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Originally Posted by johnlvs2run
Corrected your post. 
Check the internet. It's available to everyone. |
Yeah.
The internet is the single greatest source of misinformation and deliberate disinformation.
It's also a great source of good information though.
The problem is in the filtering.
Even with the Euro airbags, there is some collateral damage when they deploy during a crash. There's no denying that, it happens.
Fingers and arms can break, tendons can get ripped and you can get burns on the wrists. Glasses get pushed against your face.
With the US versions being larger, requiring a larger charge to deploy to the larger size in the same time span, these effects will be a bit worse.
It still beats smashing your skull or your body into the steering wheel though.
Using a wee bit of common sense, airbag injuries (
in a crash !) can be greatly reduced.
Hold the rim / bevel of the steering wheel, and where provided, hold it so that your thumbs fall into the indents for them.
Don't hold on to the spokes of the steering wheel.
Don't hold the wheel in such a way that your fingers are on the inside of the rim, but keep 'm on the outside or "on top" of the rim.
Keep arms away between the airbag and your face / body.
I've been told UK driving schools teach mandatory pull-push steering technique because that method greatly avoids getting your arms in the wrong place.
Using pull-push, airbag deployment will push your arms away to the sides.
That's opposed to hand-over-hand steering that puts your arms right in front of the airbag, and will break them / smash them into your face when the airbag deploys at that very moment.
Don't smoke in the car, especially, don't smoke a pipe while driving.
Don't chew on pens etc either
Airbags, like seatbelts, have been proven time and again to greatly reduce crash injuries.
It'd be far easier on car manufacturers when they didn't have to bother with them. But they'd quite literally lose customers when they deleted them.
In Belgium, a car fails the mandatory, periodic technical test when airbags are removed or not re-installed after having been used.