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Gawnsoft wrote:
On Sun, 20 Jun 2004 20:08:54 GMT, "Richard J." wrote (more or less): Paul Dicken wrote: Mention of Mayer Hillman reminded me of a view he expressed in a meeting I attended. He suggested all car bumpers should be made of glass and drivers seated on them. His view was that standards of driving will go up immediately. ... because people driving in a vulnerable vehicle would drive more safely? There is a big difference between 'more safely' and 'absolutely safely'. People drive less safely with seatbelts than they do without seatbelts == People drive more safely without seatbelts than they do with seatbelts. people never have accidents when driving without a seatbelt. I assume that means "not that"; please write in English. Are you suggesting that we should abandon seat belts in order that we should drive more safely? That idea didn't seem to work before seat belts were invented, when occupants used to die by being ejected through the windscreen. Indeed it still happens. We've all read stories of late-night crashes where a carful of young people were killed or injured after they were thrown from their car, presumably because they were too drunk or high to remember to put on their seat belts. You seem to be mixing up 'drive more safely' with 'never have accidents at all', and conflating severity of accident with risk-taking while driving. Well, severity of accident is part of the safety equation. My point was that before seat belts were introduced, there were very many disastrous accidents because many people *didn't* drive safely enough to avoid being thrown through the windscreen. Overall, driving with belts is safer than it used to be, i.e. it kills fewer people. -- Richard J. (to e-mail me, swap uk and yon in address) |
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