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My guess would be to prevent whiplash. Some car headrests also force your head forward into a more active position for this reason.
by askafriend 8y ago
My guess would be to prevent whiplash. Some car headrests also force your head forward into a more active position for this reason.
- njarboe 8y agoI wonder what the crash rate of western airlines are at this point? For fatalities it is about 0/year. Maybe it is time to re-evaluate plane interiors for the trade-off between safety and comfort.
- askafriend 8y agoWhat you want is turbulence frequency and severity, not crash rate. I suspect metrics like these are what primarily drive these kinds of decisions rather than crashes since actual crashes are super rare.