Failure of airbag deployment

[Betrivent]

The SUV argument is selfish. It's understandable people want to be "safer" but then when everybody gets an SUV, you're all in the same boat again. if everybody drove lighter/smaller cars there'd be guaranteed a reduced rate of fatality. But because one person goes and wants to be "extra" safe, it ruins it for everybody else. My brother-in-law has this mentality as well, and it infuriates me. He's all about the heavier, older buicks because he was rear ended once and he felt nothing. Great. What about the next time THAT car hits somebody?

/rant

EDIT: Back on topic of airbags. If you hit something that was DIRECTLY center of the car and affected only the center, and caused the engine to be pushed back, the airbags may not have been deployed. Why? The sensors are on the frame rails to EITHER SIDE of the engine.

[41magmag41]

Originally Posted by Betrivent

The SUV argument is selfish. It's understandable people want to be "safer" but then when everybody gets an SUV, you're all in the same boat again. if everybody drove lighter/smaller cars there'd be guaranteed a reduced rate of fatality. But because one person goes and wants to be "extra" safe, it ruins it for everybody else. My brother-in-law has this mentality as well, and it infuriates me. He's all about the heavier, older buicks because he was rear ended once and he felt nothing. Great. What about the next time THAT car hits somebody?

/rant

EDIT: Back on topic of airbags. If you hit something that was DIRECTLY center of the car and affected only the center, and caused the engine to be pushed back, the airbags may not have been deployed. Why? The sensors are on the frame rails to EITHER SIDE of the engine.

Again, monday morning quarterback. The entire nose of the car along with the frame rails was pushed back almost to the firewall. The airbags should have deployed.

And as far as the SUV comment, the last time I looked I still lived in a society that allowed me to drive whatever I felt like. Some more name calling and missing the point of the post.