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I'm going to guess that you don't work on safety engineering. All safety designs have tradeoffs. Airbags can kill you but we still use them because the probable
by tekla 11mo ago
I'm going to guess that you don't work on safety engineering. All safety designs have tradeoffs. Airbags can kill you but we still use them because the probable benefits outweigh the risks.
- torstenvl 11mo agoAirbags do not kill people. There were fewer than 300 airbag-related deaths of the course of two decades, and the vast majority of those deaths were caused by not wearing a seatbelt.
- dpark 11mo agoAnd in that time how many deaths were attributed to laminate glass?
- vkou 11mo ago> Airbags do not kill people. > fewer than 300 airbag-related deaths So, they do kill people. They kill people at a low enough rate that make them both worth installing, and mandating, compared to the alternatives.
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- potato3732842 10mo agoFrontal airbags, generally speaking, make people who would've died survive and make people who would've walked away with nothing look like they went a few rounds with a professional boxer. It's a flattening effect.