While consumer activists pump for another technological fix--smart air bags that can adjust their behavior to the stature of front-seat passengers--more and more of us (perhaps influenced in part by mandatory seat-belt laws in 49 states) are squandering those 2.97 precious seconds and buckling up.
Instead of trying to develop new air bag technology we're buckling our seat belts.
We want improved air bag technology because seat belts are a nuisance.