Someone stole my car and now I own hundreds of vinyl records

Re:Someone stole my car and now I own hundreds of vinyl records by climb_stealth on Thursday January 19, 2023 @06:07AM (#34439044)

I think you may have gotten that wrong. Airbags are worse if the seatbelt is not worn. The timing for it firing takes into account that a seatbelt restrains the forward movement of the person. No seatbelt means moving forward quicker which means getting the full brunt of the airbag. Best case whiplash, otherwise a broken neck or similar.

At least that is what I have learned and which sounds reasonable.

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Re:Someone stole my car and now I own hundreds of vinyl records by bdsa on Thursday January 19, 2023 @06:41AM (#34439262)

I don't think your point and their point are mutually exclusive:

- no seatbelt, you want the airbag to catch you (better than no airbag)

- with a seatbelt, ideally the airbag doesn't (need to?) go off, but if it is necessary you'll be glad of it

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Re:Someone stole my car and now I own hundreds of vinyl records by iggldiggl on Thursday January 19, 2023 @08:24AM (#34439991)

I dimly seem to remember that there might be differing strategies in place in some parts of the world (maybe something like US vs. Europe?): In some places seatbelts aren't assumed in determining the airbag timings, whereas elsewhere the timing and triggering level are optimised based on the assumption that seatbelts are being used.

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