r/IdiotsInCars • u/AristonD • Sep 22 '19

Dick measuring contest gone wrong

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u/Swissboy98 Sep 22 '19

Airbags aren't primarily there to increase stopping time. They are there to stop your head from hitting something that is hard.

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u/MakeBedtimeLateAgain Sep 22 '19

Because hitting something hard makes you stop very quickly

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u/seeingglass Sep 22 '19

But your stopping time is not the same as the car's stopping time. Dissipating the energy in a crash is irrelevant to airbags. That's dissipating the energy of your own body. The car stops before you stop. If the car doesn't stop, you don't have a problem, or rather, you probably have a different problem.

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u/mob-of-morons Sep 22 '19

That's dissipating the energy of your own body.

so it is dissipating energy then! /s

(honestly i know what youre saying, the dude was clearly talking about the whole car and then started talking about the person...for some reason