Chrysler's Marketing Mistakes (Forbes)

Australia's regulation on passenger restraints.

DS

But if you take the same mass and inflate it twice as fast, it hits you in the face much harder because your tissues and muscles have much less time to spread out and absorb the impact.

Sure, but if the computer decides that you weigh JUST a bit too much and it triggers it at full speed...

In the Euro versions, they all go at the slower speed. Last I checked, nobody is complaining about having their faces crushed by airbags over there - and the cars are just as safe IF you wear your seatbelt.

Thanks

I BELIEVE that NEW HAMPSHIRE STILL does NOT require seat belts USE for adults.

I am sure some of you have the tech details but (as I mentioned earlier) Euro airbags do not expand to the same size as US ones and now they also deflate almost instantly to reduce injury. (Is that the case with US devices?)

DAS

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Contrary to what one sees in the movies, the supplemental restraint bags do not remain inflated for more than and instant... in any country.

mike hunt

Dori Schmetterl>

If indeed using a seat belt is a 'legal requirement' as you state, why do the Pennsylvania State Police not stop and cite every driver not wearing a belt?

mike hunt

If the Pennsylvania law is written the way the law used to be in California, failure to use a seat in-and-of-itself will not merit a citation. However, if stopped for another violation it will be added. I think now in California the interpretation is left to the local jurisdiction. Additionally, are there so few vehicles in Pennsylvania to allow each Pennsylvania State Police Officer the time to check each individual driver and still continue with his/her duties?????

Maybe they can't afford to have everyone clogging up the legal system.

Ed

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Less shouting. Thanks. :)

No, they were the last one. A few months ago, they fell in line. Hence, the ads you may have seen about "now that all 50 states require you to wear seatbelts..." that were run by one of the police safety organizations.

Last I knew it was an offense, and I forget the official name for it, that is only cited if you are stopped for another reason. It isn't grounds, in and of itself, to make a stop. This is in PA where I live, I can't speak for other states, although I think NY is similar.

Matt

Yep, we're just a backwoods state with only a few thousand cars and the rest using horse and buggy. But, hey, we aren't going bankrupt like CA! :-)

Matt

Really? When was the last time you checked?

Depends on who "our" is. In some few locales, a seatbelt violation is a primary infraction. Yes, I can certainly see the "whoops, I guess he

*was* wearing his seatbelt after all, but what's this in the back seat?" implications of this, but apparently the legislators who passed such laws did not - or did not care.

Certainly such laws will cut down on the use of old, lap-only belted classics for transportation of illegal substances, although I wasn't certain that that was a problem in the first place.

nate

snipped-for-privacy@lycos.com wrote:

Maybe where you are, but the fine in California is considerably more - and the driver is cited for a front passenger not using a seat belt as well as kids in the back seat.

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You think so, huh??? Just wait!!!

That's cause you don't have Gray "Lies-Worse-Than-Clinton" Davis as your Governor.

About 3 months. Running a small deficit this year, but not anywhere near defaulting like CA.

Matt

Good point! I'm still thinking pre-Rendell days...

Matt