
Imagine equating legal to right. The standards say the doors must remain closed and latched in an accident because not having doors means almost guaranteed horrible death. Jeep are exempt from these rules because the doors āarenāt considered structural componentsā btw IIHS does not test jeeps without doors and even with them their expert safety ratings were not impressive. Iāll quote them for you, āthe back seat passenger would likely receive severe head and neck injuriesā for an adult dummy.
Children are fragile. Children cannot handle the brain damage that comes with being thrown off a bike and injured the way an adult might be able to. Thereās a difference between putting your kid on a dirt bike in a big yard and riding on an open road with cars. No matter how safe YOU are, you literally canāt always account for another driverās stupidity. Itās great you didnāt get hurt as a kid, but that doesnāt mean what you were doing was SAFE.