Is there really a need to wear seat belts when riding a vehicle? ?

xubonedlak

Yes, there is the impact of the vehicle. The car transfers and dampens the kinetic energy when it crumples. You then move forward to the seat belt. Your organs smacking against themselves and your insides are far softer than the instant transfer on the kinetic energy of the windshield or dashboard to your head.

rhuynh619

Hell there is a need to wear seat belts. When the car is in motion everything in the car as well is in motion and that is called momentum. When the car hits something, lets just say a wall all of the momentum transfers to the wall. One of the thing that will transfer to the wall is you if you don't wear a seatbelt.

ELLE

Homework?

WTF?

A body at rest will tend to remain at rest.
A body in motion will tend to remain in motion.
A body in a car, travelling at speed, will tend to remain at speed even if the car stops. Besides, you can be fined for not wearing a seat belt.

Mark K

yes I think if you crash at 30 MPH its equivalent to jumping out of a 3 story building, so do you think you could jump out of a 3 story building without breaking something, plus in rollovers it keeps you secure otherwise you would be bouncing around in your vehicle getting effed up

trudywarren

Objects are at rest but when another motion occurs this causes a reaction. Personally I was in an accident and the only injuries were of the seatbelts in the back seat cutting into my children. I think adults have the right to choose. If you want to talk of inertia of objects at rest and in motion what about the motorcycle rider getting hit or hitting a moving vehicle and no helmet and he is in motion. Don't you think they should have protection too?

kenbgray

They save lives and it is the law.

Jarluk

Yes it is....

Dan M

Ok so you are in a car and traveling 60mph all of a sudden there is another car in front of you at a stop. You slam into that car and immediately slow down from 60 to 0 in a second. Now there are two outcomes; A: you are not wearing a seat-belt. in a car that is traveling a 60mph, your body is traveling 60mph. when you come to an immediate stop, you body will continue at 60 mph until you hit the windshield, the steering wheel, or even the car in front of you. B: you are wearing the seat-belt, which connects you to the car causing your body to slow down with the car.

Experiment you can try proving what I have just said.
Put a ball in a wagon and push it at a wall. When it hits the wall watch the ball, it will roll around out of control due to the momentum it had. Now do the same thing but tape the ball down, it wont roll around once it hits the wall. The tape is like a seat-belt.

**_**

No need to relate my answer to inertia. The answer is simple. Wear it or die in an accident.

Rach B

I thought that the seat belt was to prevent you from going through the front window, or from smashing your head on the front window, which can accrue when an accident happens at high speed. I definitely see a need for seat belts.

burning brightly

The alternative is a serious injury if you have even the smallest accident seat belts may not be perfect and a nuisance but the alternative is worse.~~

Dr. Strangelove

If your car is moving at 50 mph and it hits a brick wall, the car stops and YOU continue moving forward at, you guessed it, 50 mph.
BUCKLE UP STUPID !!!

metalscorpionhare

http://www.rospa.com/roadsafety/advice/motorvehicles/seatbelt_advice.htm

There's the link- do the rest yourself.

iggnant12

No. Its just another way for the government to get into your wallet and to have more control.

UCANTCME

The safety belt or seat belt is designed to hold you firmly into your seat and keep you from being thrown forward or sideways.

All modern cars come fitted with inertia reel seatbelts which will lock and hold you much firmer.

If you were not held in place perhaps you would hit the dash, or the steering wheel.

The seat belt is designed to distribute the forces to your bones. Your organs and soft tissue are not strong, in fact if you wore the seatbelt across your stomach you could cause yourself serious injuries.

Which actually happened before the shoulder belt was introduced and made standard on all cars.

Seatbelts prevent you from being impaled on the steering wheel or smashing through the windscreen and ending up on the road where your chances of survival are slim to none.

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