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Originally posted by Unit 5302
I will say again, I have no desire to pay an additional 2-3k for my car to protect people who are being stupid.
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Talk about being stupid, read your own comments. Airbags are and always have been designed to be used in conjuction with seat belts, not as a replacement for them.
They were not put into cars to "protect people who are being stupid", they were put into cars to protect people period.
I rarely ever wear my seatbelt (just a old habit, not suggesting its a good idea) and I have been in several accidents, a couple very serious, and have always walked away. There are plenty of stories from state troopers that have seen seat belts kill people, so you never know what can happen in a particular acident involving specific circumstances.
Dark5.0- you might think that airbag saved your life, and it very well might have, but you also might have been ok without it, however hard that is to believe. I should be dead from an accident I had without seatbelt and before airbags were in use, and Im still hear, so you never know for sure. I was ejected through the t-tops (with the t-tops installed) in a vehicle and lived