Ironic that so many Police stations are advertising their enforcement of wearing seat belts for the summer.
Doncha just love it when the goobermint protects us from ourselves?
I can see where deployment of airbags could be fatal. What I'm more concerned about are seatbelts, particularly the shoulder harnesses. I have a problem finding one that fits properly. I'm short, and most of these harnesses come around my throat. I think if I were in an accident, I'd probably be decapitated. But I have only found maybe one or two shoulder harnesses that actually fit comfortably. And I don't think the car manufacturers will be interested in making these harnesses to fit everyone until there is an accident where one of them does cause harm and they are sued.
10,000 vice 243? I like those percentages for airbags. Go buy the cutoff switch if you feel otherwise.
"wear a seatbelt. protect yourself (from your airbag)."
The problem is the gov't requires that the air bag stop an adult not wearing a seat belt. So they deploy with a lot of force.
The requirement of stopping an adult without a seat belt in not universally required. I believe Europe requires stopping an adult wearing a seat belt. Deployment under this requirement is less lethal. This makes more sense to me.
And mark my words - some day the use of sun screen will be tied the recent increase in skin cancer cases.
How did the species survive for thousands of years before the invention of sun screen?
I've learned to drive with my seat position further back away from the airbag.
And I no longer drive with my hand on top of the steering wheel, because if the airbag deploys it can force your arm back into your face breaking your nose, knock teeth out etc.
So I've learned to grip the steering wheel on the lower half.
I used to visit a brain injury rehab hospital and I was told that a number of the patients had injuries from airbags.
Much less costly and resource intensive, don't ya know.
deceptive headline and article. Most of it fails to mention that the harm comes from not wearing a seatbelt when you have an airbag. Well chalk that up to a big DUH.
Can we sue Ralph Nader?
I can believe it. Thanks to seatbelts, my daughter walked away from totaling a van (at 70 mph!--wierd accident, a merging vehicle's bumper seems to have caught her rear tire, throwing her into a spin which impacted the rear of the other vehicle before both came to rest in the ditch, hers facing backward from the direction of travel and nearer the impact site, the other continuing more-or-less straight). Her only injury was caused by the airbag deploying and giving her some nasty bruises and something like rugburns on her arms.