Airbag Seatbelts

[cabinetman]

Good idea or bad idea?
http://www.mlive.com/auto/index.ssf/...g_seatbel.html
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[phi1l]

That has got to be about one of the stupidest things I have heard of in a long time(IMO). The justification for requiring air bags is that people don't use seat belts. Now they want to put airbags in the seat belts that aren't used??

[jackellis]

They're available in light planes, where seat belt and shoulder harnesses are mandatory for everyone on takeoff and landing.

[Rand]

I like the idea that it explodes away from you instead of towards you. I know a couple of women who were in accidents when the airbag deployed. They were hurt more by the airbag than the crash itself.

[RAV2]

I like the idea that it explodes away from you instead of towards you. I know a couple of women who were in accidents when the airbag deployed. They were hurt more by the airbag than the crash itself.

I would suspect that they were not wearing seat belts or had their seats positioned too close to the steering wheel?

[phi1l]

People should just be required to wear air SUITS. On impact they will just bolow up like the Pillsbury Doughboy or a puffer fish.

[germdoc]

People should just be required to wear air SUITS. On impact they will just bolow up like the Pillsbury Doughboy or a puffer fish.

That is a great idea!

[smorris]

People should just be required to wear air SUITS. On impact they will just bolow up like the Pillsbury Doughboy or a puffer fish.

6 people get into and elevator and between floors their air suits spontaneously inflate...

[pelligrini]

People should just be required to wear air SUITS. On impact they will just bolow up like the Pillsbury Doughboy or a puffer fish.

"Slug bug, red!"
thud
Poof!
"Oh, sorry man, didn't know you had your suit on"

[phi1l]

6 people get into and elevator and between floors their air suits spontaneously inflate...

Think Mrs. Puff from SpongeBob

[Mr__Bill]

I wonder if the 'EX' had one of those suits.......




Bill
why is it that the things best left unsaid aren't?

[herb fellows]

That has got to be about one of the stupidest things I have heard of in a long time(IMO). The justification for requiring air bags is that people don't use seat belts. Now they want to put airbags in the seat belts that aren't used??

You're right, that was the original justification for the airbags. Just a guess, but I'm thinking they would link the starter to the belt. no belt, no start.
Actually, given their predilictions, I'm surprised they didn't do that with the plain old seatbelt in the beginning.

[cabinetman]

You're right, that was the original justification for the airbags. Just a guess, but I'm thinking they would link the starter to the belt. no belt, no start.
Actually, given their predilictions, I'm surprised they didn't do that with the plain old seatbelt in the beginning.

That would be the best way. Probably a pressure sensor in the seats so the computer knows the occupant status.
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[jziegler]

That would be the best way. Probably a pressure sensor in the seats so the computer knows the occupant status.
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That sensor is already in newer cars. My car (2007) can tell when someone is in the front passenger's seat or not, and turns the airbag on or off depending on the occupancy. It also will cause the seatbelt alarm to go off if the car is in gear with a passenger and the seatbelt not fastened. If the person in the seat is light, it assumes it is a child and turns the airbag off. If I have the seat folded down with lumber across it, I need to fasten the seatbelt so that I don't listen to the alarm.

Jim

[cabinetman]

That sensor is already in newer cars. My car (2007) can tell when someone is in the front passenger's seat or not, and turns the airbag on or off depending on the occupancy. It also will cause the seatbelt alarm to go off if the car is in gear with a passenger and the seatbelt not fastened. If the person in the seat is light, it assumes it is a child and turns the airbag off. If I have the seat folded down with lumber across it, I need to fasten the seatbelt so that I don't listen to the alarm.

Jim

My vehicle is a 2007, and my wife's is a 2010, and both vehicles can be started with the seatbelts unhooked. The point is to keep the vehicle from starting. That would be a safety feature like the one that makes you apply the brakes to get the tranny out of reverse (on an automatic), or push the clutch in to start the car with a stick shift.
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