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https://www.treehugger.com/cars/Why-arent-driver-helmets-mandatory.htmlwe know that more people get traumatic brain injuries in cars than anywhere else. And it is not just because more people drive; we know that the rate of injury and death per million hours traveled is actually higher for drivers than it is for cyclists. So why don’t drivers have to wear helmets?
Cycling historian Carlton Reid has asked the same question, and notes that in Australia, car helmets were actually manufactured and sold by Davies Craig, an Australian manufacturer of automotive parts. Reid writes on Motoring, a British car website:
“Commonly a head injury arises when the head strikes the A or B pillar, windscreen, or the head of another occupant,” Davies told me by email from Australia. He added: “Medical treatment is a drain on society.”
The use of motoring helmets is a “sensible concept,” wrote Davies in 1988. The Davies Craig Motoring Helmet wasn’t for motorsport it was for everyday use. The helmet’s packaging featured families wearing helmets while pooling around town, and a businessman wearing one while being driven by a helmet-wearing chauffeur.
Reid wonders why there was never a move to make helmets mandatory for drivers. After all, the logic is identical to that for cyclists; professional racers in both cars and bikes wear helmets, but race car drivers don’t wear fireproof suits and helmets driving around town.
It’s a mystery because surely if such helmets saved just one life it would be worth it? Part of the reason for the product’s lack of success could be the widespread belief that motoring isn’t dangerous to car occupants. “Motorists perceived they were safe, strapped in a steel cage,” said Davies.
Reid, writing from the UK, asks why this is all ignored.
Given that crashing motor cars is the leading cause of death among young men, and that wearing helmets could save lives, isn’t it time the UK Government made motoring helmets compulsory?
Personally, I wish there was a really light, good looking and comfortable helmet that older people could wear while walking; falls and head injuries a major issue for them. Showers are a problem too, killing one American every day; unless you have proper safe showering infrastructure (separate shower with non-slip floor and handrails) lives would be saved if there were mandatory shower helmets.
But lets start with the most sensible target: Helmets for drivers. If it saves just one life….
durrrr, you would be utterly stupid not to wear one in a car...
I am amazed more helmet manufacturers have not tried to market them. When I cycled to school not a single person wore a helmet, then in a few decades they have been a massive success so much so that people are ridiculed as stupid and mad not to wear them, they have they not tried to do the same with many other activities, especially cars, there are more sporting helmets though. I get otherwise intelligent people looking at me blankly when I question their logic and rationale, most who cycled themselves for years when helmets were available, but have somehow been convinced NOW it would be utter madness.
Maybe the manufacturers are all keeping shtum and do not want to ruin the good thing they have going by pushing it too much, "the emporers new helmet".0 -
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I don't see what is so ridiculous about it. People thought the idea of cycling helmets was ridiculous when I was growing up, people were ridiculed for wearing them, the 1 lad in school who had one was bullied over it.prinzeugen wrote: »This thing is turning into a cycle forum debate and it is getting ridiculous when people start talking about driving helmets!
Who knows, in 20 years you might have people calling people mad who do not wear driving helmets. Or pedestrian helmets. I have mountain bike elbow, and wrist protection which I have worn when walking in icy weather.
http://www.copenhagenize.com/2009/08/walking-helmet-is-good-helmet.html
This Danish campaign poster reads:
"A walking helmet is a good helmet"
"Traffic safety isn't just for cyclists. The pedestrians of Denmark actually have a higher risk of head injury. The Danish Road Safety Council recommends walking helmets for pedestrians and other good folk in high risk groups."
The slogan is catchy in Danish since it kind of rhymes. All in all it's a brilliant project. Let's save some lives.
The new walking helmets will be available in the Danish Cyclists Union's [Dansk cyklist forbund] shop. Although, as the Danish Cyclists' Union, the Road Safety Council and Trygfonden have been quick to point out:
"A bike helmet is a fine substitute for walking helmets, so there's no need to take it off when you get off your bike. Keep it on throughout the day for maximum safety."
http://casr.adelaide.edu.au/developments/headband/
The Centre has been evaluating the concept of a protective headband for car occupants. In about 44 percent of cases of occupant head injury, a protective headband, such as the one illustrated, would have provided some benefit. One estimate has put the potential benefit of such a device (in terms of reduced societal Harm) as high as $380 million, compared with $123 million for padding the upper interior of the car. This benefit derives from the fact that in a crash, the head strikes objects other than those that could be padded inside the car.0 -
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