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Originally Posted by MikeSTI
so what are your thoughts on Side Air Bags? All I know is if that air bag goes off and saves my life while knoking my sun glasses into my eyes I would rather die not to mention becoming paralized. To save a life is in full health not just breathing, they do these studies half assed and dont look at all the factors. If I am unharmed from the crash you cant say the Air Bag did anything to save my life. If I'm in a crash and it is plain to see by the carnage that the Air Bag saved what life I have left then its pointless.
Just my way of thinking I guess.
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I might be missing your point, but it seems like you're saying that you can't prove an airbag saved your life... which is technically true, it can't be proven. But experts can make pretty good estimates of what would have happend if you hit the steering column or windshield instead of an airbag.
You also bring up blindness as an example of an airbag saving your life, but also causing your quality of life to go down. I'd simply argue that if the airbag went off, chances are the accident could have caused you plenty of life altering damage if you survived. Airbags aren't guarentees that everything will be hunky-dory after a wreck... but in general, you're much better off with them, than without.
Plus, think of this: If you get in a wreck, and you've removed your airbag (which is against the law) your insurance
will not cover your injuries. Somthing simple like a few broken bones will cost more than the car itself. Hell there's a guy on NASIOC right now that had to have emergency surgery to remove his appendix, and he just got a $30,000 bill because he's got no insurance. Imagine the cost of a life-flight or ambulance trip, plus emergency surgery for broken bones, and several days if not weeks in the hospital (which can all happen even *with* the airbags), and you'll quickly owe the hospital hundreds of thousands of dollars... all because you wanted a cool steering wheel.