{"id":342097,"date":"2018-01-02T20:18:48","date_gmt":"2018-01-02T19:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/why-are-power-windows-and-seats-allowed\/"},"modified":"2018-01-02T20:18:48","modified_gmt":"2018-01-02T19:18:48","slug":"why-are-power-windows-and-seats-allowed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/why-are-power-windows-and-seats-allowed\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Are Power Windows and Seats Allowed?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t                            \t<!-- S3 Cache --><!-- S3:S3:Non-Original -->\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">It\u2019s surprising the government hasn\u2019t made power seats \u2013 and windows \u2013 illegal. Well, at least not\u00a0<em>yet<\/em>. After all, they are arguably at\u00a0<em>least<\/em>\u00a0as \u201cunsafe\u201d as not wearing a seatbelt.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe it will occur to someone. Give it time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">The argument for requiring the use of seat belts is that you might be thrown about or even ejected from the vehicle in the event of a crash. But you\u00a0<em>might<\/em>\u00a0also drive off the road, into a pond. It\u2019s certainly possible. And if your car has power windows, you will be trapped inside because power windows don\u2019t work underwater.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">This is\u00a0<em>very<\/em>\u00a0unsafe \u2013 at least\u00a0<em>potentially<\/em>. Just as potentially, arguably, as not wearing a seatbelt, given what\u00a0<em>might<\/em>\u00a0happen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Why are power windows allowed, given that fact?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">And the same goes for power\u00a0<em>seats<\/em>. These have the potential to\u00a0<em>stop working at any moment<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 as is the case with any man-made device. Defects happen. Wear and tear is inevitable. And when a power seat stops working,\u00a0there is no mandatory manual over-ride to allow the seat to move. The seat will remain in the position it was in when the motor stopped working. It might be a very\u00a0<em>unsafe<\/em>\u00a0position, such as too far forward or too far back. Surely this risk is intolerable. Consider the children.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmi-gold-silver.com\/specials-silver\/?utm_source=LRC_Text_Ad&amp;utm_campaign=silver_specials\">Buy Silver at Discounted Prices<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">At the least, shouldn\u2019t power seats should be required to have some sort of break-away mechanism in the event the electric motor stops working? On the same principle that all cars are required to have lock releases inside the trunk?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">These, incidentally, must glow, too.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">And why are some cars \u2013\u00a0<em>most<\/em>\u00a0cars \u2013 allowed to operate on public roads without high-capacity brakes? Were you aware that is still\u00a0<i>legal\u00a0<\/i>to sell cars \u2013 and trucks! \u2013 that have drum brakes? Isn\u2019t&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2018\/01\/eric-peters\/why-are-power-windows-allowed\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s surprising the government hasn\u2019t made power seats \u2013 and windows \u2013 illegal. Well, at least not\u00a0yet. After all, they are arguably at\u00a0least\u00a0as \u201cunsafe\u201d as not wearing a seatbelt. Maybe it will occur to someone. Give it time. The argument for requiring the use of seat belts is that you might be thrown about or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-342097","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}