• Miles O'Brien@startrek.website
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    14 hours ago

    I have sat for nearly 10 minutes while the unbelted person fumed mostly silently

    You get one chance to put it on before I pull the car over and put it in park. In this case I turned the car off, pulled out my headphones, and started watching Lord of the Rings on my phone.

    The best driver in the world can still get T-boned at an intersection or rear ended at a stop sign. I’m the one driving, you will abide by my safety rules. Take your own vehicle or ride the bus if you don’t want a seat belt.

    • kameecoding@lemmy.world
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      8 hours ago

      People really need to watch some crash videos with people without a seatbelt, you become a fucking projectile, I have seen one where two women are sitting in the back one without a belt and she slams really fucking hard into the other one that had a seatbelt, as in you can hear the head on head on contact.

      For frontal crashes if someone is sitting behind you without a seat belt, they will literally crush you to death above a certain speed.