LanyrdSkynrd [comrade/them, any]@hexbear.net to cars@hexbear.netEnglish · 3 days agoCybertruck totalled by e-scooter, resulting in 100k losshexbear.netimagemessage-square90fedilinkarrow-up1166arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up1166arrow-down1imageCybertruck totalled by e-scooter, resulting in 100k losshexbear.netLanyrdSkynrd [comrade/them, any]@hexbear.net to cars@hexbear.netEnglish · 3 days agomessage-square90fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarechristian [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·3 days agoMy next question is are a car’s airbags supposed to go off if it gets “sideswiped by an e-scooter”?
minus-squareFeinsteins_Ghost [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·edit-23 days agoTbf I’m old enough to have set off airbags on strangers vehicles with a well placed kick to the drivers side headlight when they were first released. They are no longer this way, but they used to be. Just some perspective.
minus-squareJustSo [she/her, any]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·3 days agoHaha yeah I remember those good old days. One well placed basketball to the front of a car would be a writeoff. Good times.
minus-squareTwitches@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·3 days agoMy wife hit a concrete mailbox doing like 5 mph, 8 kph and all the airbags went off. All depends on how its hit.
My next question is are a car’s airbags supposed to go off if it gets “sideswiped by an e-scooter”?
Tbf I’m old enough to have set off airbags on strangers vehicles with a well placed kick to the drivers side headlight when they were first released. They are no longer this way, but they used to be.
Just some perspective.
Haha yeah I remember those good old days. One well placed basketball to the front of a car would be a writeoff. Good times.
My wife hit a concrete mailbox doing like 5 mph, 8 kph and all the airbags went off. All depends on how its hit.