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Compressed foam balls, laced with the usual sodium azide,
potassium nitrate and silica dioxide, mounted in a number of
layers in the ceiling (headlining) of the passenger cabin and
wired with a grid of initiators.
Experience an accident hard enough to trigger the airbag and
the cabin of the
car fills practically instantly with nerf balls
too big to swallow.
Open the doors and they pour out of the car, in similar
fashion to those sometimes seen coming out of circus clowns'
cars.
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Hi Bubba-butt. This sounds better than those
existing nasty airbags. They are brutal on the body. |
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Aieeee ! Run ! Run for your lives, and don't look back ! |
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And the displaced air formerly occupying the space in the car does what... |
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[Rayford] surely the same activating sensor can be used to open a venting duct large enough to prevent pressure build up. |
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[UnaBubba] equally imaginably hilarious as it would be practically useful; genius (+!). |
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If action movies have taught me anything it's that current air bag designs allow continued vehicle control after the collision. Perhaps this idea could be for level 2 collisions, in which the computer decides that continued vehicle control would be useless. Anyway, have a bun. |
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Cool.
There was a Sci.Fi movie which had the entire vehicle fill with an instantly hardening foam that they had to free themselves from after a crash, but I can't remember which movie it was from. (+) |
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That wold be Demolition Man. |
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acurafan, that vent would probably need to be something on the order of expelling the roof, which I recommend against. |
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A simpler solution would be a bolt-gun set into the
headrest, which is activated by any serious collision.
If you think about, instantaneous death is no
problem at all, because the world just stops
existing. The only reason for having airbags is to
prevent painful or debilitating injury, not death. |
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oh, no, now I'm depressed... I thought killing UnaBubba was a video game... |
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A system could be devised for motorcyclists with the foam
erupting from the front of the seat, lightly held together
with Post-It glue. Even if it didn't work it would make a
beautiful mess. |
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The air compression pops out the windows,
[Rayford], as you are probably capable of imagining,
given your occupation. |
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Of course. Any compressive shockwave of this size
probably would. I just don't think I'd want to be
sitting in the middle of it at the time. |
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But I'm not here to be a buzzkill, just thinking out
loud. |
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Oh, it would be out loud when it went off, I'd
imagine. |
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You're just a frustrated Bond villain really, aren't you, [UB] ? |
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