Aways back when, when dinosaurs roamed the Earth, sports cars had three-spoke steering wheels but now they have the big, ugly airbag in the center.
I like the thought of having the extra safety feature in my car but have never liked the way it made the wheel look. When I sold cars, a girl started at work whose forearms were all scuffed up and black and blue. Her air bag had deployed while driving down the road. I am not concerned about this happening on any modern cars and realize it was a *very* rare incident even in her case.
I told her "When you hear the steering wheel start playing the 'Pop Goes the Weasel' song, you gotta pull over!"
While driving my old POS to work in the mornings with it's first generation airbag, I occasionally think about it and will sip my coffee, a little off to one side. Imagine what it would feel like to have someone take a 200MPH baseball bat to the bottom of your coffee mug, as you drink out of it?!?! You'll get to find out what your teeth taste like, on the inside.
Clearly, a plain ole accident is far more likely than anything accidental involving an airbag but has anyone removed the modern steering wheel and replaced it with a plain jane one sans airbag?
Keep in mind I am not going to do this [wink wink] but I wonder if the whole steering column wasn't set up to only accept airbag equipped steering wheels.
If you race your car, do they allow you to have airbags? Seat belts are wonderful safety features and I have always worn mine, even on the shortest trips but I wonder why NASCAR doesn't use airbags? Heck, who gets in more accidents per day, than a race car driver?
I wouldn't mind so much, if I smacked into the wall at over a hundred and my whole car turned into marshmallow, coated with blaze orange safety warnings. [WHOOMPH]
Imagine that? The cleanup crew cleaning the s'mores off the track, following a "little altercation in turn four".
-David
"All around the mulberry bush, the monkey chased the weasel. The monkey stopped to pull up his sock..."
I like the thought of having the extra safety feature in my car but have never liked the way it made the wheel look. When I sold cars, a girl started at work whose forearms were all scuffed up and black and blue. Her air bag had deployed while driving down the road. I am not concerned about this happening on any modern cars and realize it was a *very* rare incident even in her case.
I told her "When you hear the steering wheel start playing the 'Pop Goes the Weasel' song, you gotta pull over!"
While driving my old POS to work in the mornings with it's first generation airbag, I occasionally think about it and will sip my coffee, a little off to one side. Imagine what it would feel like to have someone take a 200MPH baseball bat to the bottom of your coffee mug, as you drink out of it?!?! You'll get to find out what your teeth taste like, on the inside.
Clearly, a plain ole accident is far more likely than anything accidental involving an airbag but has anyone removed the modern steering wheel and replaced it with a plain jane one sans airbag?
Keep in mind I am not going to do this [wink wink] but I wonder if the whole steering column wasn't set up to only accept airbag equipped steering wheels.
If you race your car, do they allow you to have airbags? Seat belts are wonderful safety features and I have always worn mine, even on the shortest trips but I wonder why NASCAR doesn't use airbags? Heck, who gets in more accidents per day, than a race car driver?
I wouldn't mind so much, if I smacked into the wall at over a hundred and my whole car turned into marshmallow, coated with blaze orange safety warnings. [WHOOMPH]
Imagine that? The cleanup crew cleaning the s'mores off the track, following a "little altercation in turn four".
-David
"All around the mulberry bush, the monkey chased the weasel. The monkey stopped to pull up his sock..."