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by WalterBright 1434 days ago
Do you know of any such accidents in real life? Do you have any statistics on ejected people causing other accidents?

What about when people were saved because they were flung from a car? Like when the car catches fire, falls off a bridge, goes into the river, goes into another lane to be smacked by a truck?

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I don't feel like arguing because you're "not even wrong" [0] and I don't have time to educate you or find references you'll find compelling. I would be happy to do so if you want to spend several hours educating me on compiler internals, but I think that probably that's the last thing you want to do today.

I hope you do wear your seatbelt, or at least never get into an accident if not.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_even_wrong

You could ask your parents if any of the scenarios they reconstructed were about cases where the person was better off being ejected. Getting trapped in a burning car is a real risk.

https://www.cleveland19.com/story/26647201/neighbrs-watch-a-...

I always wear my seatbelt. Longer than anyone else, probably, because I was doing it more than a decade before the law required it.

I did a course on compiler internals once. It wasn't well received, I'm still not sure what went wrong. I don't really want to bore anyone :-)

It’s a that like asking for all the data on how many people spread polio? Zero! Aha, thus proving the vaccine does nothing!
Um, there are lots of polio statistics.