Airbags - Pop Em' Or Keep Em'
During the rainstorm, it's hard to see anything-especially when the
downpour makes the windshield wipers work constantly. On this cold, dreary
September night young two year old Mica is safely buckled in her child
safety seat, which is attached to the passenger seat belt. Her older
brother, Sean, quietly sleeps in the backseat while his mother drives the
exhausted children home. Suddenly, out of nowhere, a tall, 12 point buck
is caught by the vehicles' headlights. Both the buck and the mother freeze.
A milli-second later, a powerful explosion occurs inside the cabin. The
airbags deflate nearly as quickly as they inflate, and Sean begins to
scream. His mother is fine. The seatbelt ...
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as a result of airbags. The time has come to
ask ourselves, "Do airbags really work?"
First off, most people feel that airbags are a great safety device.
They let people walk away from an accident without a scratch, right? They
protect everybody, right? People don't need seatbelts if their car has an
airbag, right? Wrong. Airbags cause injuries, airbags kill, and airbags
don't work unless seatbelts are worn. In a rollover accident, people still
have a chance of being thrown from the car even if their car has airbags.
Not only are the airbags dangerous, they are also a key target for thieves.
The easy to remove airbags coupled with the high street value make them
sought after by thieves. The couple of hundred dollars received by the
thieves is more than enough incentive to target them, since they are worth
more than most car stereos.
When looking at the airbag issue, we must first look at the issue
of safety. When the idea of installing airbags was first introduced, ...
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they do not protect
all sizes of bodies. When the first airbags were tested, the engineers
didn't take into account the different sizes of people the bags would have
to protect. They used a one-sized dummy, similar to "Larry and Vince."
The engineers didn't think about the possibility of babies in the front
seat or smaller-framed people being hurt by the bags. The airbag deploys
at speeds of 200 miles an hour, according to CNNfn. The bags explode when
a sensor sets them off, whether the car is involved in a fender bender or a
head on collision ("Reports Knock Airbag Safety" 1). If the cars' sensors
could sense the severity of the crash, the airbag could deploy with more or
less ...
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