Faulty seatbelts, fear, and car seats forever?

[Prudence]

Sometimes I think we have an unrealistic expectation of perfect safety. There's an idea that if we just follow the rules, nothing will happen to us. If we wear our seatbelts, make sure our smoke detectors work, and keep our kids from ever setting eyes on a peanut, nothing will happen to us or our families.

There are no perfect safety mechanisms that I'm aware of. Seatbelts fail. Sometimes people would have been better off if the seatbelt had failed.

I think the bigger problem is the assumption of safety. We trust that our seatbelts will save us and we don't do any research until after. We trust that other drivers will be coherent and act in their own best interest.

The best way to keep kids from being killed in car accidents is to keep them out of cars. Are we prepared to do that? And if we do that, keep them at home, what about the drunk drivers who crash into homes? Move far away from roads? But then frozen airplane waste could come crashing through the roof. The list of possibilities seems endless. The only way to ensure that nothing ever happens to your kids is to never have kids.