VW India selling Polos without airbags

[brad]

it's getting ridiculous here. Every single acronym of nonsense required to cater for the lowest common denominator driver. The mindset becomes it's ok, the car will get me out of trouble if things go wrong.

And many of them are mandatory.

As Hitler said in Mein Kampf
"The best way to take control over a people and control them utterly is to take a little of their freedom at a time, to erode rights by a thousand tiny and almost imperceptible reductions. In this way, the people will not see those rights and freedoms being removed until past the point at which these changes cannot be reversed."

Sounds like Australia to me.

[brad]

Safety should not be the domain of the well healed.

it shouldn't be but it often is - as is healthcare, education, etc. That's how it is (even in Australia) & you're fooling yourself if you think otherwise.

[Tim]

I think airbags in cars is the least concern for Indians.

[sports racer]

You do know the Indian Government has started hanging barriers on some bridges to push people off moving trains to stop them sitting on the roof.

Not sure which section of "Public Safety" this applies to.

[brad]

I'm sure the trains slow down to a gentle trot to allow the roof riders the opportunity to disembark

[Ideo]

I'm sure the trains slow down to a gentle trot to allow the roof riders the opportunity to disembark

Yeah, but airbags are much more important.