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davidsfarm is sweet. I got a video of him myself !

Something about airbags seems dangerous.

That's supposed to save my life?

>> ^alizarin:

That's supposed to save my life?


Not unless you have a driveable clothes dryer it isn't.

Technecks are our 21st century rednecks of entertainment.

>> ^alizarin:

That's supposed to save my life?

Exactly my reasoning. And they've determined that if you're "out-of-position", meaning not sitting in an upright back position in your seat with your arms by your side, then airbags could be dangerous. Cited.

Think about that next time you prop your feet on the dash [passenger], or cross your legs on long drives [passenger again], or lean forward to grab something from the floorboard, or even lean forward to change the radio station.

Yeah, there are certain scenarios that could happen wherein an airbag can cause more harm than good, possibly even killing someone that would have been uninjured if there was no airbag. However, you can say the same thing about seatbelts.

But aggregated over a very large sample set of accidents, an individual is clearly better off (less likely to be seriously injured) if they are wearing a seatbelt.

I figure the statistics for airbags would be similar, although the net balance is probably closer to zero than with seatbelts. I'm 100% in favor of that translating into regulating airbag installation to have operator overrides so that one can turn off airbags if they so choose. Seatbelts have that feature by default -- if you think you are better off without, don't buckle up. I would question such a person's sanity, or at least their grasp of statistics, but whatever.

I wouldn't let this video persuade you too much that airbags are exceptionally dangerous, or that the cons outweigh the pros. It does demonstrate that it would probably be a poor idea to swallow an airbag unit or sit directly on top of one and then detonate it, but unless either of those activities is on your agenda I'd wager you're better off with airbags than without them.

It would be hard to take evil villains seriously if they all snorted at the end of a bout of manic laughter like this guy does!

These are my favorite people in the whole world.

Someone buy that man a tripod and a slo-mo camera. Hell, I'm tempted to do it myself just to see what comes out.

Awesome stuff.

Oh man, thank god my car only has 2 of those. I cant imagine what would happen with closed windows and 4 or 6 of those activating at once.

1:07 best laugh evar.

BAM!! IN YOUR FACE SUCKER!!!

(literally)

where is this, Canada?

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