Mr Macaw wrote:

On Sun, 21 Feb 2016 23:57:07 -0000, Jamie Kahn Genet
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Mr Macaw wrote:

On Sun, 21 Feb 2016 21:38:31 -0000, Jamie Kahn Genet
wrote:

Mr Macaw wrote:

On Sun, 21 Feb 2016 21:07:11 -0000, Jamie Kahn Genet
wrote:

Mr Macaw wrote:

On Sun, 21 Feb 2016 18:40:45 -0000, wrote:

On 2016-02-21 17:51:48 +0000, Ed Pawlowski said:

On 2/21/2016 12:14 PM, Mr Macaw wrote:
On Sun, 24 Jan 2016 16:08:46 -0000, Ed Pawlowski
wrote:
On 1/24/2016 12:53 AM, nospam wrote:

the key is to *avoid* the collision in the first place.

Yes, but often when stopped there is no place to go. A few
years ago an entire family was killed at a toll booth. Last
year two kids were killed in the car stopped at a light.They
were not belted in. May have made a difference.

Are you a reporter? The media loves to take a few little
uncommon examples and make it sound as though it could happen
to you. It most likely won't.

I was broadsided by a big truck. Minor injury that could have
been worse had I not been belted. That was many years ago.
Car was totaled, I had a cut on my head. Yep, can happen.

Seatbelt + airbag saved me from serious injury here. I was left
hanging from the seatbelt in the upside-down car. When the
airbags deployed, my right hand was blown off the steering
wheel up through the now shattered moon-roof. That chewed my
hand up quite a bit, but that was not what I would term
serious.
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...and it was my fault, I shouldn't have been driving after
working two 20 hour days in a row, I fell asleep at the wheel.
I replaced that Ford Contour with a used Mercedes 560SEL.

Oh look, two examples of it happening. Now find out how many
people never even have a minor scrape in their cars. Work out
the percentage, then stop worrying about it. I haven't built a
nuclear fallout shelter either, and I reckon that chances of
needing one are similar to the chances of needing a seatbelt.
But.... a shelter just sits there out of the way until you need
it. I don't want the inconvenience of putting ****ing belt on
all the time.

I've had a few situations in my life where the seatbelt kept me
from smacking into the dashboard or seat in front of me, when the
driver has had to brake suddenly. I wouldn't have been seriously
injured, but why be bruised and cut, and possibly even suffer
dental damage, without the need?

Braking isn't sudden enough to make you hit the dashboard of the
car. Unless you're a double amputee.

Gosh, it isnt? Oh yeah - your magic that would magically instantly
detect trouble magically ahead of time, make you aware, and have your
arms read to prevent such an incident.

Do your brakes come on before you press the pedal then? Why do you
think you take longer to protect yourself from movement than to press
the pedal?

LOL at your child-like view of the world in which nothing ever happens
unexpectedly.

That's not what I said. Read what I wrote again. If you don't have time
to react, you don't have time to brake anymore than you have time to brace
yourself.

Oh, then you'd consider it wise to wear a seatbelt :-)

One of my sisters was in a rather serious accident and her
seatbelt kept her securely restrained, and her rear passenger from
flying forwards through the headrest and into her.

An ex-girlfriend was in a crash that wrote off her first
Volkswagen New Beetle. Her seatbelt kept her from ramming her body
up into the dashboard and roof (due to the physics of the
particular crash), and the airbag cushioned her head. Side note:
for a little car, her New Beetle did very well at protecting the
occupant, for which I was most thankful given my attachment to the
driver.

Ask pretty much any rational person who has driven or been driven
for years, and they'll tell you of at least a time when being
belted kept them securely in place during a sudden brake.

But continue with your absurd belief that you can somehow predict
when it's safe not to be belted in :-D You're a joke, mate. Worse
- a dangerous joke.

Better not to crash in the first place, you seem to know a hell of a
lot of **** drivers.

Sorry, I dont know a magic that will affect the world arround me and
prevent anything bad happening. Care to share?

Learn to drive better.

Will that magically give me magical awareness of everything around me
even if I can't see it, what other drivers are thinking, and a magical
ability to extrapolate the correct possibility from complex events? Can
you explain how your magic works. I'd love to know :-)

It's not magic. It's called defensive driving, look it up.

I'm unaware of defensive driving providing perfect magical insight into
the world beyond what one can see and reliably predict. I wish to know
more about this sorcery, please :-)

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