helmets in cars- a right that should be recognized

"Magnulus" > wrote in message
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> "Jim Yanik" .> wrote in message
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> > If you carefully examine the Earnhardt collision with the wall,you would
> > see that the impact was not that big an impact,for 180 MPH.It was a
> grazing
> > impact,too.Other race car drivers have survived worse impacts.
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> I watched the replay of it. The car appeared to slow down a bit, but
> then accelerated into the wall. It was just maybe 20 degrees short of a
> full frontal impact. He didn't just graze the wall.
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> His seatbelt may have also failed in the accident. A HANS device might
> have assisted the seatbelt in keeping him in place. We'll never know
though
> because there was no indepedent autopsy.
>
> At any rate- a typical road vehicle collision is dealing with forces of
> magnitudes less than the typical racecar collision. A helmet for a car
> doesn't necessarily have to be as heavy as a motorcycle helmet, either.
> Nobody will be driving around their cars at over 100 mph, at least nobody
> remotely sane.

What about those in places where roads are designed to handle speeds in
excess of 100 MPH and those speeds are the norm? I suppose those people
aren't even remotely sane being as how they are exceeding the arbitrary
numbers established in the U.S. for revenue collection?