> as well as massive amounts of cost to the tax payer
I just have a problem with this statement because this sounds like just-world attitude. I think there is still a meaning that people do chime in money for the society as a whole (but I am not in favor of socialism myself, and I am not happy about having at least 1/4 of my paycheck deducted for a dozen of tax reasons). If we were to argue about tax payer money, I think everyone is sharing some dimes, even if his whole family has been paying taxes for others' mistakes.
Is there a country where seat belt is mandatory in every seat in the car? A lot of private shutel buses don't even come with seat belt when I look for one!
Busses are designed in a way in which adding seat belts would be more harmful. It has to do with a combination of the seat in front of the person, how the seat they are sitting in is made to be very strong but collapse forward where the front seat acts as an airbag of sorts.
There is a How it's Made episode on school busses that explains it in short detail.
I can say, in my area, public transportation has never had sear lets, and do not to this day. The school busses are still all very old, and I doubt they have them. They did not when i went to school, and I don't see retrofitting them without full seat replacements as they are designed to break away and assume you are not connected to the seat.
Oh i have no issue with the money being paid. I'm proudly socialist, and i'm glad that such a thing exists.
That said, i do consider it the duty of any civilized country to make seatbelts mandatory where reasonable, in order to protect the country as a whole against the stupidity of a few, and that with almost no cost to boot.
I don't know about country wide, but Calif. has mandatory seat belts, I think $50 a ticket, and doubling each time thereafter. Though I have gotten about 5 seat belt tickets when the law first went into effect and it was always just 50.00 and does not affect your insurance or driving record. Things may have changed since then, that was a long time ago.
I don't personally agree with them, there are cases where not wearing them save you. Mt brother was tossed out of the windshield instead of getting crumpled into a small box of metal that was once a car.
Motorcyclists would be hitching a ride on a death trap if they were strapped, whereas, even at 50+ you can, if practiced, sort of roll out of a fall and you just slide on the pavement. You may get a little banged up but rarely a trip to the hospital. Impact another car or object and you are probably screwed, but I would say no more screwed than being in a car and getting tossed out the window at 50+mph.
I always felt it my decision to handle my life how I desire, so if I want to die and don't care, I can not wear my seatbelt, if they catch me, I am happy to pay the fine.
I have since long ago just started wearing it as every car I get into I get told to put it on, so it has just become habit. But I hate the way they ride on my neck, tighten on my stomach, and are generally restricting and uncomfortable. I spend more time adjusting with my eyes off the road than is probably safe, and this can't be don't pre-driving as belts tend to creep up on my like a loose pair of underwear :)
I just have a problem with this statement because this sounds like just-world attitude. I think there is still a meaning that people do chime in money for the society as a whole (but I am not in favor of socialism myself, and I am not happy about having at least 1/4 of my paycheck deducted for a dozen of tax reasons). If we were to argue about tax payer money, I think everyone is sharing some dimes, even if his whole family has been paying taxes for others' mistakes.
Is there a country where seat belt is mandatory in every seat in the car? A lot of private shutel buses don't even come with seat belt when I look for one!