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Will you get STABBED by your auto airbag?
This poor lady sure did. Lots of similar reports surfacing as well. The one thing that's supposed to be saving your life is killing people...  Have you had less than favorable 'airbag encounters'?...  http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/it- … ar-BBanMwE Oct 21 14 07:52 am Link 
Model Posts: 6638 MacMurdo - permanent station of the US, Sector claimed by New Zealand, Antarctica Airbags were not favored by the automakers. Active restraints (seatbelts) worked fine, but people weren't using them. Insurance companies and a few notable activists lobbied to force the government to mandate airbags even before the technology was perfect. We moved from active restraints to passive restraints so that insurers would be required to pay less for medical claims and death claims. Remember the decapitation of children in the front seat with the early airbags? Oops... I guess they didn't think it all through before they rushed to legislate them. I guess that is what happens when the choice to protect ourselves is taken away. Oct 21 14 08:15 am Link MoRina wrote: I used to know (through my mother-in-law) some of the family members of the guy who stole the seatbelt concept and got very rich. The actual inventor of the seatbelt came up with the idea for use in race cars. This other guy, a Sears salesman, stole the idea and patented it. Then, he managed to get some friends in Congress to mandate their inclusion in new cars. Oct 21 14 08:28 am Link A few years ago, I saw an old farmer I knew at the local cattle sale barn. His arm was in a cast, he had tape on his nose and two black eyes. I asked what happened... He said he had just purchased a new pickup truck, was driving it home for the first time, down the long gravel driveway to his house. His cattle had a habit of laying under the shade trees that lined the driveway. He honked the horn to get them to move, one was slow getting out of the way. As he had done so many times before with the old truck, he bumped the cow with the front bumper to get her to move...in reflex, the cow kicked the front bumper of the truck. The next thing he knew, he woke up, laying on the seat of his new pickup with a broken arm and blood gushing out of his nose. The airbag in the steering wheel had deployed and forcefully shoved his forearm up into his face. After he got out of the hospital, he went to the dealer, gave them back the new pickup and got his old pickup back. "Them new trucks ain't safe!" he warned. Oct 21 14 01:06 pm Link Chances are, no, you will not get stabbed by your airbag. In the rare event that it does deploy, it is far more likely to prevent injuries than cause them, and the injuries they prevent are typically far more severe than the injuries they cause. Personally, I'd take the risk of risk bruising and lacerations over skull fractures and brain trauma. That said, if you get a letter from your auto manufacturer saying your air bag might need to be fixed, go fix it immediately. Oct 21 14 01:33 pm Link The government mandated them. More liberal dictatorship, without regard to the safety of the airbags themselves. Oct 21 14 02:47 pm Link Brian Diaz wrote: +1. Oct 21 14 03:39 pm Link |
