this post was submitted on 11 Aug 2023
501 points (94.2% liked)
Asklemmy
43792 readers
819 users here now
A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions
Search asklemmy ๐
If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!
- Open-ended question
- Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
- Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
- Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
- An actual topic of discussion
Looking for support?
Looking for a community?
- Lemmyverse: community search
- sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
- !lemmy411@lemmy.ca: a community for finding communities
~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de~
founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
How do you figure?
I think the statistics are likely incomplete and flawed. At low speeds and for small people, airbags are often more dangerous than the collision that triggered them. Especially the frontal ones that blow up in your face. Broken noses, black eyes, bruises, lacerations.
https://news.uga.edu/more-harm-than-good/
https://www.motortrend.com/features/do-airbags-save-more-lives-than-seatbelts/
Financially airbag deployment tends to total many older or less valuable vehicles even if the rest of the vehicle is sound.
Wearing your seatbelt is the best protection. Seatbelt plus airbag is a bit safer for more serious collisions. Airbags without seatbelts is less safe than no airbags are all. I'm all for seatbelts, less for the big frontal airbags.