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"Vibrating Seatbelt" * UK ... OK ??? ...
... a study conducted by Oxford University UK -Biglorryblog -22 Mar 2007: -- A story in yesterday's Daily Telegraph (UK) said that one in seven road crashes could be prevented if only the driver had been wearing a 'vibrating seatbelt'. It appears that 'mutiple warning signals', including vibrating seatbelts and 'directed alarms' (presumably along the lines of 'Oii! Birdbrain!--you're going to hit the car in front!!) are the way to cut the number of road crashes and according to a study conducted by Oxford University such fittings could speed up a driver's reaction time by almost half a second, thereby reducing rear-end shunts by 60%. Of course you could simply leave a greater gap between you and the vehicle in front but...nah...where's the fun in that?... Meanwhile, Biglorryblog has an even better idea. Such seatbelts should not only be mandatory on all 'hot-hatchbacks' driven by pimply youths... but modified so that every time one of them turns the ignition key the inertia reel mechanism tightens the belt sufficiently to strangle all the little stinkers before they create even more mayhem on our roads....harummphhhh....
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