Miata Mailing List: November 1997, Message #96
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From: 	Jeff C Gehrig <miata@ozemail.com.au>

Subject: Re: I'm jumping in with both feet (NMC)

Date: 	Thu, 13 Nov 1997 21:59:03 +0000



scott and woody wrote:



>   Some have reported

> >eye injuries and wrist injuries from their hands being forced off the

>

> >wheel at deployment.  But those injuries are less severe than if

> there

> >would have been no bag, and contact was made with something in the

> >interior--an all-too-common thing in non-airbag cars.

>

> I wear glasses and would much rather not have a bomb explode at 200

> mph in my

> face. I don't much relish the thought of picking Lexan out of my eyes.

> My

> chances of that happening without an air bag are slim. I don't like

> the things,

> though they *are* in 3 of my vehicles. Just my personal paranoia.

> Comes from

> wearing glasses for the past 20 years.

>

> Scott and Woody, who doesn't need any glasses.

>

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   Scott,

            I couldn't agree more, those rotten airbag things were

forced on manufacturers to protect idiots who wouldn't wear seat belts

or legislation to wear seat belts. Those of us who live outside the US,

where the things originated are now forced to accept them, in spite of

having developed the seat belt habit thirty or more years ago. Airbags

are almost as dangerous as the people who caused their invention and

both should be banned from the road. My '99 MX-5 will be disarmed within

minutes of me driving it out of the showroom but I will still have to

subsidise the idiot who thinks he/she knows better than every accident

research authority in the world. Seat belts save lives, has been the

slogan in Australia since the 60's and the statistics can't be argued

with. I resent having to pay for the individual who obviously spends

more time with his tallywhacker in his hand than paying attention to

sharing the road with other people, who above all, have a right to live

without having to worry about sharing the road with morons who couldn't

give a damn about anyone but themselves. I hope that the fool (who makes

Homer Simpson look like a brain surgeon) who drove off after being

booked for not wearing his belt, gets booked every day of his life and

the trooper who booked him gets a commendation for recognising blatant

stupidity. Now, where's my asbestos stockpile? (Actually I'm leaving for

Bangkok shortly so I'm safe until I return in a week or so and have to

download 2k or more messages from the list) Does this guy ever watch

motor racing? Does he realise that racing drivers wear belts for a

reason? I'm in the aviation industry, do pilots wear belts, would he fly

with one who didn't? I've seen people not wearing a belt on an aircraft,

go through the plastic luggage bins when turbulence hit suddenly,

unfortunately, he was not one of them. Fortunately, I live in Australia,

so do not have to share the road with him, without people like him,

there would be no need for airbags. I hope he doesn't think of himself

as an enthusiast.

Jeff