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Originally Posted by Firebird92

well i could see a seatbelts for old cars like my grandfathers 1966 firebird if you go without a seatbelt in that thing your eating dash and some steering wheel leather, i would hope to fly out the window instead, lol but for really seat belt is the only thing keeping you alive in an accident if you don't have an airbag

but for these new cars with like 20 airbags and curtain side airbags auto braking a seat belt is just why brother to me,

Originally Posted by PolarBear

Actually Insurance prices have been going down and I doubt HIGHLY that is has ANYTHING to do with seatbelt laws. With the influx of new auto insurance carriers the market is forced to have competative rates, which is forcing existing carriers to lower price and reduce profits. Until recently an auto insurance carrier would try every which way to bone you on your premium. After I switched to the carrier I have now my rates actually became reasonable dont tell me seatbelts have anything to do with that.



Then you should also feel that motorcycles should be illegal, IMO Motorcycles are WAAAY more dangerous than not wearing a seatbelt.



You could not have said this any better. I agree with all you have said here. I have been in at least 5 accidents in a car and not one of them involved the seatbelt protecting me.
IMO people are complete morons and can not control the vehicle. Most of my accidents have been low speed ~35 mph or less and I did not even come close to needing the seatbelt. People ARE morons and do not know what to do in the even that the vehicle has a problem at high speed. I had not one but two tire blowouts on in on of my other cars, I easily and safetly come to a stop on the highway with no problem. Most peoples knee jerk reaction is to slam on the brakes and this causes issues.

Call me what you will (and I know you feel free about that already Scott ) but I only wear my seatbelt because I dont want points and tickets. And if we are on the subject about the taxpayers shelling out money for stupid people, we should not allow people to willingly and knowingly put poison into their body, outlaw smoking. It smells, contributes to pollution in more ways than one and it causes cancer, people know it and they do it anyway. I fail to see how this is ANY different than a voluntary seatbelt law.

Ok, now to both of you: Whats happens when you're going 70mph, and weigh 160 pounds and crash? The answer is 2278.4 kilogram-meter/second^2. How do you think an airbag, the windshield, or your face, would feel about getting hit with over 5,000 pounds of force? If your answer is "fine" by all means, don't wear your seatbelt for safety.