I think it is entirely relevant to the question. Once again Immortality you have sought to criticise a post of mine for no good reason and with poor logic, why dont you just go and get a punching bag instead, then you take out your frustration without ever having to expose yourself for the fool that you are. Surely this is information that anyone thinking of changing the workings of their car from the manufacturers specs ought to consider. Im not sure that Oakey would have considered the strangulation issue, neither had I until a visit to North America last year and a death from this in the town I was visiting. Many people Ive talked to since have scoffed at it being an issue as well, however, the plain and simple facts are that it has claimed lives that could have otherwise been spared. If you took the trouble to read my post carefully, which you never seem to do, you would have noticed that I mentioned that children should never be left in cars unsupervised.
However, as I also mentioned, and you also failed to comprehend, manufacturers are forced by our legislators to provide things that offer safeguards for those parents who dont know how to properly look after their kids(ie fridges which cant trap people in side, pool fences etc). Whether you or I think manufacturers should be not made to put safeguards into their devices is irrelevant. Hell, you could argue that manufacturers shouldnt have to make them safe in crashes either, we'd still have non padded dashs and non collapsible steering columns etc, its not their fault that people go and drive them into things. Its possibly even there to safeguard yourself, personally Id like these safeguards fitted to my car too. People such as yourself often never look at the big picture and think of the what IFs. ie you park your car in your driveway with a family christmas party with the windows down on a hot day and have wired the windows to be live, a four year old makes their way unnoticed into the driveway and plays with the live windows that you rigged and manages to strangle themselves. Yeh, its not your fault........well a team of lawyers may convince a jury otherwise.....and worse than that you are going to live with the thought of something you did or didnt do being responsible for the death of innocents.