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Originally Posted by Ducay
The underlying point is that no, you're not using all the safety features available to you when driving a car. You could add a helmet to the mix and be even safer. Not wearing a helmet while driving, when a perfectly good one is hanging right there in the garage, right beside the car, is being super stupid.
Its all rhetorical really. Again, everything has risk and benefit tied to it. Ultimate safety would involve doing nothing in life. Who knows where the line is to be drawn. For some tobogganing is risky enough for a helmet, some it isn't.
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With a car you're using multiple safety systems and devices that protect someone from injury. A helmet doesn't have as much marginal utility when you consider everything else in place.
When tobogganing, you go from zero safety equipment in place to one.