People lashing out against seat belt mandates in 1984.

[Norbert]

This sounds strangely familiar.

&t=131s

I must admit I was reluctant to go along with this because, anyone old enough to remember this knows the seat belts back then tended to be not as comfortable as the ones today.

[lame54]

1. Gary Busey against motorcycle helmets

[brewens]

2. Yeah right. I still have a '81 Chevy. The seatbelts are no problem. n/t

[VMA131Marine]

3. New Hampshire is the only state ...

where seat belts aren’t mandated.

“Live free AND die,” I guess.

[TomSlick]

4. My father still doesn't like seat belts. Then again, he's 93.

He gets really miffed when I will not put a car in gear until he fastens his seat belt.

Even my dad got his vaccination as early as he could. He may be old and set in his ways but he ain't stupid.

[Hekate]

5. I started using seatbelts about 1966, when I started taking rides with a friend whose car had them

I wasn’t used to either freeways or being driven at 70mph then, and it made me feel a bit more secure.

“Uncomfortable” didn’t cross my mind.

[Stuart G]

6. Seat Belts save lives...More recent..bicycle helmets save lives...

With both took lots of time to sink in. Then after a while, stories were told by people whose lives were saved by
both seat belts & bike helmets. On the bike helmet story, I watched carefully when I took walks down a combination
bike path and walking path in a park near by. At first, very few wore bike helmets. Now, everyone does, just like
seat belts. Masks will be exactly the same..that will take time, but it will happen..., and for the very same reason: "Masks save lives as seat belts do."

One added point
... In the mid 60s, before there were bike helmets, I personally knew someone who fell off a bike and had no
helmet and died. Yes, helmets on bikes and motorcycles have saved countless lives. And we all take them for granted just like the seat belts and air bags...

Proof: Look at Auto Deaths on Highways...since 1980 ...With the advent of required seat belts & air bags the number of deaths on highways has gone way down, not up....even though since 1980 there are at least 50,000,000 more cars..

Yes, Take a look, the link is for auto deaths on highways since 1901, pay special attention from 1980 on to present:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_in_U.S._by_year

[Norbert]

7. Ohio in the late 1960s it was normal to have 35 traffic fatalities on a weekend

I lost two high school classmates in the same year.

Sunday morning we had a guy try to negotiate an interstate off-ramp going 85 mph. He went off the ramp and fell 20 feet, landed in the top and the car started on fire. Assuming he wore a seat belt plus the air bags, he somehow was able to stagger away (drunk) with minor injuries. 50 years ago he would have been a goner for sure.