I think that what Grant is driving at is that while seatbelts and other
safety improvements have gone a long way to save lives (in cars,
sorry) helmet technology simply has not advanced that far and is being
applied as a panacea to tell people they are "safer" when in fact they are
probably not.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/1999/jun/15/healthandwellbeing.health1



Like I have said, I wear one but I also ride cautiously, I have a family
that needs me at home so they can annoy me about how I ride too much....

On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 4:06 PM, Peter Morgano <uscpeter11...@gmail.com>wrote:

> I think that what Grant is driving at is that while seatbelts and other
> safety improvements have gone a long way to save lives helmet technology
> simply has not advanced that far and is being applied as a panacea to tell
> people they are "safer" when in fact they are probably not.
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/1999/jun/15/healthandwellbeing.health1
>
> Like I have said, I wear one but I also ride cautiously, I have a family
> that needs me at home so they can annoy me about how I ride too much....
>
> On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 3:58 PM, Steve Palincsar <palin...@his.com> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 2012-07-24 at 12:47 -0700, Jim Cloud wrote:
>> >
>> > I also don't agree with Grant that wearing a helmet necessarily
>> > promotes a riskier still of riding.  I've ridden both without a helmet
>> > and with a helmet, and I don't believe that my riding style changes
>> > one iota.
>>
>> Were the "safety equipment begets riskier activity" argument true, when
>> we look back on driving cars in the 1950s -- back in the days of
>> spear-you-through-the-chest steering columns and steel dashboards with
>> big knobs that would smash your skull and no seatbelts so you'd go
>> flying through the windshield or into the dashboard or get impaled on
>> the steering column -- you would expect to see safer driving habits than
>> you see now.  And those of us who were there can tell you with
>> authority, there was no such thing.
>>
>>
>>
>>
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