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[Music] it's a strap that you put around your waist because it crushes your um your body has a buckle and they help you if you're in real bad depressed and you can't get hurt the woman that was a strict safety beltware bought a new car and her webbing pulled out like this like it's supposed to but she wasn't aware of how the pendulum worked and how it would stop her in a collision so she took the car back into the dealer and said i can't drive this car without the seat belt working when she got it back it was the same way well this happened three times she was so aggravated she asked to see the service manager that he would know the most about it she called the service manager said look at this seat belt i can't wear it like this and you're just not fixing it and the service manager said lady there's nothing we can do they're all broken so even he didn't realize how they're supposed to work and which which makes us realize what a a massive job we have and let people understand how they actually work and and that they will work if they're used properly as the retractor sitting in the car it's sitting in this position and the pendulum here is hanging free and as you see the belt it just pulls out freely so when you go for the nana pulls out when you go to move it pulls out but should you come to a sudden staff the inertia will move this pendulum which will lack this belt and hold you in the seat the seat belt is when you put it on and it would save more life which which you think is better getting killed or getting a little stomachy i think getting a stomachache is worse and is better because if you die then you say goodbye bye to your life well actually the belt the way it comes across your torso it comes across the areas that are the strongest and the best equipped to take those loads they can take those loads much better than your skull or your face or other parts of you that aren't going to be restrained can you distribute those across your torso which would be the strongest part of your body then you have the best chance of surviving you had to stop really quick yeah but what happened if i didn't have one on though and i stopped real quick fly through the window windshield yeah windshield and you might hit the traffic light flying through the windshield right well when the car is involved in an accident the first collision obviously is whatever hits another car or barrier but once that happens things inside the vehicle start to move and they're also going to collide be it the passengers with each other or with other parts of the car if you have your safety belt on you reduce the chances of the second collision let's say the light is red they um drive they stop short the child if it doesn't have a seat belt they'll go flying out the window and they'll get ran over by another car uh would that just happen to children or you think that would happen to adults adults too most people are injured in accidents because they don't stay in the vehicle they don't stay in their space if you have your safety belt on then you will stay in your space and if the vehicle maintains its integrity as it will if it's designed according to standards then the safety belt will keep you safe um there's a red light ahead and there's a truck in front of them and a bus in the back of them and the bus can stop in time and it's and you squish the um car and into the truck the headrest is is very important especially in rear end collisions but after you hit backward with such force you're going to bounce forward again and the belt will keep you from bouncing forward out of your out of the spot where it's safe is for you to stay it's also safer for the passengers in the front seat for the for the rear seat passengers to have their seat belts on because in the event of a collision the weight of the of a body in the back seat coming forward can come with such force that it can injure someone in the front seat even when they do have their belt on so it's important for all passengers to wear their belt including rear seat passengers we've heard a lot about airbags are they going to eliminate the need for safety belts no they certainly won't airbags are only effective in half of the the crashes that take place they're not effective in rear end collisions or side collisions they don't really hold the occupant in it's in in his seat you still need the lap belt actually airbags only replace the shoulder belt you still need the lap portion of the safety belt with them my uncle drew he had the spokes right here he had cut off the seat belts they don't like to wear them because they they think it's not comfortable they probably think they're good drivers or something they won't get into an accident they're lazy and they forget maybe they think like that they never can get destroyed like they have 200 lives they think it's dumb and childish to put the things on i've heard a lot of stories about that in the newspaper right now we have seat belts that are are safe we have strict government compliance standards that we certify all of our seat belt components to they have to meet all the strength tests we pull and we push them and we beat them up and we put them through life cycle and we spray them with salt and we do everything to make sure they're strong and they'll live now in addition to that we're making them comfortable so not only are they the safest they can be they'll be the most comfortable they can be too what about people who don't wear safety belts you should go in into jail for maybe like a day a day and a half something like two days the guy pulls up next to you and he's got his wife in the car and two kids in the backseat and none of them have their belts on when i see that it just still amazes me that that people don't realize a danger that they're putting themselves in their family and especially when i see it with children all these people would need to do was see one film of of a simulated accident when we had mannequins in and i'm sure that they would be convinced to wear their safety belts and to put them on their children also the people who made the card and put the um seat belts in there for nothing they put them in there so you could wear them and be safe what do you say to your mom and dad when they get into the car put your seat belts on you'll be safer will you [Applause] how much say a lot please fasten your seat belts please fasten your seat belts thank you you