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"Pete C." wrote:

Robert Green wrote:

Oh, how I remember
the kicking and screaming over seat belts and airbags. However, the data is
in and the bottom line is well-established: those improvements save not
only the lives of reckless drivers, but also the lives of the innocent
people they run into.

Actually, you are quite incorrect on that last part. The data on airbags
has clearly shown that they have taken the lives of a great many
innocent people, not just "small stature" people, but also average
people killed in accidents directly caused by airbags deploying
improperly such as when the car hits a pothole. The data also shows that
many of the people "saved" by airbags would have been better off dead
since the airbag did not protect most of their wrecked bodies (this I've
heard directly from ER doctors).

Especially since the early legislative history of the airbag clearly
shows it was originally the intention of Congress to use them as passive
restraint systems, to save those who would not buckle up. Ooops.

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