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From: ags@pucc-i (Seaman)
Newsgroups: net.followup,net.auto
Subject: Re: RE: RE: SEATBELTS,DRIVING 55MPH,etc.
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Date: Fri, 3-Feb-84 10:24:11 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb  3 10:24:11 1984
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I am posting this to both net.followup and net.auto.  Please send followups
to net.auto only.

>  No one with a hearing problem wants to sit in a confined space when the
>  equivalent of a twelve gage shotgun blast is set off.  Air bags exacerbate
>  the problem,not solve it.

Where do you get your information?  Have you been in a car in which an air
bag deployed?

I confess I have not, but I saw eyewitness testimony before a congressional
committee.  A man explained that he had been in an accident in which he
was saved by an air bag.  At the time it happened, he was not even AWARE
of the bag.  He figured it out later when he began wondering why he had
survived the crash without a scratch, while his wife in the passenger seat
(unprotected by an airbag) had suffered serious injuries.

I have been fortunate enough not to have been in an auto crash yet, but I
don't imagine that experience does much for your hearing, either.

-- 

Dave Seaman
..!pur-ee!pucc-i:ags

"Against people who give vent to their loquacity 
by extraneous bombastic circumlocution."