It's prosumably better to stay in bed all day so the big bad world doesn't get you as well then.
OK, I've had enough of this stupid Halo hate.
You want to know why I am happy to see the Halo on cars? In my time marshalling, I have been unfortunate enough to attend a fatal accident. It was a crash in a single seater where a driver was killed because his head was exposed. It was really not nice to be around and is not something I hope to see again. Why do I not dislike the halo? I know how horrible it is to go to a car and see terrible injuries. I wouldn't want to wish that experience on any other marshals. It really ruins your day/week/month to see somebody killed doing something they and you love. Do we really want another Justin Wilson type accident broadcast across the world and playing out in front of a packed grandstand filled with children? No. Do we want to open up GTPlanet and see a "RIP F1 driver" thread? No. The whole Jules Bianchi incident was a horrible moment for the sport.
The drivers asked for head protection, and the halo is the only viable solution
at the moment. It will be improved to not only look better, but function even better than it does at the moment. How much do you really want to see one of the drivers killed? If the answer is anything other than "I don't", you really need to sort out your priorities and look at
WHY the halo has been introduced, not just look at it and go...
iT loOkS DiSGusTIng, tAkE it AWay
I don't like the way it looks. I can see many issues with it, but
BECAUSE I understand the reasons it's there, there is
NO ARGUMENT AGAINST IT. Aesthetics the only argument against it, which is a pathetic argument. In modern F1, a driver is more at risk from being hit in the head by flying debris or other cars than they are to be trapped in a burning car. F1 takes place on a circuit with marshals everywhere. If a car is on fire, someone will at least attempt to stop the fire in enough time that a driver won't be trapped for any time longer than necessary.
The Indycar shield is not a solution
yet. There are too many issues with its strength in car-to-environment crashes for it to appear on cars yet. But it will probably replace the halo in a few years.
Safety is not a joke. In some places it can be taken too far, but here, it is not being taken too far.
Now, let's ignore the halo for a while, because
it has zero affect on anything meaningful, and focus on the racing. That's what we're all here to watch, and what we want to see. This season should be much closer than last season, and the racing should be awesome. So lets focus on what matters, and not something that has been fully researched, and is being introduced with full confidence. Any issues it may cause have been thought of, researched and explained.
tl;dr:
Get over it.
