Comments by "Faithless Hound" (@faithlesshound5621) on "1983: SEAT BELTS become COMPULSORY | BBC News | Retro Transport | BBC Archive" video.

  1. The first horseless carriages were mostly open-topped. People who used the new enclosed cars must have missed the freedom of feeling the wind in their hair.
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  2.  @itskarl7575  Feeling free (or not).
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  3. Two decades earlier the same sort of people were yelling about the breathalyzer. Right wing newspapers bemoaned the loss of the Englishman's age-old right to drive home after downing a few pints in a country pub.
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  4. Twenty years earlier, a few people claimed that they drove better after a drink, since it reduced their anxiety behind the wheel.
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  5. Go back another century and rich men put on a "smoking jacket" when they felt the urge and went to the "smoking room," which was reserved for adult males and might house illustrated art books. After heavy smoking became common we were all subjected to smoke from cigarettes, cigars and even pipes.
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