This is still a thing? Who the hell doesn't wear their seatbelt?

Yeah, pretty limited sympathy for anyone who doesn't wear a seatbelt these days.

I cringe when I see someone driving without one in a movie or on tv.

Fake!

The ride, I mean. Cars don't simply come to a bone-jarring halt like that. There are bumpers and crumple zones and such.

Also, seems like a barbaric way to convince them to wear seatbelts. Isn't it traditional to just show them a film of roadside carnage, dead babies and such?

Cars also don't go five miles an hour and hurt. You want them to do a real-life scenario at 90 MPH (Assuming both cars are going 45)? Are you fucking crazy?

They did the best they could without injuring people.

" we look for participants who dont historically wear there seat belts...."

I smell racial profiling.

We teach hundreds of people to buckle up by injuring them for life with whiplash. Smart.

Children in school buses.

Sure, buses don't have seatbelts in there, so it is not like a passenger makes a conscious decision to not wear them. I am pretty sure we were all talking about cars here.