Re: Airbags

• Subject: Re: Airbags
• From: Derek Ziglar <dziglar@domain.elided>
• Date: Tue, 6 Aug 1996 15:58:03 -0400

Jerome Soh <soh@domain.elided> writes:
>Similarly, if you wear your seat belt and shoulder belt, why do you=20
>need an exploding steering wheel or dashboard so you can't see where=20
>you're going?

You have missed an important point.  The airbag won't go off until at =
least the first foot and a half of your car is crushed in. By that time, =
seeing where you are going and trying to steer aren't going to make much =
difference!

Derek (92 525i E34 BMW CCA, 73 914 2.0 PCA, Atlanta GA)

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