Comment on Wear your seatbelt

Trex202@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• BenVimes@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I have been the passenger in a vehicle where the driver didn’t wear their seatbelt, and they drove 30 minutes down the highway with the chime going. I think he may have been partway deaf due to using power tools without ear protection, but now we have two data points in a trend.

  Considering he was a smoker too, I wonder what his life is like now 15 years later.

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  • LePoisson@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Considering he was a smoker too, I wonder what his life is like now 15 years later.

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• sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  They literally make and sell just, standalone seatbelt fasteners, with no attached seatbelt, to ‘solve’ this ‘problem’.

  IMO, anyone who owns one of those should have their liscense revoked, forever, full stop.

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  • BigBananaDealer@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    some of them also have a bottle opener which is super convenient

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    • lka1988@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That’s actually how they are sold to get around the “bypass” function. Like how single roses in gas stations are sold in conveniently shaped glass containers. Or vape batteries being sold as “soldering irons” with a shitty soldering tip that doesn’t even work.

      Point: it’s not a bottle opener. It’s a seatbelt bypass with plausible deniability.

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      • UntouchedWagons@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Is the conveniently shaped glass container a bong?

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    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Fantastic.

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  • Asidonhopo@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What if you have something heavy that you’ve put on the passenger seat and the car won’t shut up about it? Another useless safety feature that adds to the price of cars.

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    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Put the seatbelt around it, click it in.

      If its that heavy, it can probably do some damage in say, a sudden stop or turn or collision… strap it in.

      This really is not that complicated.

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      • Asidonhopo@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        My laundry is not going to cause any danger with in-town driving, and the basket is too broad to put a belt around. It’s a stupid feature, but hey I’d be willing to get rid of airbags too so I imagine we are on opposite sides of the safety spectrum.

        Read just now that seat occupancy sensors are required in new vehicles, disgusting. Never buying a newer car, will be repairing my current one til it turns to dust.

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• SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The same people buy fake seatbelt clips to stop the warnings.

  At least they are mostly just endangering themselves, as long as they don’t turn into a projectile during a crash

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  • whimsy@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Also doubles as a bottle opener for all your alcohol consumption needs

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    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Driving alcohol consumption needs

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  • lka1988@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    At least they are mostly just endangering themselves,

    Until they have a passenger. Then they become flying projectiles.

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    • SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      … Which I state in literally the other half of the sentence?

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      • lka1988@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        …

        Apparently my reading comprehension is hard 😑

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• fibojoly@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I had tires on my seats without seat belts last time. Fifteen fucking minutes of ringing. At least I know to put them tyres their seat belts on for next time, I can promise you that.

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• StarvingMartist@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I disabled my sides warning because it’s fucking annoying, I kept the passenger side enabled because there’s no guarantee they’ll actually put it on like I do

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