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- From: jlevine@rd.hydro.on.ca (Jody Levine)
- Subject: Re: HELMETS
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.164655.26788@rd.hydro.on.ca>
- Organization: Ontario Hydro - Research Division
- References: <1992Nov19.200105.12133@megatek.com> <BxzJwI.AB@news.iastate.edu> <1992Nov20.000830.20013@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
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- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 16:46:55 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov20.000830.20013@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> cdw2t@dayhoff.med.Virginia.EDU (Clifford David Weston) writes:
- >In article <BxzJwI.AB@news.iastate.edu> tomes@iastate.edu () writes:
- >
- >No one has said that we riders rely on p-vision as the sole or even primary
- >method of information acquisition. The fact that some hazards approach quickly
- >from the side, combined with the obvious advantage of having the widest field
- >of view possible (surely you'll not argue that too much vision is bad), is the
- >prop used to support the rationalization.
-
- The question is, is the benefit really great enough to offset the risk of not
- wearing one? You certainly don't lose any more then you would with the roof
- pillars on cars (and I would say a lot less), and we all know that there are
- more bike accidents per vehicle than car accidents, so there is not a rash of
- accidents due to losing some peripheral vision, so is the extra infomation
- worth the risk of having no head protection should you go down?
-
- Are you more likely to have a healthy life by riding with or without your
- helmet? More specifically, can someone honestly tell me that the vision
- blockage due to the eyeport is enough to make him leave his helmet in the
- box? If not, is it proper to convince people that it *is* sound reasoning?
-
- >The bottom line is, imho, that some people will *always* wear a helmet. Most
- >will usually wear one, some occasionally wear one, some seldom wear one, and a
- >very few *never* wear one. Nobody is any "righter" than anyone else. I'm in
-
- True, but some reasons for doing things are better than others. I don't think
- that the slight loss of preipheral vision is a good reason not to wear a
- helmet.
-
- > Yes, it's safer to wear one.
-
- So the vision thing is not so important after all?
-
- I don't care about helmet laws. I do care about people walking away from
- this group and facing their own decisions about whether to wear helmets. If
- we do think that it's safer to wear one, let's not tell them that it isn't.
-
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