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- From: ndallen@r-node.gts.org (Nigel Allen)
- Subject: Re: Seat Belts Releasing in Crashes: Institute for Injury Reduction
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.114729.11841@r-node.gts.org>
- Organization: Echo Beach, Toronto
- References: <1992Nov19.065603.19747@r-node.gts.org> <15572@auspex-gw.auspex.com>
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 11:47:29 GMT
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- >In article <1992Nov19.065603.19747@r-node.gts.org>, ndallen@r-node.gts.org
- >(Nigel Allen) writes:
- >> This is entirely consistent with NHTSA's shirking of its safety
- >> duties under the Reagan-Bush Administration's anti-regulation
- >> policies in the past NHTSA has declared as safe the following, to
- >> name just a few examples;
- >> Cars without air bags, cars without rear shoulder belts, roll-
- >> over prone utility vehicles, rupture-prone fuel tanks, child
- >> restraints without side impact protection, door-mounted seat belts
- >> that open in crashes, non-adjustable shoulder belt anchorages,
- >> lacerating windshields, collapsing seat backs, slack-inducing belts
- >> and antilock brakes.
- >
- In article <15572@auspex-gw.auspex.com> tpickett@auspex.com (Tom Pickett) writes:
- >What is wrong with anti-lock brakes?
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- As far as I know, nothing. I didn't write the original press release,
- but I suspect that the original authors were objecting to brakes that
- were not antilock.
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- My apologies for the confusion.
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- I should add that I consider travel by bus, train or streetcar to be
- significantly safer than auto travel under normal circumstances
- (that is, when the bus driver is selected and trained to the standards
- of a large Canadian urban transit operation).
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