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[–] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago

No, they don't omit seatbelts because of fire safety, and you can tell because their numbers say that including seatbelts would increase the numbers of lives saved.

Who said anything about them being dumb? People said "no seatbelts because fire safety", and a summary of the NHTSA policy rationale saying "seatbelts would save lives, but the money would be better used elsewhere" is a rebuttal to that.

Are you somehow thinking I'm saying the NHTSA doesn't look at fire data?