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From: sukenick@ccnysci.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Re: If you could save lives, would you?
Message-ID: <158@ccnysci.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 19-Sep-85 13:26:22 EDT
Article-I.D.: ccnysci.158
Posted: Thu Sep 19 13:26:22 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 25-Sep-85 08:01:35 EDT
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Reply-To: sukenick@ccnysci.UUCP
Organization: City College of New York
Lines: 13
Keywords: airbags , seatbelts
Summary: 

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>>   power. On this day and at this moment, people are being smashed to death    
>>   inside their cars when their lives could be preserved by air bags. 
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>Apparently seat belts with shoulder harneses are safer since they protect
>against multiple impacts where an air bag would deflate, they protect
>against lateral forces where an air bag does nothing, and they can be

 Also, air bags are not very effective UNLESS you also wear seatbelts.
 Without seatbelts, you tend to slip under the air bag in a crash.

					- GDS