When I was in the aforementioned military, I was an aircraft mechanic, and did a lot of flying. I noticed that in military aircraft, passenger seats faced towards the back of the plane. This is safer, I was told. The public wouldn't buy it. Dogs love sticking their heads out of car windows and imagine they're running at sixty-five miles an hour.
People face front in airliners and think they have control.
Howard, from his perspective, identifies a real problem, and offers a fix. Still, something is needed. It's also a fact that neither Howard or I can see every nook and cranny from our individual perches. We can see fully only what professionally concerns us. Some regulation is needed even if neither of us see any real point to them.