[valbaca]

> It's the same reason you don't need to run a double blind study on whether seat belts work.

We might need some historical investigation into the road that was travelled to get seatbelts to where they are now (physically, legally, and socially). I'm a millennial and I remember growing up where similar arguments were made:

- "If it's my time to go, then it's God's will"

- "It's uncomfortable"

- zero/inconsistent law enforcement

- "If the car rolls over than it can trap you"

To now, where it's entirely automatic and incredibly wild to even suggest being without a seatbelt.

[astura]

Its crazy, I was born in the early 80s and I never wore a seatbelt until I started driving. As a kid I would ride in a van that didn't even have seats and think absolutely nothing of it.

[rootusrootus]

I was born in the early 70s and we always wore seatbelts, for as long as I can remember. Though we did routinely ride in the back of the pickup, which isn't something I see happening much today.

[c0nsumer]

Don't forget the one about how it's safer to be thrown free of a wreck (which will happen if you don't wear your seatbelt) than remain in the car. <sigh>