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Imagine a car which won't activate the airbags (or emergency braking sensors, or ABS, or...) if you get in a crash while you're behind on a payment. Scummy. R
by falcolas 6y ago
Imagine a car which won't activate the airbags (or emergency braking sensors, or ABS, or...) if you get in a crash while you're behind on a payment.
Scummy.
Remember, "entrepreneurs," you can't collect debts from the poor dead (who don't have estates to collect against)
- josefresco 6y agoImagine selling a car airbag system separate from the car.
- dharmab 6y agoKind of hard to put an airbag on a bike. Honda tried with the Gold Wing. It only worked to prevent an over-the-bars crash. Didn't help in common lowside and highside crashes. Plus most bikes don't have any room for an airbag anyway, as anyone who's had to work on a cramped modern bike can attest to.
- olyjohn 6y agoWould be pretty sweet. We could retrofit older cars with some modern safety features... but the problem is that they have to be integrated into the design of the car. The airbag can't be too close or too far away, or hit you from the wrong angle.. or else it could end up killing you. Also airbags for cars are designed to keep you from smashing your body into the interior of the car. Airbags for riders are to keep you from smashing into the ground or other objects. I think it's pretty rare that colliding with the bike itself happens. That's why bikes don't have airbags on them.
- throwaway0a5e 6y agoWould be pretty easy to integrate airbags into old cars. Measure minimum distance from seat back to steering wheel and then configure airbag based on that (probably remove jumpers or something to control detonation). Sensor locations are pretty standard and modern airbags and computers are fast enough that you don't need to use crumple zones as a hack to buy time for the bag to go off before the occupant starts moving toward the space the bag will be in.
- olyjohn 6y agoYeah but most older cars have steering wheels with no place for an airbag, and a slip-ring with 1 conductor for the horn. Maybe something from the 80s will have a 3 conductor slip ring for cruise control or something... that would be the hard part. Nobody who has an old car will want some ugly airbag tacked on somewhere. It has to be tightly integrated and be invisible or nobody would buy it.
- sudosysgen 6y agoMotorcycle airbags are worn and are not part of the bike.
- scblock 6y agoIt's probably best to not give BMW any more bad ideas.
- ars 6y agoMakes more sense to disable the entire car, not the safety mechanisms. At at least put the car in "limp mode" limiting it to 20mph (30kmh).
- dylan604 6y agoI would more expect that you couldn't even unlock the car to get in or even start the car would be more of where we are heading.
- kjs3 6y agoYou are way behind the curve. Google "car payment lock" and you'll see. Preventing the car from starting if you miss a payment has been a thing for almost a decade in the sub-prime market.
- dylan604 6y agoI know that breathalyzers are a thing too, but that's not something I have personal experience with. Does that make me behind the curve there as well?
- aerostable_slug 6y agoNo, because you know they exist.
- trhway 6y agowith OTA updates, etc. one can expect that the "premium" features will be activated or not depending on the payment - "do you want to unlock the ludicrously soft luxury suspension mode?", seat heating/ventilation, self-driving levels, etc. This airbag vest case is a kind of preview of Peak Subscription. Only imagine your artificial kidney instead of the vest.
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