug-85 11:21:08 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug  6 11:21:08 1985
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In article <2364@amdcad.UUCP> phil@amdcad.UUCP (Phil Ngai) writes:
>I saw an assertion somewhere (not on USENET) that 1) air bags are better
>than seat belts in protecting against the kind of accidents that seat belts
>are good for and 2) air bags are good in some accidents which seat belts
>can't handle at all.
>
>This sounds amazing (unbelieveable) to me but I'd be willing to listen to
>explanations on how this could be so.

Everything that I have heard about air bags says that they are only good in a 
head-on collision.  Seat belts also hold you in place if you get hit from the 
side or rear and to some extent ( I don't know how much) in a rollover type 
mess.  I suspect that if air bags were so great, auto racers would use them
instead of being strapped into place five or six different ways.  The only 
thing air bags have to their advantage is that they are passive restraints,
the driver doesn't have to do anything to activate them.


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mike proicou 

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