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@MrBrownstone "Useless" is something with 0% effectiveness. Any number between 0% and 99% isnt't the same as 0.

Not rocket science, really; it's evident a lot of people seriously need to retake elementary school.

@Elessar If you can still get it,it’s useless.

@MrBrownstone Yup

@MrBrownstone Did you remove brakes from your car because you can still crash even if you have them, making them "useless" by the very same logic?

@Elessar brakes are for stopping or slowing down....not crash specific. If brakes were claimed to stop crashes, that'd be a different story.

@MrBrownstone No, if they didn't do so it would have overwhelmed our hospitals and many many more would have died.

@SW-User Okay, and what would you slow down for? But anyway, you can use seatbelts for the very same analogy, or airbags; you can still die in a crash in spite of having both, and they're still not deemed "useless" by anyone sane of mind who don't want to turn into marmalade.

@Elessar I use brakes for roundabouts, stop signs and lights, yield signs, to park, etc... they are not claimed to prevent crashes as their main use....
Face masks and all those vaccines and boosters really didn't live up to what they were claimed to do.
I don't want to argue it again. We all have our own ways of seeing things.

@SW-User You slow down at roundabouts, stop signs, lights, yield signs precisely not to crash into anyone or anything.

But as I said, you can replace brakes with seatbelt and airbags and the equation remains true.

@Elessar As I said, don't want to argue it again. Seat belts are worse for me to use than some others.
Airbags scare the hell out of me....
"These bags actually inflate immediately during a sudden car crash, aiming to prevent people from hitting their head in steering wheel or windshield. However, things are not same for the adults with short height. To comprehend the connection between car airbags and short people in a better way, let’s explore the reasons endangering “No-so-tall” people’s safety."

So, maybe one size is not a great fit for all... on anything and everything.

@SW-User Risk reduction is a matter of percentages, not feelings or opinions. Seatbelts effectiveness is measured with a number, airbags effectiveness is measured with a number and vaccine effectiveness is measured with a number. All three of them are determined sperimentally, in multiple independent settings scattered all across the world, and all three of them consisently demonstrated to pose a much lower risk than the event they're designed to protect the user or recipient against.

Also I'm not the one arguing here; you've hijacked the thread, throwing the stone and now retracting the hand. I was "arguing" with someone else.

@Elessar Brakes stop a car. They don’t prevent accidents.

@MrBrownstone Braking a car prevents accidents, or we wouldn't brake at all only for the purpose of slowing the travel.

@Elessar Seatbelts and airbags don’t guarantee you won’t have an accident or be killed.

@Elessar It slows the car down

@MrBrownstone Exactly my point, and similarly to vaccines they still aren't "useless", nor you'll advocate removing them from your car if you have any sense in your brain.

@MrBrownstone Yes, and what for? Not to crash against other drivers, people and objects.

@Elessar So when you come to a stop sign you use the brakes for????

@Elessar Okay, so an opinion is "throwing stones". I'm done. I tire of this site where opinions equal throwing stones and is also ignored because it isn't what another agrees with.
50 hours left to go. I won't touch another topic like this in that time.
Bye now.

@MrBrownstone Not to crash against anyone coming from the other road? Do you think they place STOP signs just for the sake of annoying road users?

@Elessar How do you know if someone else is coming?

@MrBrownstone If hypothetically we had a transportation system with zero chances of collision do you think it would have STOP signs?

@Elessar I don’t live in hypothetical. I live in reality

@MrBrownstone I don't live in hypothetical either, since COVID kills and road crashes kill too, you get both vaccines and brakes/seatbelts/airbags. Complain to the moon as much as you want, it is what it is.