I had gotten so used to the automatic belts in my Legacy BF Wagon that going into a car where you had to put them on was, well unusual. I suppose if I had a choice between a manual belt and two airbags vs an automatic with only one, well...I guess I'd opt for the manuals, though the automatic one did spoil me a bit. My concern is having an airbag in the first place, after having a quintuple bypass...it makes me nervous having any airbag and for liability reasons, no one will disable it, even with a Doctors note.