Oblivion seat belt fail

[Dan1989]

Surely if your restraints did buy some strange reason fly open, I would feel alot more secure if I had the belt at least trying to hold the restraint stuck, as aside from falling out to a painful death.

 

[SaiyanHajime]

Surely if your restraints did buy some strange reason fly open, I would feel alot more secure if I had the belt at least trying to hold the restraint stuck, as aside from falling out to a painful death.

But that's not going to happen. And even if it could, since the restraints are manually operable by guests and prone to coming ondone, was there really not a better choice for an extra safety mechanism...?

They are a fatty measurement device. That is all.

This is clearly a question worth asking next time anyone goes to a trade show, though.

 

[MouseAT]

I don't get the seatbelt thing. Are they so leery of their restraint design that they had to add in a seatbelt for a "what-if?" scenario?

I always assumed it was a health and safety requirement for newer rides to have some sort of secondary system in place as a backup just in case the primary restrain locking mechanism fails. I know rides like Saw don't have a visible backup mechanism, but I'm fairly sure there will be some redundancy in there somewhere, like an independent second hydraulic cylinder to keep the restraint down if something goes wrong.