Seat Belts Are Bad. Just Like Face Masks and Flu Shots.

Rhett Allain
1 min readJul 27, 2020
Photo: Rhett Allain. No, he’s not wearing a seat belt.

I’m not going to wear a seatbelt anymore. Here’s why:

  • The seatbelt is uncomfortable. It rubs weird on my shoulder.
  • I was talking to the guy that changes my oil. He said that he knows a guy that was in a car accident while wearing a seatbelt. The seatbelt didn’t prevent the accident — but he did get trapped in the car because of the seatbelt…

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Rhett Allain

Physics faculty, science blogger of all things geek. Technical Consultant for CBS MacGyver and MythBusters. WIRED blogger.