Originally Posted by
mconlonx
Need historical numbers to back that up, because...
I think seatbelts and airbags make you feel safer than you actually are. People drove for decades without them...
Football might be a great metaphor, though.
So your comparing a car wreck to a bicycle accident?
Thats like comparing an airplane to a kite.
The severity of a car wreck is much greater than that of a bicycle accident. And when you factor in a vehicle into a bicycle
accident, which is usually when bicyclist are killed, having on a helmet wouldn't have mattered.