• curlywurly@feddit.de
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    10 months ago

    I’m one of those people that has never learned to drive and i know nothing about cars… I’m guessing from the comments that the joke here is that the stuff attached to the steering wheel will explode in the driver’s face if the airbag is activated, is this right?

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    10 months ago

    Bedazzled steering wheels are like hunting with Dick Cheney, there’s always a chance you are going to get a face full of bird shot.

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      10 months ago

      Surely airbags are constructed in a way that doesn’t include slamming the hard plastic into your face?

      I’ll retract that question mark. Designing it that way would just be too dumb.

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        10 months ago

        Most are designed for the cover to move to the side when deployed but some are designed to split in some way that could cause the rhinestones to come free.

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        10 months ago

        An airbag is just a carefuly sized explosion instead of a kevlar pillow case, in a crash the airbag is deployed in a fraction of a second, lots of engineering goes into making them safe. However, the rind sones aren’t an intended part of the system and can be separated from the wheel and “knocked” out of the way at high speeds, much like ball barberings in a claymore.

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    10 months ago

    Told a couple once “Just so you know, in an accident the clipboard you’ve got glued to your dashboard will hit you right in the face as the airbag explodes madam, so it might be a good idea to remove it.”

    She looked at me with huge eyes then turned to her husband who was looking straight ahead with an annoyed look on his face, they took off and the clipboard was still there on their next visit…

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    10 months ago

    This is purely a guess but I feel like the people who do this are probably also more likely to get into an accident where the airbag would deploy.