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Air Bags Can Kill - Term Papers

Air Bags Can Kill


Even though air bags are designed to save lives, they can be
harmful or fatal to some people. The National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration has recognized this concern and has made efforts to
reduce injuries caused by air bag deployment by allowing the installation
of a switch that turns off air bags. But in order to have a switch
installed, the driver must file a request for an air bag on-off switch.
People shouldn’t have to seek permission from the government to
disable a device that has been found to be responsible for many deaths
from their vehicles.
According to The Oracle, “Turning off the airbags”,
(http://zephyr.oracle.usf.edu/archive/199711/19971119/19971119-comm
...

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(http://www.cnn.com/US/9711/18/airbags.presser/index.html), if the
owner of a vehicle or a passenger has a medical condition which would
put them at a greater risk from airbags, then they can apply permission to
disable the airbags in their vehicle. This also applies if a child must ride
in the front seat. But it doesn’t protect people who would need to drive
someone else’s car, or people who would give someone else’s children a
ride. It will only protect the vehicle’s owner and immediate family.
Although passing the rule that allows the owner of a vehicle to
disable the airbags is a good start in saving lives, it is not enough.
Everyone can’t have switches installed in their vehicles, just people who
meet the requirements set by the NHSTA. The government shouldn’t
have to decide whether or not air bags pose a treat to individual
passengers and drivers. As Henry Thoreau says in “Civil Disobedience”
Conversations p.642, “government is best which ...

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Added: 1/25/2005 08:43:10 PM
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