{"id":84,"date":"2006-07-21T20:49:54","date_gmt":"2006-07-22T01:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weeklyrob.dreamhosters.com\/?p=84"},"modified":"2006-07-21T20:49:54","modified_gmt":"2006-07-22T01:49:54","slug":"maybe-the-tundra-isn%e2%80%99t-really-less-safe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/?p=84","title":{"rendered":"Maybe the Tundra Isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t Really Less Safe?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>M<span>y friend Charlie writes to say that my <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/weeklyrob.dreamhosters.com\/?p=80\" style=\"line-height: 17px; opacity: 1\">recent post<\/a><span> about the Toyota Tundra recall misses an important point.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none\" class=\"paragraph Body\">I had mention that Toyota plans to take away the switch that disables the passenger-side airbag when an adult isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t sitting there. This will make the truck less safe for kids, because the airbag is dangerous for them. I also mentioned that the government is partly responsible.<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none\" class=\"paragraph Body\">Charlie says that the Tundra won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be any less safe for kids of responsible parents. Why? Because \u00e2\u20ac\u0153everyone but Britney knows you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t put your kids in the front seat,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d regardless of LATCH systems and airbag switches.<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none\" class=\"paragraph Body\">(I should point out that the back seat of the Tundra does have the LATCH system, though the seats may be too small for babies, who are supposed to face backwards).<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none\" class=\"paragraph Body\">I agree with Charlie that parents should be the third party (along with the Government and Toyota) when talking about the issue. Shouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t they be expected to find out what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s safe for their kids, without relying on Toyota and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration?<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none\" class=\"paragraph Body\">On the other hand, some parents don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know, or don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t care. Shouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t we as a society do what we can to protect kids of ignorant (even willfully ignorant) parents? Is this an issue of personal responsibility, or of protecting the weakest class of citizen?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Charlie writes to say that my recent post about the Toyota Tundra recall misses an important point. I had mention that Toyota plans to take away the switch that disables the passenger-side airbag when an adult isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t sitting there. This will make the truck less safe for kids, because the airbag is dangerous [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}