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> Doesn't have a battery in it Any work done on a car w/ airbags (the last 20 years) has had a risk of airbag explosion with any localized short. The Takata a
by smileysteve 11y ago
> Doesn't have a battery in it
Any work done on a car w/ airbags (the last 20 years) has had a risk of airbag explosion with any localized short.
The Takata airbag recall means that many of these may shoot shrapnel at you. And the original airbags were known for occasionally flinging phosphorous at you.
Beyond that, Lead Acid batteries can be dangerous when the battery or the alternator fails - that's not steam, that's sulphuric acid steam.
- saulrh 11y agoI don't know why airbags aren't opto-isolated digital devices activated by simple challenge and response over canbus (read a single byte off address 0, write the same byte back to address 1 to trigger). I'd have expected pyrotechnics to have been first on the list for conversion to digital.