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The safety features are worth millions of crashes prevented and thousands of lives saved, making them remarkably cost-effective.
Capping the luxury features and size of passenger vehicles would do a lot more to bring down costs than removing safety features.
Dinging noises for seatbelts, for instance. I always wear mine. But I don’t think cars should annoy you if passengers don’t. Or if I put something in my backseat.
I genuinely just want a basic car. No frills. No nav, no infotainment, just a basic radio with Bluetooth. I don’t want lane assist, or for the car to have radar when parking telling me how close I am to the drive thru window.
I absolutely think they should. Seatbelts are legally required to be worn in almost every western country. It isn’t, and shouldn’t be up to you if you wear it or not. And whilst a lot of people do it, something heavy enough to trigger the seatbelt sensors should absolutely NOT be unsecured in your passenger seat, because it absolutely IS going to turn into a lethal projectile if you crash. Heavy items need to go in the boot, tucked in the foot space, or be belted in.
A crash without seatbelt is going to lead to far worse injuries, which will put a bigger strain on emergency services, hospital infrastructure, you’re more likely to require organ or blood donations for injuries that could have been trivially avoidable, blood an organ which are already in short supply, and then can’t be used on someone who actually COULDN’T have avoided their injuries, and the accident can be far, far, far more traumatising and mentally devastating for others involved if you go flying 10 m through your windscreen and your mangled body wraps around a tree.
If you’re willing to accept all that just because you don’t like a bleeding seatbelt, frankly you deserve more than to be dinged at.
So you think it’s smarter to wear a seatbelt, you wear yours but are somehow annoyed that it might ding at someone else for something you yourself think is unsafe and wouldn’t do? Let’s ignore the fact it’s law to wear it in almost every state let alone city. I for one don’t want to have someone turn meat torpedo and kill themselves let alone someone else.
The backseat warning is so kids don’t get left in the back as easily and neglectful parents have an extra step to ignore which plays against them in court. Are you somehow for some reason for children playing pizza oven because their parents neglected them?
I’m just curious, are you also against it being illegal for fridge doors to be produced with a latch that only operates from outside the fridge?
Yes. Or for my backpack thats in the backseat and sitting just right to trigger the sensor.
Don’t misconstrue my words to say I’m for roasting kids. But I am against the constant alerts without any means to turn them off.
That’s a ridiculous false equivalency. The things I’m against are annoyances, not trapping people in cars.
Cars make noises for fucking everything now. I’m not against rear view cameras on the surface. But mandating things like that also mean mandating a screen in the car, usually the infotainment system. And I prefer cars without screens.
Any single thing, I’m not particularly against. But it’s been a cumulative effect where there are too many things where I can’t make a decision on how an object I bought and own behaves.
It’s shit like not letting me, as a passenger, use half the damn infotainment because the vehicle is in motion.