Let's get serious for a minute here. Anyone who drives a motor vehicle without buckling their seatbelt is taking their life into their own hands. Claybrook continues to push airbags as an antidote to those who refuse to fasten their seatbelts. In fact, it was that skewed logic that apparently drove her to push for their too-early implementation. We are not saying that unbelted motorists deserve what's coming to them.
Every life is valuable, even the life of someone who ignores all the signals.
But for the government to foist an active restraint system upon a trusting public, and to then promote that device as the answer to all our safety woes when they knew it had serious, perhaps even life-threatening problems, is just dead wrong. Not all of Claybrook's arguments are without merit. Her concerns about unbelted motorists and SUVs are warranted. Unfortunately, her PR capital has been spent. We do know one thing.