Not really. If there's a nut-job behind the wheel of an SUV that broad-sides me after blowing through a red-light, you can bet your ass I'll be glad that the side and curtain airbags were mandated.
Well, in that case, I'll be sure to scan the road ahead, and be prepared to stop during an inetersection
if I see a nut-job running a red-light. No wonder driving takes up so much energy.
If you're in the intersection and someone runs a red you'll see him all right but probably not until after he hits you. Even an extremely attentive driver can't see everything that happens on the road.
Stuff happens, even to the best of drivers.
Ofcourse. But here you're implying that I didn't see him/her before I even approached the intersection.
If someone is going quite fast, enough so that one can accurately judge that they won't be stopping in time, one can easily counter-act and slow down enough to avoid him/her.
But if I couldn't see him at all, then yes, having side-airbags would be much, much helpful. But then again, what're the chances of that happening? 0.01%? I'll take that chance, rather than having to sell my fairly brand-new car, while taking a huge depreciation hit, just to buy another new car with more airbags.
Ofcourse I don't want to be a statistic, but being all paranoid because of lack of side/side-curtain airbags in my car is not the best idea.
Again, let's not act like our neighbours down South.
And just for the record, my next car will most definitely have side/side-curtain airbags as it's better to be safe than sorry.
