Safety features

Actually most cars that I've seen simply have a sticker which says something like "Danger: Air
bag fitted:: Do not use rear-facing child seats" and the government produces pictographic
instructions which are mandatory for new child seats that show the best place to put them (in
the back of the car, it's amazing how many parents somehow can't figure that out) and how to
correctly fit them, plus the explicit warning about not using them in the front. There have
never been suitable restraints in the front of a car to have a baby or young child next to you
while driving, (hint: it will still be there when you arrive, and whatever it's screaming
about you won't be able to do anything about it while driving) so don't do it unless its an
emergency.

It's true that US drivers love to disable safety features, often by removing the relevant fuse
or micro- circuit breaker. I'd assumed this was part of the same culture that causes them to
fight seat belt laws, drink drive laws etc. a sort of misplaced devil-may-care frontier thing.

As to SELinux, I haven't found it a large obstacle. My colleague on the other hand seems to
have no end of problems, I think it's about how you approach security problems. My approach
agrees with that of SELinux, whitelisting, safe-by-default, assume unknowns are bad etc. while
his is constantly in conflict with it, he'd rather blacklist things once he sees why they were
bad, and so on. He gets things done faster, but they break more often (and often in ways that
have potential security consequences).

I found out the other day that he hates the safety interlock delay on washing machines. I was
very happy when I found out about that delay as a teenager (doing my first load of washing and
of course reading the manual), it seemed like a sensible way to avoid potentially dangerous
interactions between operator and machine, but to him it's apparently a constant source of
frustration.