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Certainly, airbags installed in todays passenger vehicles are important safety features. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) estimates that more than 20,000 lives have been saved by airbags.
The bad news is that airbags can also cause severe personal injuries and even wrongful deaths. Detailed NHTSA reports show that since 1990, airbags have killed more than 230 people and injured thousands of others.
Because of this, it is important to be aware of how airbags can play a part in auto accident injuries. Following are the most commonly seen injuries related to airbags.
Contact Injuries
Airbags must come out of the steering wheel or front instrument panel very quickly to be effective in an automobile accident. (Airbags can be ejected at speeds as high as 200 miles per hour.) But that quick deployment means there is also a large amount of force. That force can cause contact injuries, including:
- Cuts and scrapes
- Bruises
- Contact burns
- Rashes
Eye Injuries
Types of eye injuries from airbag deployment include eye-socket bruising, broken bones of the eye socket, bleeding in the eyeball or ruptured eyeball. These injuries can lead to blindness or the development of angle-recession glaucoma.
Head Injuries
Concussions can easily occur because of an airbag hitting a persons head on deployment. But more serious injuries, like traumatic brain injury, can also result.
Because of the position of the airbag, children in rear-facing child seats in the front seat, and children and petite adults who sit closer than 10 inches from where the airbag deploys are at the largest risk for serious brain injury.
Broken Bone Injuries
If your arms are in the path of a deploying airbag, the airbag can cause broken bones in your arms, wrists and fingers.
Internal Organ/Soft Tissue Injuries
Because the engineering behind airbag systems was created for a 5 ft 8 inch 180 lb. male, the bags can put others who do not fit that driver model at serious risk for internal injury. But internal damage can happen to anyone, especially unconscious drivers who may be slumped over the steering wheel or drivers who are not wearing seat belts and who slide forward during a crash.
Other Airbag-Related Injuries
- Spinal cord injury
- Chest injury
- Amputation of arms or fingers
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Seep,
First, merry Christmas.
As to your liberal theories and programming:
“the attitude that “doing the right thing” is only OK if you can make a profit is a horribly unethical way to conduct business.”
Why is that?! If a business is making a profit, they are providing value in an efficient way. If people are buying their product, they value the product more than the twenty dollars it cost, and the $20 worth of alternative products they could have purchased. “Profit” allows the company to invest in better products, that better meets the demands of the consumers. And with the additional value the consumer gained, he/she is able to spend in other areas of the economy. That sounds like a 'win-win' in areas outside of MSNBC.
Therefore, your premise that “profit” is inherently evil, is moralistic judgement on your part. Why is that most Liberals claim to oppose those who wish to impose their religion on others, yet claim the right to impose their own on others??
“The automobile standards are in place for a reason”
And that would be because consumers demand greater value in their products, and a free market allows for competition. Safety features such as seat belts, anti-lock braking, stability systems, air-bags, ect., were ALL developed, and available to consumers, PRIOR to DOT, NHTSA directives. Demand for fuel-efficient vehicles increased due to the price of oil, long before CAFE requirements. “Standards” are ways to protect and inform the public; “REQUIREMENTS” are ways to limit consumer choice, market access, and impose costs on producers, consumers, AND taxpayers.
A perfect example, “air-bags:” Step 1; Government forces automakers to install passive restrain systems, i.e. airbags. Step 2; Government must increase crash test requirements to include PRS tests, automakers must respond with increases in R&D and testing costs. Result…babys and small children are killed due to airbag deployments. Step 3; Goverment increases requirements on Child-seats, and forces automakers to test on smaller passengers….more R&D, more costs. Step 4; Government requires automakers to install ways to deactivate airbag systems. Results, a confused consumer goes to the dealer to deactivite their airbags, and Federal rules prohibit dealers from “disabling a required safety device.” Step 5, Government rewrites regulation to allow certified mechanics to disable safety device. Step 6, Government establishes rules for conditions when a device can be disabled, and what constitutes a “certified” and properly trained mechanic…..Meanwhile, the UAW imposes more work rules and requirements for employees involved in installing and handling air-bags, as they are considered an explosive device and regulated by OSHA.
The short of it, managing consumer demand and meeting their needs is easily done from your computer desk, and at the Sierra Club. But pretending you are doing anything but imposing the political ethos of a minority upon a broader free market, is vain justification.
“However, these choices incur a cost to society as a whole, be it through increased healthcare costs, increased environmental cleanup costs….”
You can find imaginable “costs” with nearly EVERY human activity. The question is do you develop a system where individuals get to evalute the cost/benefit of a particular activity, or do you allow a handful of Government employees to define value for everyone.
In order for a free marked to exist, individual freedom must be protected against the force, fraud, and injury of another. Example: BP spills millions of barrels of oil in the Gulf. BP pays the economic loss of individuals affected, and pays to bring the environment back to its previous condition. Of course there are aspects which are more complicated than that, starting with the fact that the damaged property is OWNED by the government, which pretty much eliminates free market principles to beging with….but I digress.
The point is, there IS a cost associated with this damage. It was so costly that I am quite confident, BP, Halliburton, and Trans Ocean, will try to avoid in the future! Their ability to push this cost to consumers will be limited ONLY by securing the right of the other energy producing companies, who HAVEN'T screwed-up, to continue their business as usual. Whereas, the “liberal” solution would be to impose burdens on ALL the producers, and in affect, socialize BP's mistake on all of us.
Like I said before Seep, if you are so confident of these alleged costs, get a lawyer and sue. That too, is part of the free market.
And finally….the best of new years for all of us.
Does anyone have? dashcam video of the other cruiser?
Great post. All of the above doesn't really bother me, although, I am no fan of any of it either. What gets me is avulsed eyeballs. I am just not good with eye injuries.
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