The one I've heard most often is that it's uncomfortable. I wonder if death is more comfortable?

I did once shoot a story about a guy who survived an ejection. The story I shot was about his very long recovery. At the time we met him, he had already learned how to walk again, but was still having a lot of trouble with vocabulary. Even two years after the wreck, I don't think he was very comfortable.

I always remember this safety video I had to watch where a dude was burned all over his body because he didn't wear the proper safety equipment because it was uncomfortable.

Well stop leaving your car unlocked at the nude beach!

I personally survived a crash that would surely have killed my had I not been wearing a seatbelt. Don't be ignorant, wear the damn seatbelt!

By the way, in the interest of providing a solution rather than just bitching about the problem...

If you find your seat belt to be uncomfortable where it cuts into your neck (a common problem for many twin drivers), consider getting a set of these:

http://www.emdomusa.com/v/vspfiles/photos/EU184-2.jpg

Emdom GT86 Seat Belt Shoulder Pad Set

A member here ( @shiumai ) had a local company that made rifle slings prototype this for him. They made more and started selling them. I have used the seat belt pads you can buy at the local auto parts store, and these are far, far superior, both in quality and comfort. With the red stitching, they look like original equipment, and people who have seen mine are surprised to learn they didn't come with the car.

The only down side (but not really a down side) is that they are made with fabric cartridge loops for you to be able to run the seat belt loop on the shoulder of your seat through. Doing this is supposed to keep the pad and seat belt in place. Unfortunately if you attach it that way, the seat belt does not slide easily through the pad and does not retract, so when you get out of your car you have a floppy seat belt slinging the buckle all over the place. It was a good idea that just didn't quite work.

Easy fix: Just don't attach it that way. They are comfortable enough without being directly looped to the seat, and long enough that they really don't slide down at all while in use. And not having them looped to the seat itself makes it easier to slide them to adjust to your own body.

No you have NO EXCUSE for not wearing a seat belt.

Well, there's that daily trip from mailbox to the house. It's all of 100 yards, and I don't think I'll be killed at 10mph.

Or I'm in the driveway, listening/checking the engine or whatever, getting in & out of the car. Seat belt won't help if the tree falls on me. But no, I'm not going to try this solution. Sounds like an attempt to crash the computer.

The inserting a seatbelt 20 times is a Subaru feature. Most people in the Subaru forums have disabled the chime. It will still do the chime at start up, but not after that.

I always wear my seatbelt driving. But I disabled it on my Subarus so I don't have to hear the stupid chime when I'm working in the car with the engine running.

Darn it, now I know why i alway felt something amiss after I moved to Vegas from Vancouver. Out of all places they need a nude beach here!

He ded

You seriously drive 100 yards to the mailbox?

That's an interesting point. Does it still beep in a BRZ with nobody in the seat, since these seats have a switch to detect when there's someone sitting in them?

I drive 50 yards from my mailbox to the house...on my way home, without wearing my seatbelt.

Not sure if it chimes with no one in the seat. On my Legacy, disabling the chime also disables the chime on the passenger seat. Disabling the chime is listed in the Legacy manual.

Ahh...Darwin at his best.

If you're stupid enough not to wear a seat belt you'll pay the price. But how about the other person involved in the accident that now has to live with possibly being the cause of of your death.

And DON'T TEXT AND DRIVE!!!

I'm still recovering from spinal surgery because someone thought it was more
important to text than to hit her brakes. I've been in pain going on 2 years because of this.

^

For a good part of my first 20 years of driving many of my cars didn't even have seat belts.
During my weeding reception my buddies thought it would be fun to pour confetti into the defroster so they broke into my 58 Chev. What they didn't know was that they screwed up the door latch in the process. Wife an I were headed to hotel and I turn a corner and the door fly's open. Wasn't really in danger but it scared the crap outta me since I was not really held in the car by anything else!


Can't even remember what it is like to drive without a belt now.