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by coldtea 2789 days ago
>For me it's like saying "sure you won't remember to fasten the seatbelt on your car, ride after ride, once you are an experience driver?". Well, you can be damn sure I will ;)

I'm not sure about this example. All around the world tons of people don't fasten the seatbelt (and many more wouldn't do it if there weren't fines).
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perl4ever 2788 days ago
That doesn't mean it can happen at X% probability to everyone. Seatbelts on modern cars, of course, have warning lights and beepers. I never put my belt on before turning the car on, but I never take a trip without it. It's not really a matter of memory, because if I found myself driving without a seatbelt and no memory of how it happened, I'm still conditioned to feel naked.

I wonder if there are really a lot of people who are sensitive to the risk of a fine but not the risk of injury or death.

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coldtea 2788 days ago
>Seatbelts on modern cars, of course, have warning lights and beepers. I never put my belt on before turning the car on, but I never take a trip without it

A popular accessory in some countries is a seat-belt "buckle" without the belt. You use it to silence the "seat belt unfastened" beepers.

https://www.ebay.com/bhp/seat-belt-alarm-stopper

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