Air Bags

Nov 04, 2005 39 Replies

As long as you bring up politics (I knew it wouldn't be long before you did), what is it with you right-wing zealots, spinning the facts to fit your agenda because you have to maintain the illusion that you are never wrong?

"The buck's rear legs were right at the center-mounted license plate, he wrapped over the hood, glanced off the driver's side of the car taking the mirror with him. Both airbags deployed. Peak change in velocity was 2.63mph, but it showed 1.54 at the first data-point. "

Nowhere did the article state the car was going LESS than three miles per hour. The figure you are citing is the change in velocity (in this case, deceleration), not vehicle speed. The article doesn't state the vehicle speed of this car at collision, but anyone with eyes can tell he was going WAY more than 3mph by looking at the damage.

Your train of thought derailed again.

Was the '58 Ford doing less than three mph?

If what I guess you are blathering about is right, then sure, if the hammer was big enough, but I don't have an airbag switch. It's irrelevent as usual.

Are you now stammeringly suggesting that the Sunfire was parked and the deer ran into it?

On Tue, 8 Nov 2005 21:23:12 -0500, the following appeared in rec.autos.makers.jeep+willys, posted by "Matt Macchiarolo" :

Strangely enough, this actually happened to a friend of mine, in daylight. He saw the deer near the road and stopped, and the deer (a buck with an impressive rack) ran at high speed into the side of the front fender, rolled across the hood, fell off the other side, got up and took off. No apparent damage to the deer (at least, he couldn't find it or any sign of blood), but the damage to the car was almost $2k. (No airbag deployment.) Deer seem to be about as stupid as horses.

Yes, I was quoting the referenced website that Bill provided.

But in the case of this particular Sunfire, the article states the deer's rear legs made contact with the vehicle first. I doubt he backed into it hard enough to deploy the airbags!

You haven't yet repeated what the article said. You repeated what you thought it said.

"The buck's rear legs were right at the center-mounted license plate, he wrapped over the hood, glanced off the driver's side of the car taking the mirror with him. Both airbags deployed. Peak change in velocity was 2.63mph, but it showed 1.54 at the first data-point. "

Where does it say the vehicle speed? Hint: Change in velocity means acceleration or deceleration, not speed. Try again.

On Wed, 9 Nov 2005 23:17:10 -0500, the following appeared in rec.autos.makers.jeep+willys, posted by "Matt Macchiarolo" :

Yeah, that's probably correct...

How about it? Didn't see any deer hit from behind in that video. Try staying on topic for a change.

Does Macchiarolo look like a French name, Mr. Irrelevent?

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