“When I think about the industry right now, I see a highway without speed limits, cars without seatbelt dingers,” he said. “Regulators are who put the seatbelt dingers in. I don’t think the car manufacturers just woke up one day and decided to annoy whoever’s driving the car until they put their seatbelt on.

I disabled my seatbelt dinger because, while I basically never have someone in the passenger seat—and have only once in my life ever had the dinger clue me in that a passenger intentionally hadn’t buckled up—I do put my backpack on my passenger seat and it sporadically sets it off, usually on the highway, which is infuriating. That happened hundreds of times before I disabled it.

It still flashes a warning light on the dash for a bit, but that’s infinitely less annoying.