We’re also incredibly adaptable - seatbelts and helmets have become so standard that many feel “naked” if they don’t use them. It’s likely if we required 5 point harnesses and head-and-neck-devices (HAND) like the race cars do we’d get used to it relatively quickly.

But each of those things has a real cost, one that is borne by each and every individual, whereas the cost of NOT having them is only borne by the unfortunate.