• मुक्त@lemmy.ml
    18·
    3 years ago

    If you don’t wear seatbelts you can hurt other people in the car.

    Good point. But then, seatbelts mustn’t be compulsory for people driving alone.

    If you don’t have vehicle insurance and you injur someone they won’t have any payout on top of being injured.

    They still have some solid options:

    1. Asking me/my estate to pay. Suing me to bankrupcy in case I fail/contest.
    2. Being insured themself for accidents.

    In money terms, the business of insuring cars is mostly about repairs of cars.

    • uthredii@lemmy.ml
      6·
      3 years ago

      Not using a seatbelt will still increase the chance that you are injured. This will put a burden on society.

      Asking your estate to pay is useless if you have no money, insurance claims can reach the millions which most people can not afford. Pedestrians and cyclists aren’t and should not need to be insured.

      • GadgeteerZA@lemmy.ml
        3·
        3 years ago

        Yes, we have private and free public healthcare. So great if it’s the rich not wearing a seatbelt, they have to pay for their healthcare. But poorer people (or those without health insurance) have to be paid for by the taxpayer…

      • मुक्त@lemmy.ml
        12·
        3 years ago

        Not using a seatbelt will still increase the chance that you are injured. This will put a burden on society.

        As long as I am not property of society, this does not cause a moral problem.

        Asking your estate to pay is useless if you have no money, insurance claims can reach the millions which most people can not afford. Pedestrians and cyclists aren’t and should not need to be insured.

        If I have no money, I can’t get insurance or car either. Also, this is s pragmatic issue, not a moral one.

    • CarrotsHaveEars@lemmy.ml
      3·
      3 years ago

      If you get thrown out of the vehicle, your body can still knock out some pedestrians. Your blood on the road would be hard to clean up.

      And people are dumb. Better enforce something if it’s serious, like masks.