Why is it that a child can ride on the back of a motorcycle and yet a grown person must buckle up in a car

Question

riding in a car without a seat belt is a thousand times safer than riding a motorcycle. maybe i'm missing something, someone explain

Answer 1

apples and oranges.

Whoever said "there are no stupid questions" never saw this one.

Staying at home is a million times safer than riding in a car, yet children are allowed to ride in cars.

Staying in bed is 8 million times safer than taking a bath, yet some children are forced to bathe nearly every day.

Answer 2

You are correct.  In fact riding on a motorcycle is 5 times more dangerous than driving a car.

But it just the nature of motorcycle. That does NOT mean that everything has to be lowered to lowest common denominator.

Good Luck...

Answer 3

how are you going to put a seat belt on a motorcycle you cant!!! there is a helmet law though and protects the child and the rider also and my childs rides with me and i have a Class A lincence and a doubble and tripple trailer, hazmat and tanker, motorcycle indorment. and you are going to sit there and all children cant ride on the back of a bike the a child should never ride in a car with you. if you are a safe and defenceful driver and you wont have any problem about accdents you can always come up a way to avoid a accdent i should know i a TRUCK DRIVER FOR 17 YEARS and god bless i have not been in one never came close yet eather With a FUEL TRUCK  and CHILDREN gets hirt all the time in a car accents too they die and they really get hirt also waht are you going to do get rid of all the cars and make every ride busses well if that buss rolles over how many people die and there is PROTECTION its a helmet and there is safty motorcycle classes and tell you how to fall off the bike with out getting hirt if you need to lay down the bike and if its amergency the passager takes there right let to the right side and the driver dose the same the driver tryes to slow it down and now you are laying the bike down and you are ridding on the side of the bike sorat like a skate board when its safe to jump of you do so now you wrecked your bike and you 2 are safe there are defence full classes you can take for motorcycles

with outs saying that motocycles are not safe people with cars are not safe that never went to drivers education, people talking on there cell phones and driving that a big no too and road rage thats a big problem also when you are in a front of a big truck what do you do you get so close to the rear bumber i cant see you so i dont think motorcycles are not safe thay are its the other drivers  

Answer 4

To me this makes no since at all..........

Answer 5

lots of things are silly. it is the law right or wrong. you can pick anything apart if you want to<