Don't Honk at Old People!
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brin
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Bob ~ Priceless....I hope it really happened and was not just set up...
Hate to be a killjoy but I believe that most airbags deploy not under impact but from rapid deceleration. so it could very well be set up.
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Airbags deploy for both reasons, but if an airbag deployed because an old lady swung a grocery bag I think a big dog could bump into the car and cause it to go off.
You never know what she had in the bag. Either way it is sure funny.
daugen
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There are several health care communities on the main road locally, and our roads are jammed with very senior drivers. Some can't even get going up to the 45mph speed limit and waver in the 35-40mph range.
There are no places to pass. The backup gets longer, and longer. Finally the white haired ancient driving turns off into the nursing home, where they are visiting a friend.
Part of me wants to congratulate them on being in reasonably good physical shape to continue driving. Part of me wants to tell this person, if you can't drive the speed limit, then find a friend who can.
The roads all used to be posted 5-10 mph higher, in the proverbial old days, but now the limits are safe for overloaded dump trucks and propane tankers. Which are sharing this road with grandpop.
But honking at a pedestrian? Don't they shoot back in Texas?
Let's hope we can all grow old too. Really old. And when we can't drive the car anymore, well, we just keep going on the tractor.
There are no places to pass. The backup gets longer, and longer. Finally the white haired ancient driving turns off into the nursing home, where they are visiting a friend.
Part of me wants to congratulate them on being in reasonably good physical shape to continue driving. Part of me wants to tell this person, if you can't drive the speed limit, then find a friend who can.
The roads all used to be posted 5-10 mph higher, in the proverbial old days, but now the limits are safe for overloaded dump trucks and propane tankers. Which are sharing this road with grandpop.
But honking at a pedestrian? Don't they shoot back in Texas?
Let's hope we can all grow old too. Really old. And when we can't drive the car anymore, well, we just keep going on the tractor.
creekbend
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Thanks for posting.
Dad told me when I started driving... Watch out for purple haired old ladies and little old men wearing fishing hats!!
BIG DOOLEY
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airbag looked fake to me.
plus the passenger airbag never deployed.
some don't without a person on the seat though.
we test airbags and test airbag coatings at work. just didn't look real.
My opinion thats all
sailfast
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Not real. Air bags are tuned so that can't happen. And a real air bag deployment is much more violent.
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BIG DOOLEY
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I agree, much more violently
LD1
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Agree with it being fake.
Unless things have changed from when I was in auto-tech school, the car has to be travelling above a certain speed or the airbags WONT deploy. Something like above 25 or 30 before they will go off. And that is only if the deceleration is above a certain rate. That is why snowplowing parking lots usually dont trip airbags. Minimum speed isnt reached. And I have caught some curbs pretty good in lots I was unfamiliar with:banghead:
Besides, how many 88 year-old women are walking around with a 30lb dumbell in their bag?
Unless things have changed from when I was in auto-tech school, the car has to be travelling above a certain speed or the airbags WONT deploy. Something like above 25 or 30 before they will go off. And that is only if the deceleration is above a certain rate. That is why snowplowing parking lots usually dont trip airbags. Minimum speed isnt reached. And I have caught some curbs pretty good in lots I was unfamiliar with:banghead:
Besides, how many 88 year-old women are walking around with a 30lb dumbell in their bag?
daugen
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little old men wearing fishing hats!!
uh, oh.
I wear one of those, have a really fat head and those little hats are one of the few that fit well...
Better make sure I keep my speed at five over...
actually the hat is mostly to preserve my balding head from smacking into the grapples fingers; boy that smarts.
I asked for some Carrhart double kneed logger pants for Christmas, maybe they make a double padded fishing hat...
uh, oh.
I wear one of those, have a really fat head and those little hats are one of the few that fit well...
Better make sure I keep my speed at five over...
actually the hat is mostly to preserve my balding head from smacking into the grapples fingers; boy that smarts.
I asked for some Carrhart double kneed logger pants for Christmas, maybe they make a double padded fishing hat...
LD1
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I just watched it again, an yea, airbags are WAY more violent. I didnt catch that the first time, and seen soo many of you post that, I had to watch again.
I have a habit of liking to set off airbags taken out of junk cars. Turned upside down on the ground, and standing back 50 ft, plug the battery charger in to deliver 12v to the bag, they make a LOUD boom and go about 30' in the air. That thing in the vid would be lucky to clear a foot off the gound.
I have a habit of liking to set off airbags taken out of junk cars. Turned upside down on the ground, and standing back 50 ft, plug the battery charger in to deliver 12v to the bag, they make a LOUD boom and go about 30' in the air. That thing in the vid would be lucky to clear a foot off the gound.
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I got 'airbagged' once. Broke my nose, broke my glasses and ripped the inside of my lower lip from my gums. Nothing candid about them. I was only doing 40mph.
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Mace Canute
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Real air bags can beat the stuffing out of you sometimes but what's really scarey are the counterfeit airbags! Here's a video of two fake airbag deployments, the first is an under deployment which is pretty tame even though it probably provides little protection compared to a real one. The second is self explanatory.
NHTSA's Video on Counterfeit Chinese Airbags - YouTube
