Comment on I feel like if asbestos was banned today there'd be a huge pro-asbestos movement
jbk@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week ago
I was surprised to find out that people also were against seatbelts. Weird
Yeah, one of my grandpas always chafed against wearing one, especially the part that comes across the chest. He was always “forgetting” to put it on, and holding it down so it wouldn’t like press against him.
Meanwhile I don’t even think about the seatbelt. Actually it feels wrong if I forget to put it on for some reason.
“ding… ding… ding…”
My mother in law would complain about wearing one while I was driving her around, so I’d just refuse to move the car until she either got out or put the seatbelt on. She wears it without complaining now. I give no fucks if people like wearing it or not, when they’re in my car, I’m responsible for their safety and I won’t have their blood on my hands because they think it’ll never happen to them.
Oh yeah. “You’re safer being ejected from the car in a crash. My cousin’s ex husband’s sister’s daughter survived a crash that way!”
Those people have never seen someone who has been hit by an air bag. It’s not a gentle pillow it’s a punch to the face and if you aren’t strapped in you’re probably gonna bounce around a bit off the interior.
they do make it significantly harder to grab items from the back seats when at red lights, especially if they are the bs locking type.
They do. But for that just pull over and do what you’ve got to do. Stop trying to multitask while you’re in command and control of a device that can wipe out an entire family in a split second of distraction.
ssfckdt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
Oh god yes. They all literally invented a fake illness called “seat belt burn.” I kid you not. And this was the 80s before commercial Internet, so it spread organically.