[RedlineMan]

Thanks Pete;

First off, too much "improvement" beyond what has been offered in this update would likely be impossible. Too much inertia against such more sweeping mandates. Getting all the seats at least equal in terms of belt routing is a good start. So too is it a good idea to limit "upgrades" in regulations to a very basic level because they tend to be based on incomplete, missunderstood, missinterpreted, or blatantly false "information." This "information" quite often is based on "prevailing wisdom."

To wit, the continuing myth of the car hitting the driver in a roll over. This is a pig that many still try to fly, and simply will not die. Sort of like Bill Clinton... but I digress. It is held onto dearly by some very smart people, much to my shagrin. It is a clearly proven FACT that in the vast majority of cases, occupants suffer roll over injury from hitting the car, not the car hitting them. In that instance, a proper harness and seat will only INCREASE the retention of the occupants, further protecting them from projecting out of the seat and hitting the car. The number of times that a car hits an occupant in a roll over is statistically insignificant, if even measureable.

As Kurt rightly mentions, there are consequences to adding hard objects to car interiors, and - in keeping with the previously mentioned FACT - sanctioning bodies stand to injure far more people by forcing them to tube their interiors than they do in letting them be. It's getting to the point where you have to either drive a bone stock car - which in my opinion endangers the advanced driver - or buy a full race car. This is not what we want, I don't believe.

More to come, I'm sure.