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Originally Posted by AAAAA
Isn't it odd the things that we just accept these days? I remember when air bags first came out, a co-worker HAD to have them. Shortly after she had a fender bender in the parking lot at work. I have to say seeing that air bag deployed was one of the worst things I've ever seen, it broke her glasses and her nose, she had two black eyes and a concussion. I said at the time "I'll never have one of those!" When they became standard, I purchased older vehicles to avoid them. To this day when I ride in my husband's truck I make him turn the passenger side air bag off.
These days I have no choice but to comply, but I resent it.
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I will give you the flip side on that one. When I worked for a snack food company years ago and spent alot of time on the road. At one intersection I watched a guy run a red light and hit another car coming across the intersection. The guy was going at least 50 by my guess. His car's front collided with the other car. The car's airbags deployed and he actually got up and walked a few seconds later.
Had he not had the airbags he would have been hauled off in a stretcher with severe head injuries.