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[-] Pumafred9@lemmy.world 73 points 9 months ago

You should say something else.

[-] MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 32 points 9 months ago
[-] MaxHardwood@lemmy.ca 10 points 9 months ago

Surely they didn't mean that

[-] CosmicTurtle@lemmy.world 18 points 9 months ago

I did mean that. And don't call me Shirley.

[-] MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 6 points 9 months ago

Roger, Roger. What's our vector, Victor?

[-] 100_percent_a_bot@lemmy.world 32 points 9 months ago

Claymore at home:

[-] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 26 points 9 months ago
[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 12 points 9 months ago

FRONT TOWARD ENEMY

[-] Xtallll@lemmy.world 26 points 9 months ago

Bedazzled steering wheels are like hunting with Dick Cheney, there's always a chance you are going to get a face full of bird shot.

[-] bleistift2@feddit.de 4 points 9 months ago

Surely airbags are constructed in a way that doesn’t include slamming the hard plastic into your face?

I’ll retract that question mark. Designing it that way would just be too dumb.

[-] habitualTartare@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago

Most are designed for the cover to move to the side when deployed but some are designed to split in some way that could cause the rhinestones to come free.

[-] poppy@lemm.ee 4 points 9 months ago

I’ve seen the occasional post where the front plate burned/branded people’s hands during deployment if they were holding the steering wheel.

https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/p9fqr9/honda_logo_burned_into_my_hand_from_steering/

Also an article about people getting injured from the bezazzling!

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/steering-wheel-cover-rhinestones-nhtsa/

[-] Xtallll@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

An airbag is just a carefuly sized explosion instead of a kevlar pillow case, in a crash the airbag is deployed in a fraction of a second, lots of engineering goes into making them safe. However, the rind sones aren't an intended part of the system and can be separated from the wheel and "knocked" out of the way at high speeds, much like ball barberings in a claymore.

[-] Centillionaire@kbin.social 26 points 9 months ago

Bedazzling and crazy long finger nails is just a fedora cargo shorts for women.

I love those long fingernails, but then I also like cargo shorts, so ok

[-] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 23 points 9 months ago

Told a couple once "Just so you know, in an accident the clipboard you've got glued to your dashboard will hit you right in the face as the airbag explodes madam, so it might be a good idea to remove it."

She looked at me with huge eyes then turned to her husband who was looking straight ahead with an annoyed look on his face, they took off and the clipboard was still there on their next visit...

[-] poppy@lemm.ee 7 points 9 months ago

Do you know what the hell it was used for?? Did they like…pin old school Map Quest instructions to it?

[-] citrusface@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

I've seen people do it to jot down plates of litterbugs

[-] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Probably used to hold reports for an on the road job

[-] Chef@sh.itjust.works 21 points 9 months ago

This is purely a guess but I feel like the people who do this are probably also more likely to get into an accident where the airbag would deploy.

[-] KpntAutismus@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

darwinism hard at work.

[-] Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.works 18 points 9 months ago

The Engineers who invented the air bag to save lives

1000008261

[-] curlywurly@feddit.de 11 points 9 months ago

I'm one of those people that has never learned to drive and i know nothing about cars... I'm guessing from the comments that the joke here is that the stuff attached to the steering wheel will explode in the driver's face if the airbag is activated, is this right?

[-] terminhell@lemmy.world 22 points 9 months ago

Basically, they're converting an airbag into a shrapnel grenade.

[-] Witchfire@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Rhinestones aren't really that sharp though (unless they're the really nice glass ones which I'm assuming these are not). It's also likely that at least the first two are plastic backed sheets. I can't imagine they'd be worse than the sharp metal logo usually on there.

Disclaimer: I know more about rhinestones than cars, which isn't a lot

Rhinestone sheet

[-] panda_paddle@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago

The airbag deploys at 200 mph. At that speed the sharpness isn't really the issue.

[-] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 8 points 9 months ago

ha, they will be pretty no more if those bags go off

[-] MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 4 points 9 months ago

Pretty bloody

[-] Enoblk@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

Really all it's going to do is slap your hand with the bedazzled parts, I doubt there is enough energy to make them all fly unless they are pretty loose. But it would still hurt like hell cause I had a Toyota logo on the back of my hand after getting hit by the airbag in my car.

[-] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

Those logo bruises are a thing. Imagine how much worse these would be if the logo was bedazzled.

[-] KpntAutismus@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

i would love to be branded with a toyota-logo tbh. but these seem like they heal without much scarring.

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