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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