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    Your Next Plane Seat May Well Have an Airbag

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    10/26/09

    In reply to Your Next Plane Seat May Well Have an Airbag
    Poor dummy. They forgot to tell him he's flying Air Face-plant... #airplaneairbags
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    10/26/09

    In reply to Your Next Plane Seat May Well Have an Airbag
    Nuts to that! Install self-inflating pillows that activate when the passenger is feeling drowsy!

    Airplane ergonomics are probably the worst in the world. #airplaneairbags
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    10/26/09

    In reply to Your Next Plane Seat May Well Have an Airbag
    Doesn't anybody read the story before making snarky comments? These are only installed in certain locations where a passenger's head would smash into something very hard (this doesn't include most seats in coach).

    It is also designed to raise the survivability threshold of a crash from 9g to 12g. That involves accidents on or very close to the ground (overshooting the runway for example) but clearly excludes plummets of death.

    It's amazing how quick we all are to find stupid shit to bitch about. #airplaneairbags
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    10/26/09

    @curious-character: Cathay seems to be installing them in all of their seats... #airplaneairbags
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    10/26/09

    In reply to Your Next Plane Seat May Well Have an Airbag
    So THAT'S what they are - I have actually seen these belts on a few Cathay pacific flights. It just looks like a big piece of padding on one side of the lap belt - I could not figure out why only one side of the belt was padded, but now I know.

    Since we travel with a baby, I would love to know how to have one deactivated, since it looks like on deployment it would push my child through my face.

    I also don't understand why they don't add some sort of 5-point harness - you would only have to wear it during takeoff and landing, and then just wear the lap belt at cruise altitude. #airplaneairbags
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    10/26/09

    @Canoehead: Someone proposed seating passengers backwards because it greatly improves survivability, but they decided that that would be too disorienting and people wouldn't be able to find the exits after a crash.

    Given that, I bet the 5 point harness would be too complicated for addled passengers to take off before the fire got them. #airplaneairbags
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    10/26/09

    @jetRink: That makes no sense. I know that some people get motion sick moving backwards (I don't), but you just follow the lighted strips to the nearest exit. If that fails, follow the smoke since it will likely be flowing towards the nearest big hole.

    You could easily have a 5 point harness with a big, easy to grab, release catch. I think the airlines don't like the "message" sent by something that looks like it belongs in a stunt plane. #airplaneairbags
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    10/26/09

    @jetRink:
    Heaven forbid putting exits and both the front and the rear of the place.... #airplaneairbags
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    10/26/09

    @James Babiarz: Um, which they do. Have you not ever flown in a commercial airplane? #airplaneairbags
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    10/26/09

    In reply to Your Next Plane Seat May Well Have an Airbag
    I hope they are detachable and can be used as floatation devices too. On the slimmmmm chance you survive the crash, of course. #airplaneairbags
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    10/26/09

    In reply to Your Next Plane Seat May Well Have an Airbag
    Pointless! They'd do better to equip each seat with an ejection seat system. #airplaneairbags
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    10/26/09

    @rivercat: I don't know about you but I certainly don't want my chair to accelerate my skull into the overhead compartment at 15g. Isn't that what this regulation is out to prevent? #airplaneairbags
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    10/26/09

    In reply to Your Next Plane Seat May Well Have an Airbag

    The cost of replacing all those "what to do in an accident" pamphlets is going to be astronomical. #airplaneairbags
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    10/26/09

    In reply to Your Next Plane Seat May Well Have an Airbag
    this is so silly on so many levels... a) do you really think an airbag is going to save you on a plane crash? really?; b) the weight added to the plane means increased fuel costs aka higher prices for passengers and/or less luggage allowance; and c) what happens if the airbags deploy because of a electrical short/hard break on landing/turbulence? that plane will be grounded months to reinstall them, meaning huge costs on top of huge losses of revenues.

    Just buckle your damn seatbelt when you're seated. It won't kill you, hell, it might even save you a nasty bruise.

    (edit: they can always add a shoulder strap for much less weight and about the same degree of protection)
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    10/26/09

    @froggy: At Southwest, bags fly for free! #airplaneairbags
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    10/19/09

    In reply to Who Needs Training Wheels When You Have Ridiculously Elaborate Bicycle Simulators?
    The same thing can be accomplished with a stick, horse blinders, and lots of yelling. #hondabicyclesimulator
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    10/19/09

    In reply to Who Needs Training Wheels When You Have Ridiculously Elaborate Bicycle Simulators?
    Oh for fuck's sake! Whatever happened to the right of passage of getting nicked up shins and knees while learning how to ride? I remember back in the day learning how to ride on my Huffy banana seat bike and banging up my shins pretty good. I had not mastered the art of braking and my pedals where made of metal and they'd bang against my shins after I put my feet on the ground at the end of stopping. It was no biggie. Plus there's something about having your dad holding the back of your bike pushing you along and making sure you don't fall. I'd rather have those memories than one sitting in front of a screen. #hondabicyclesimulator
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    10/19/09

    @UGAdawg: I think this is more for simulating a controlled situation to teach kids how to handle traffic situations while riding. I can't imagine this machine teaches a kid to balance a "2-wheeler" properly
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    10/19/09

    @Lizard_King: In that case then I think having your parents riding along side you would be better than this. #hondabicyclesimulator
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    10/19/09

    @UGAdawg: Absolutely, but some parents will go to great lengths to automate something instead of spending time with their kids. Also, as the threads below suggest, maybe some adults aren't the best role models from which to learn rules. I'm all for personal responsibility, as well as letting parents raise their children, but if this method keeps kids from getting hit on their bikes, or gives them the confidence to get outside and ride their bikes, I'm for it. #hondabicyclesimulator
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    10/19/09

    In reply to Who Needs Training Wheels When You Have Ridiculously Elaborate Bicycle Simulators?
    You know, I get so sick of seeing grown adults riding bikes on the sidewalks. Kids don't need this; adults do. I say we make anyone over the age of 15 who is caught braking traffic laws while on a bike, take mandatory lessons on this. #hondabicyclesimulator
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    10/19/09

    @Software_Goddess: I say anyone breaking traffic laws on a bicycle over the age of 15 get put in a wooden stock and get pummeled with rotten tomatoes. #hondabicyclesimulator
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    10/19/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: Well... I was saving those tomatoes for the drunks that walk on the train tracks to avoid detection, but... OK #hondabicyclesimulator
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    10/20/09

    @Software_Goddess: also, biking on the wrong side of the road is also really annoying. A bicycle is a vehicle, you bike on the RIGHT side of the road (unless you live in England or one of the other countries where you drive on the left).

    But worst of all is the drivers who simply refuse to acknowledge that people are biking, and will either cut them off or force the cyclist to brake/swerve wildly to avoid being run over or running into the car. #hondabicyclesimulator
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    10/20/09

    @psychiccheese: My car is bigger than their bike, as such I have the right of way. Same thing with pedestrians. #hondabicyclesimulator
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    10/20/09

    @headc4se: Oh I had no idea we could make up our own rules! Let me try: Oh since I'm faster on my motorcycle than just about anything else, I have the right of way. Or, since when on the bicycle, I consume no gas or produce no emmisions I have the right of way.

    Or hey, I like this one best - Since 99% of roads gets funded by property taxes all you renters can get the f*ck off my roads. #hondabicyclesimulator
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    10/20/09

    @Lizard_King: I do like the rule about the motorcycles, since I usually do give myself the right of way when I'm riding, safely of course. Since you don't produce any emissions on a bicycle, I would have to take your right of way since idling isn't bad for the environment. Unfortunately, the whole renter thing doesn't work, since rent does include something towards property taxes, etc.. #hondabicyclesimulator
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