Serious question. Wouldn't that little Nazi piece of shit have had to disconnect the air bags

[rzemanfl]

on his Dodge in order to be able to back away so fast? Premeditate much or am I missing something?

[icymist]

1. Good point. Could show intent. nt

[BASE]

8. Would definitely show intent nt

[The_Casual_Observer]

2. Oh he shut it off. He is a chicken shit kind of terrorist. He thought he could get away.

Instead of saving us the grief and snuffing himself like a good nazi.

[Gravitycollapse]

3. No, the force of a body impacting the car may not have been high enough to deploy airbags.

[yardwork]

4. He also hit two cars though.

[Gravitycollapse]

10. Yeah, it just depends on the force and speed of impact.

Airbags are not designed to go off under a given speed and force. If one or both of those were not exceeded, the airbags would not deploy.

I suppose it's possible he pulled the fuze for his airbags. But it's also possible they just didn't deploy.

[smirkymonkey]

11. Did you see the front of the car? I looked like it was in pretty bad shape.

I don't know exactly HOW much force it would take to deploy an airbag, but the damage looked pretty serious to me.

[Gravitycollapse]

17. It actually wasn't as bad as you would think. Mostly cosmetic.

It was mostly isolated to the front fascia, hood, and windshield. I think it might have just been right on the threshold of when an airbag would deploy. I'm not an expert though.

[rzemanfl]

18. Thank you for the picture. I found this on net-

The airbag is connected to a crash sensor, which will deploy the airbag if the car gets into a sufficiently severe crash, which is usually defined as a head-on and near-head-on crash at approximately 8 to 14 MPH.

[Gravitycollapse]

19. Yeah here's a good link with info...

https://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2010/05/airbags_deployment.html

[madokie]

25. plenty fast enough and hard enough to deploy the airbags

I've seen too many results of too many low speed accidents. I'd say he disabled the airbags somehow

But then again the airbags may have deployed and deflated as they're designed to immediately deflate

[Atman]

22. It's a Chrysler.

I'm surprised the whole car didn't crumble into a heap with the first impact.

[yardwork]

5. Good question!

[BASE]

6. I'm curious about that too

Maybe the people he hit slowed him down enough that there wasn't enough of an impact. There is also a crash sensing switch that kills the fuel pump in everything I've wrecked. You have to reset that thing before it will run if it trips.

[rzemanfl]

9. "In everything I've wrecked" kinda makes me not want to ask you for a ride. I did not know

about the fuel pump kill switch.

[BASE]

12. lol, that does sound bad

But the shutoff is a real thing and it's necessary to keep you from dying in a fire with fuel injected cars. gas spraying everywhere is a bad thing after a wreck.

[rzemanfl]

14. Make perfect sense. I started driving when cars had carburetors (except for Vette's a few Chevys).

[Hassin Bin Sober]

15. Fords used to be notorious for the switch activating on large bumps.

Not sure if that is still the case.

[Codeine]

20. Used to happen in my old Escort

all the time on a really raunchy section of the 10 freeway in Southern California. I had to pick a very specific path from lane to lane at that area to avoid having the car shutdown at freeway speed.

[Chellee]

23. Hey!

Nobody wants to ride with me either.

Yes, I've totaled several cars. But some of them barely even looked dented. Apparently, it's the way I dent them.

[speaktruthtopower]

7. Certainly something to be investigated

[Hassin Bin Sober]

13. Air bags do not remain inflated.

Are you saying the air bags didn't inflate?

Iirc, the bags deflate pretty quickly in case the car is still moving and needs to be controlled.

[rzemanfl]

16. He was able to back away really fast. That's all I know. Another poster says the fuel

pump also shuts down in a crash.

[Docreed2003]

26. Plus, in the pic above...

If the airbags had deployed, you should be able to see them, or at least the deflated bags...the steering wheel shows no signs of airbags in that pic!

[JonLP24]

21. k&r

[L. Coyote]

24. He had to make his way thru back streets and alleys. Premeditated w/o doubt.

[Brother Buzz]

27. That, or the seven buck-an-hour Nazi nightwatchman...

bought the biggest bling car he could afford: a high millage 2010 Dodge Challenger that was in a minor fender bender that blew the air bags and never got replaced.

[rzemanfl]

33. Could be, although someone here said he got some trust fund money. n/t

[ecstatic]

28. Good point. nt

[Stryst]

29. So, as I understand...

Acceleration/deceleration is measured in gravity (g). 1G equals the force of acceleration of the Earth's gravity well pulling at you. Full breaking from normal highway speeds produces about 0.6 g of acceleration force.

Since you don't want your airbags triggering during normal breaking, the switches are set much higher. Most airbags are triggered by small tubes that break at around 9-10 g, because most car collisions produce between 10-80 g of acceleration.

People are much softer than cars, and when they're hit, they get knocked away. This absorbs some of the acceleration force, so it's possible that when he hit the other car, the collision produced less than 10 g of acceleration.

The reason his bumper and hood were so messed up is because modern cars have purposeful failure points, like panels that crumple, and a bumper that flies away. This all absorbs that acceleration force during a collision, but it also means that even low impact collisions mess up your car.


I took college physics, and I kind of know cars, but take all of this with a grain of salt.

[ExciteBike66]

30. It's an FCA product, so they might just not have worked... nt

[malaise]

31. Brilliant point

Rec

[Orrex]

32. That is an amazing observation

I honestly don't think it would have occurred to me.

I'm skeptical that this murderous piece of shit thought far enough ahead to disable the airbags, but...

[onethatcares]

34. looks like the asshole had his

shoulder harness on.

Where are Tanaka airbags when you really need them???