On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 2:25 PM, Paul Stenquist <pnstenqu...@comcast.net> wrote: > Yes airbags have been proven extremely valuable over and over again. When I > worked on Mercedes advertising, I was able to witness some offset and full > frontal impact crash testing. the airbags provided far better head > protection than seatbelts alone. And side airbags and side curtain airbags > have just made cars that much safer. The next Defender, BTW, is equipped > with air bags. The lack of them in the current models wasn't a matter of > intelligent choice, it was simply a matter of inadequate resources. > Paul
Airbags are certainly extremely valuable, but they work much better if the occupant is also in a seatbelt. cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.