I don't think the devil is in the detail with driver seatbelts, but the overall picture; they improve matters for drivers to a degree we're not sure of because risk compensation, but make matters worse for everybody outside the car because risk compensation. Motoring is a highly efficient way to externalise one's costs on other people anyway; less of that would be good.
This can be a controversial subject, but... helmets ain't even a tradeoff - for whatever reason, the things appear to do approximately nothing.
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Date: 2015-04-21 01:07 pm (UTC)This can be a controversial subject, but... helmets ain't even a tradeoff - for whatever reason, the things appear to do approximately nothing.