Originally Posted by
Cyclosaurus
Of course I agree that you would need crash helmets similar to what race car drivers wear. But I don't agree that seatbelts + helmet are not better than seatbelt alone.
According to the CDC, car crashes account for about 26% of the approximately 50,000 traumatic brain injury deaths in the US. So that's 13,000 deaths. If you could reduce that by 20% with helmet wearing, you'd save over 2500 people.
Assuming perhaps that people who suffer fatal head injuries despite seat belts and airbags do not suffer any other type of traumatic injury from such horrific collisions and that helmets would actually do much good in such a collision.