1) I get the impression that most people do most of their driving alone. And of the people in the car with you, it’s mostly pretty close friends/family, whom you presumably are pretty comfortable around. As for random people seeing you through the window, I wouldn’t think that that’d be too embarrassing, given that it’s so fleeting and that you’ll never see them again. So all in all, I don’t see that there’s too big a downside. Maybe it’s just because it leads to the self-narrative of “I’m a weirdo”?
I happen to take great joy in being contrarian in rational ways haha. So if I drove I’d totally do this!
2) Different way of looking at it (for parents) - would you chose to put a helmet on your child?
(2) Below a certain age, yes (now at least) if I thought it added much safety value beyond a child’s seat. Above this age, his choice but I would offered to pay for it.
1) I get the impression that most people do most of their driving alone. And of the people in the car with you, it’s mostly pretty close friends/family, whom you presumably are pretty comfortable around. As for random people seeing you through the window, I wouldn’t think that that’d be too embarrassing, given that it’s so fleeting and that you’ll never see them again. So all in all, I don’t see that there’s too big a downside. Maybe it’s just because it leads to the self-narrative of “I’m a weirdo”?
I happen to take great joy in being contrarian in rational ways haha. So if I drove I’d totally do this!
2) Different way of looking at it (for parents) - would you chose to put a helmet on your child?
(2) Below a certain age, yes (now at least) if I thought it added much safety value beyond a child’s seat. Above this age, his choice but I would offered to pay for it.