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samstown23 t1_j5fn20z wrote

Reply to comment by JackZodiac2008 in You too could save your children for just $1.88 by sadnlonely916

You joke but this was a real concern back then. Lots of deaths and serious injuries from getting thrown around in the car in otherwise survivable lower speed impacts.

My parents were rather particular about me wearing a seatbelt, even though that wasn't necessarily the norm at the time. Of course 3yo me wasn't too happy about it but that changed after my dad hit the brakes once and I hit the backrest of the front seat. I actually think he did it deliberately to teach me a lesson and it likely wasn't half as bad as I remember it but that was a time when cars didn't necessarily have seatbelts and people came up with the most ludicrous excuses not to wear them if they did.

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AlJameson64 t1_j5fl1sn wrote

Reply to comment by zonggestsu in You too could save your children for just $1.88 by sadnlonely916

In the simplest physics of a a front-end collision with an immovable object, the baby would go from resting point to 90 degrees at the speed the car was travelling; that's true. However, now the baby has angular momentum equal to that speed, and nothing would stop it rotating at the 90-degree point. If there's enough distance from the anchor points to the roof, it would spin all the way around, repeatedly until air resistance and friction slowed it to a stop. If not? Yeah, it would stop at the roof of the car.

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