TweetyV6 said:

nayroo2002 said:

Ahhh.

THAT'S why they invented airbags

The airbag was invented so you won't crack your skull and/or rib cage when you hit the steering wheel in a head on collision.
Ever wondered what the letters 'SRS' on your airbag mean?

SRS = Supplement (to the) Restraint System.

An airbag ONLY works effectively when seatbelts are worn.
There's a delicate finetuning in timing of maximum bag inflation and head hitting the airbag.
That timing is disrupted when you don't wear a seatbelt.
Your head arrives too soon at the steering wheel, just when the bag deploys.

Don't know wheter you've ever seen a slow motion video of an airbag deploying, but it's a brute force. It's an explosive charge, generating gas which deploys and inflates the airbag.
You don't want to be near that when that happens. It will most probably cost your life.

When I worked at Autoliv (aseatbelt and airbag manufacturer) in 1995-1997, I witnessed several Conformity of Product airbag/seatbelt test in the prototype phase.
It was also the time when there were reports of children (sitting opposite to the driving direction in child seats on the passenger seat) being decapitated by deploying passenger airbags.

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That is SRS = Supplemental Restraint System - No additional words are required if you use the words represented by the three letter acronym.

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A SRS airbag can be distinguished from the early airbags in the USA where they were meant to repalce seatbelts (or at least the shoulder sash).

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It was well known that US bags used to inflate with much more force than cars built to meet the European ECE vehicle and equipment regulations - the former were based on the person potentially not being restrained by a seatbelt due to the large number of people that don't wear a seatbelt, while the latter relied on the airbag supplementing the seatbelt so they work together.

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Also note the article you linked to stated that the child seat was a forward facing seat, not a backwards facing seat. It was in the front seat against advice at the time and it was not secured. Add this all together and as the coroner and Police said, this is "a major factor in the decapitation" in what would have otherwise have been a "minor traffice accident".

Phishanga said:

Yes, I lost my drivers license once because I didn't pay a ticket. Its not worth the hassle.

If you don't wear a seat belt you deserve to fucking die.

lust said:

Phishanga said:

Why don't you just say that you think that people should not get covid vaccines?

How on earth did you come to that conclusion?

My bad then. But it's sort of the logic anti-vaxxers would use.

1. Seat belts do not prevent car accidents. (vaccinations do not prevent infections)
2. Most car accidents are caused by people wearing seat belts. (most infections are caused by or happen fort vaccinated - which is or will be true once enough people are vaccinated)
3. Seat belt use can cause injuries and there are documented deaths caused by seat belts. (vaccinations can have side side effects)

Thus don't get vaccinated. I thought that was the allegory here. But if it's meant literally, I get it even less.

Phishanga said:

Seatbelts saved my life.
If it wasn't for my seatbelt (this was early 80's and we didn't have any airbags) i would have flowed head first out of the front window when my dad crashed into a car on the highway going 120 km/h.

And even if not wearing a seatbelt causes a non-fatal injury i can bet that the injured will suffer lifetime complications like back pains or even end up in a coma.

Prince didn't wear a seat belt apparently and Morris Hayes told him off for it.

fortuneandserendipity said: