Another example could be seat belts. In the early days new cars had a cautionary light on the dash to advise you that seat belts were not being worn. As time went by a little light was deemed insufficient and a variety of warning screeches were incorporated into the cautionary mode. Worse, the longer one left the belt unsecured, the louder became the screech. While accepting road safety is not to be underplayed, the idea of being nagged to death by some electronic autocrat grates on the intelligent individual's sense of self. Here in Spain though the law and the car noises seems to conform with EU standards nobody wears a belt in a built up area. Even when driving with our solicitor when we reached for our belts he declared reassuringly "no es necesario". Whether this is the law or just accepted practice we cannot deduce but the laidback attitude seems to dovetail perfectly with the smoking ban.
Evidence of Anarchy? I think so.
Saturday, 17 February 2007
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I believe by law in Spain you must wear safety belts whilsy travellin on main roads or motorways, but they are not necessary otherwise.
Jennifer
I believe by law in Spain you must wear safety belts whilsy travellin on main roads or motorways, but they are not necessary otherwise.
Jennifer
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