On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 04:20:12 GMT, wrote:

One of the most telling things to come out of the recent (post-1997)
debate on air bags was the safety mavens unflinching opposition to
installing an 'off' switch so people could turn them off if they
desired.

They much preferred trying to work around the fact that air bags can
kill or injure you to allowing you the choice of not using them.

I don't like legislated seatbelt use and would prefer to
have "off" switches for air bags - kinda help Darwin along -
but the choice is *not* betw airbags causing harm vs not
using them.