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Old Mar 20, 2009, 10:26 am
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Originally Posted by Wilbur
Originally Posted by Palal
Accidental deployment anyone?
That was my first thought when I saw this, and I imagined that it had a bumper-trigger like some of the first automobiles. As soon as you experience a birdstrike on the nose, everyone on board gets a faceful of expanding plastics - fun times!
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Originally Posted by DenverBrian
Birdstrike on the nose would hardly be a 16g deceleration.

And the numbers of accidental deployments in cars seems so small that it's not even newsworthy.

This could be a critical item to make some currently non-survivable crashes...survivable.
no, but some yutz taking down their carry on (which doesn't have to be heavy and over stuffed) and "nailing the seatbelt-mounted airbag" in just the right spot could be enough to cause a deployment....

good idea but bad concept (if that makes any sense)
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