The myth that motorcyclists are uninsured and underinsured and will cause a public burden has been seriously exposed as fiction by this highly credible report. Okay, the law was enacted based upon flawed information. Everyone who cherishes their individual liberty, freedom of choice, freedom from governmental intervention should care, as well as those who care about the true effects on motorcycle riders who are forced to wear helmets. If helmets actually provided the protection that some legislators and insurers claim, it follows that fatality and accident rates would be significantly lower in states in which helmet use is mandated. And attempts to draw an analogy between the use of seatbelts and helmets is similar to comparing apples to oranges.
Helmets also restrict vision and hearing, which places riders at a dangerous disadvantage.
Efforts are being made to emphasize the need by automobile drivers to pay attention to motorcyclists on the road in the Department of Motor Vehicles automobile driver handbook. Be aware that legislation is pending which would require horseback riders to wear helmets. But equally, if not more, important is education. However, the pro-helmet law insurance lobby has consistently countered that, training courses have not been proven to reduce accidents. It has not only cost the state millions in lost economic activity and tax revenues, it has failed to reduce or eliminate motorcycle accidents, and it very well may have actually contributed to increasing accident statistics.