alt Hacker NewsAirbags do not kill people. There were fewer than 300 airbag-related deaths of the course of two decades, and the vast majority of those deaths were caused by not wearing a seatbelt.
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vkou • today at 1:54 AM
> Airbags do not kill people.
> fewer than 300 airbag-related deaths
So, they do kill people.
They kill people at a low enough rate that make them both worth installing, and mandating, compared to the alternatives.
dpark • today at 12:10 AM
And in that time how many deaths were attributed to laminate glass?
Frontal airbags, generally speaking, make people who would've died survive and make people who would've walked away with nothing look like they went a few rounds with a professional boxer. It's a flattening effect.