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Volcott posted:The safety aspect aside, I can't imagine dealing with the "hey dude you forgot to buckle up" warning chime every time you drive anywhere, forever. There are elaborate ways to disable this in most cars. Like it's a dozen individual steps as if you're entering in the grandfather of all Konami Codes.
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or just one of those detatched buckle thingys you just plug in. i mean if you arent gonna buckle up then i mean #yolo anyways
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Volcott posted:The safety aspect aside, I can't imagine dealing with the "hey dude you forgot to buckle up" warning chime every time you drive anywhere, forever. People get used to it, I swear.
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Jul 5, 2019 18:49
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sneakyfrog posted:or just one of those detatched buckle thingys you just plug in. Bonus: a lot of those are made to work as bottle openers, too!
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Jul 5, 2019 18:49
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just lol if you havent developed the dad skills to open a bottle with any object
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sneakyfrog posted:or just one of those detatched buckle thingys you just plug in. These should require showing you have a will before purchasing.
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Lurking Haro posted:People get used to it, I swear.
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Jul 5, 2019 18:54
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Imagine continuously driving in fear of passing a cop for fear of a ridiculously expensive ticket, to own the man for freedoms.
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Jul 5, 2019 18:56
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no its so you can do a sweet kickflip combat roll out your vehicle if it overturns or so if you get trapped in a lake and the car is sinking your commie belt doesnt kill you
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Jul 5, 2019 18:57
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Automakers are very discriminatory, the seat belts aren't designed for the portlier gentleman. Neither is the suspension, my new F-650 truck is already leaning to one side!
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sneakyfrog posted:or just one of those detatched buckle thingys you just plug in. Turning your f250 into a meat catapult to own the libs
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Jul 5, 2019 19:41
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sneakyfrog posted:no its so you can do a sweet kickflip combat roll out your vehicle if it overturns or so if you get trapped in a lake and the car is sinking your commie belt doesnt kill you
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Jul 5, 2019 19:53
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way to buy into commie culture. you ninny. thats some faux operator poo poo right there.
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Zzulu posted:Eh maybe but also his car barely took any damage from what you see in that video. A lot of car crashes seem to really gently caress up some cars but Fat Mans car over there just seems to have been punted around and not even much at that It doesn't take a whole lot to seriously injure or kill you when not wearing a seatbelt. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqGv_x2xEZY Do note that there are some crashes with ambiguous survival in this video, but there's a lot of low-speed crashes where the person with a seatbelt barely even moves while the people without a seatbelt pinball around the interior, smashing their head into stuff or careening into other people. Seatbelts are absolutely vital. Even if your car is still driveable after the impact, the energy being imparted can be more than enough to crack your head open and turn you into a projectile.
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It's also important to note that airbags are designed to work in conjunction with your seatbelt, and can increase your risk of injury if you're not wearing one.
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Big Dick Cheney posted:I do the slight left turn before turning right thing sometimes. I think it's because I played a lot of Euro Truck Simulator before I learned to drive for real. goons.txt
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Wingnut Ninja posted:It's also important to note that airbags are designed to work in conjunction with your seatbelt, and can increase your risk of injury if you're not wearing one. I think US airbags are designed to work if you aren't wearing a seatbelt. Airbags in other countries open less violently because in the US, they have to be able to catch an unbelted idiot.
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Learning how to steer in a slide in Grand Theft Auto really did help for the times that I've slid on ice in real life.  Cojawfee posted:I think US airbags are designed to work if you aren't wearing a seatbelt. Airbags in other countries open less violently because in the US, they have to be able to catch an unbelted idiot.
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Wingnut Ninja posted:Learning how to steer in a slide in Grand Theft Auto really did help for the times that I've slid on ice in real life. From wikipedia quote:In 1998, FMVSS 208 was amended to require dual front airbags, and reduced-power, second-generation airbags were also mandated. This was due to the injuries caused by first-generation airbags, though FMVSS 208 continues to require that bags be engineered and calibrated to be able to "save" the life of an unbelted 50th-percentile size and weight "male" crash test dummy. Technical performance and validation requirements for the inflator assembly used in airbag modules are specified in SAE USCAR 24-2.
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All my slavic relatives wear their seatbelts, but only if in the front seat. Seat belts are important safety items and you'd be a fool not to buckle up... unless you're in the back seat in which case what the gently caress who the gently caress wears a seat belt in the back seat why would you ever do that!?!? It's just so bizarre that they're 100% on board with seat belts, 100% understand why they are important, but some how think being in the back seat makes you immune to the same physics happening tot he front seats. I've asked them to explain this to me and it's just "Well... just everyone knows you don't wear them in the back." Just a weird cultural thing I guess.
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sneakyfrog posted:way to buy into commie culture. Cut the seatbelt with your sickle, smash the window with your hammer.
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Baronjutter posted:All my slavic relatives wear their seatbelts, but only if in the front seat. Seat belts are important safety items and you'd be a fool not to buckle up... unless you're in the back seat in which case what the gently caress who the gently caress wears a seat belt in the back seat why would you ever do that!?!?
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Baronjutter posted:All my slavic relatives wear their seatbelts, but only if in the front seat. Seat belts are important safety items and you'd be a fool not to buckle up... unless you're in the back seat in which case what the gently caress who the gently caress wears a seat belt in the back seat why would you ever do that!?!? anybody got that PSA from Australia or NZ where the unbuckled kid in the back becomes a projectile, killing him and his mom up front? it was some highway horrors level poo poo
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Craptacular posted:TBF we do the same with buses. Wear your seatbelt, except if you're on a bus, then we won't even give you a seatbelt. Buses operate much, much differently in a crash than in cars. Unless they roll over.
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Hugh Malone posted:anybody got that PSA from Australia or NZ where the unbuckled kid in the back becomes a projectile, killing him and his mom up front? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BN8QPRAudS0 Apparently it's British Here's a playlist of a bunch of Australian ones, including that one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=playlist PittTheElder fucked around with this message at 22:05 on Jul 5, 2019 |
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Yes, it's like a lava lamp.
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Do school buses have seat belts yet? I remember as a kid the best spot to ride was the seat directly over the rear axle because when the driver hit a pothole you'd get launched up to the ceiling. Seems absurd that the official NHTSA recommendation is for children to ride in a car seat or booster seat until they're 10 years old (seriously, look it up), but if it's a school bus bench seat lol just hold on tight kiddos
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FCKGW posted:Buses operate much, much differently in a crash than in cars. Seriously. If you aren’t getting hit by a train or a full-speed semi, you’ll probably be okay in a bus. I drove a converted school bus to and from Burning Man one year (hauling a bunch of people’s camping gear), and during the drive back through the Texas hill country some deer darted in front of us and we hit one. Normally, that’d be a pretty severe wreck. But hitting that deer at 30mph didn’t even slow the bus down. It was like going over a short speed bump and we were able to continue driving without issue the rest of the way.
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Sagebrush posted:Do school buses have seat belts yet? I remember as a kid the best spot to ride was the seat directly over the rear axle because when the driver hit a pothole you'd get launched up to the ceiling. Seems absurd that the official NHTSA recommendation is for children to ride in a car seat or booster seat until they're 10 years old (seriously, look it up), but if it's a school bus bench seat lol just hold on tight kiddos I've ridden in a few school buses in the past few years because they were used to move people from parking to an event and they had seatbelts. Not that you need them as an adult because your knees are firmly jammed into the seat in front of you, so you aren't going anywhere.
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I've posted about this before, maybe in another thread, but I briefly worked for a guy who would compile research on traffic accidents for the state government to use. And he refused to wear his seatbelt. Naturally, he got in a wreck and went face-first through the windshield. He survived, but with significant brain damage. His wife divorced him, so he stalked her, ended up in jail for a bit, and eventually died in his sleep from complications related to, y'know, turbo-loving his frontal lobes because lol seatbelts y tho?
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Hugh Malone posted:anybody got that PSA from Australia or NZ where the unbuckled kid in the back becomes a projectile, killing him and his mom up front? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsPFJAiPe5M "he's going to hit her girlfriend so hard she end up with permanent brain damage" 
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Head explode.
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Powershift posted:There are actually cameras that track you based on the map of your cardiovascular system highlighted by the fluoride in your blood from the fluoride in the water and they also use it for mind control to make you consume more under capitalism. https://www.eff.org/pages/automated-license-plate-readers-alpr https://www.aclu.org/issues/privacy-technology/location-tracking/you-are-being-tracked https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/3k9bjj/license-plate-scanners-track-millions-of-drivers-to-catch-a-handful-of-criminals https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/26/16932350/ice-immigration-customs-license-plate-recognition-contract-vigilant-solutions
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"ACLU" sounds like something you just made up. I'm not clicking through to your conspiracy theory websites and getting cookies from god knows where. You're just paranoid. Anyways, remember OSHA?        
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Guys wait, what if this is secretly brilliant?
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It is, it distributes the weight over a larger area so the little wire handle doesn't hurt your hand.
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Who the hell has double open ended wre- oh right i do, Flare nut wrenches. Carry on then.
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MRC48B posted:Who the hell has double open ended wre- Combination wrenches weren't a thing until the 30s, cyka blyat.
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Americans destroy the environment creating plastic handles to slip on/clip onto pail handles to help distribute the weight. The russians used and reused a wrench 
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Wingnut Ninja posted:Learning how to steer in a slide in Grand Theft Auto really did help for the times that I've slid on ice in real life.
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CannonFodder posted:I thought newer US cars would sense if the seat belt is latched and disable the airbag if the belt is not latched. Maybe that's just for the passenger side. The passenger airbag disables if there is no weight detected in the passenger seat. Mostly because passenger airbags are fuckoff huge and wreck your car/life.
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