Seat belt and shoulder belt...?

I’m going to guess there is a safety feature that will turn off the vehicle once the airbags are activated. There are some accidents where the driver is knocked out. Hopefully engineers have addressed this issue, or maybe this isn’t an issue at all.

 

Or just put it on. What’s the problem with not putting it on? Is it bothersome? Don’t they sell seatbelt tension adjusters?

I’ve thought of some possibilities:

• It’s bothersome.
• I forget.
• I don’t think they are effective.
• I think not wearing a seatbelt is safer.
• I don’t like government telling me what to do.
• Stupidity.

 

I never understood why people find them to be a problem, I guess to each his own but how hard is it to put on and how does it negativity affect you when it's on?

 

The air bags disables the engine, at least on most vehicles,
I picked up a honda Acura one night, that hit a coyote on I-40, both air bags went off. The driver said that was not a good deal at all, one minute he was sitting on 75 and sees a coyote run out and the next he has a busted nose a dead car and had no idea if he was still going down the road or which way he was headed, the bags pretty much totaled the car, because of a song dog. lol

 

Maybe I don't like being tied to my job.
Toomuch trouble to take on and off when I want to go back in the sleeper and fix a sandwich.
Grew up without them like everybody at the time did, and the human race forgot to go extinct, just don't like them, and that is my choice.

 

So it’s bothersome. You should try a seatbelt tension adjuster, and maybe that fixes the problem. I just don’t see how the practice of not wearing a seatbelt is even rational. It takes seconds to buckle and unbuckle, and studies conclusively have shown without a doubt that seatbelt use will overall save lives much more than not wearing them. I mean we have probably spent billions of dollars so far researching their effectiveness and how to improve them. I’m sticking with the experts’ advice. In general, the best advice is to follow the consensus of the experts in their specific fields. Sure, this doesn’t guarantee that the experts will be correct all the time. The goal is to get more correct answers than wrong ones. Getting all correct answers, while it is the ultimate goal, it is unfortunately not achievable among fallible beings.

 

I don’t think it’s a secret that there are cases where not wearing a seatbelt is safer, it’s just that we can’t really have it both ways. I wonder how a vehicle would have to be designed to allow for not using a seatbelt and remain as safe as a seatbelt.

When you think about it, it really does make more sense to have seatbelts to keep the driver in place and create protections around the driver/passengers to keep them safe such as airbags, the frame of the vehicle, the bumpers, etc. By the way, contrary to popular opinion, a car is safer when it is crushable. You don’t want a rock-solid vehicle (for the most part). A vehicle that is crushable absorbs the impact so it’s not transferred onto the driver/passengers, which will result in their death.

 

This is different. The NHTSA, a government program and part of the DOT, is involved in this research. Last year they had a budget of almost 900 million dollars. When was the last time some online survey or pole had this much money on their hands? Probably never.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration - Wikipedia

NHTSA's Core Values

 

You left out "I dont want to so f off."