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To: 2Jedismom
I stumbled across another automotive escape tool that might interest you. It's the "Breakout Standard Safety Tool, Window Breaker and Seatbelt Cutter".

It clips to your windshield visor, and with a glass breaker and seatbelt cutter on each end, and a secure grip, you can cut and smash with either hand in either direction. Actually, it looks like it could be used as a close-in weapon, too.

More deluxe models include a magnet, to stick it on steel, and LEDs to illuminate the work area. Starting at $25, this looks like a vey sturdy rescue tool.

852 posted on 11/24/2009 7:18:19 PM PST by 300winmag (Zero to abject failure in under a month. A new land speed record!)
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853 posted on 11/24/2009 11:58:47 PM PST by Lucius Cornelius Sulla (a wild-eyed, exclusionist, birther religio-beast -- Daily Kos)
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To: 300winmag

That’s a great tool. I’ve always kept a glass breaker of some sort in my cars.

There’s a new development, though, and I think it’s worth alerting people in case they don’t already know: Some new cars are coming equipped with driver/passenger side windows that are laminated safety glass instead of the usual tempered glass. I became aware of this only after taking a rock into my passenger window on the Commander while on the freeway, about a month after I bought it. Somehow a big baseball-sized rock came out from between a nearby truck’s tires, ricocheted off of something and came at me sideways across a couple lanes. At first I thought I was being shot at... but that’s another story. I then saw the rock bouncing away into some other unsuspecting victim.

The window didn’t shatter and blow out like a tempered glass window would. I was surprised to find that both front side windows are in fact laminated safety glass— like windshields are made of. It stayed in place with a big starburst crack in the middle. This made it significantly more expensive to replace, but that too is another story.

The takeaway from that is the knowledge that I can’t shatter a front side window to get out. The rear passenger windows, however, are tempered, and would shatter. I don’t really know why they’re doing this. It’s a little curious.

It’s worth keeping in mind too... that electric windows usually *will* still work underwater. It’s always worth a try.


865 posted on 11/26/2009 8:46:26 AM PST by Ramius (Personally, I give us... one chance in three. More tea?)
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