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Originally Posted by e_lunatic
please remove your airbag and take out the seat belt while you're at it.
thanks
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please try and find the brain that is suppose to be in your head and power it on.
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Originally Posted by Silver Supra
Of course there are airbag injury and fatality stats for the years after 2007. They show that airbags save a lot of lives in crashes.
There was one study I could find by 1 statistician at UGA that "found" that airbags cause more harm than good. That study mainly focused on airbag data before 1997 when major changes to airbags were mandated. Since then , the reverse is true.
Want to know who knows the most about it? The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. It is supported by auto insurers (who have an immense interest in getting the numbers right).
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Not really. They claim airbags save boatloads of lives, which in most cases they could, but they totally forget to document any cases where the airbags cost people more injuries than they might otherwise have had. However, just like having no idea how much the airbags actually did, we have no way to know how many extra injuries the airbags caused.
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Originally Posted by Tcoat
Ahhhh conspiracy theory so no doubt I am wasting my time here.
The fact that airbags save lives is very well documented no matter what the anti safety device league may try to say.
There were 42 million potentially defective airbags which resulted in 11 fatalities and 142 injuries. How many tens or hundreds of thousands of people are still alive because it did work properly?
All the studies and tests are NOT done around one body type. They are tested on a very wide range of types. I have watched it done with my own two eyes so the anti bag propaganda is wasted on me.
If you are in an accident that is serious enough to deploy an airbag then yes of course you will be injured by the airbag. Without it you would be even more seriously injured or dead. To say airbags injure people in accidents is a ridiculous comment.
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Not propaganda, just questions. Yes some lives have been saved. Some lives have absolutely been lost solely because of airbags. If airbags were as great as everyone says, why did they have to be mandated? Seat belts were only mandated after basically everyone installed them anyways.
The automobile industry is vastly over-regulated. I see no problem questioning every single one of these regulations.