Blame Chris Kyle for introducing the idea of Punisher skulls as their Navy SEAL unofficial emblem.
Excellent product idea, inspires me for some others:
Punisher airbag-knife, specially designed to deflate those pesky government-mandated airbags. Did you know airbags kill people sometimes? Protect yourself by getting rid of them!
Punisher-themed electric bathtub hot dog grill, because it's my God given right to enjoy an American classic whenever and wherever I feel like it.
Punisher-themed fire alarm sound insulating boxes. Pairs great with the electric bathtub hot dog grill
Did you know airbags kill people sometimes?
Did you know unbuckled seatbelts are supposed to disable or reduce the action of airbags? Because if you crash hard enough to trigger the airbags, the lack of a seatbelt may make impact with the airbag WORSE than impact with the steering wheel. This is quite the killer device.
I haven't checked the validity of your statement, but I'd guess this is because airbags are calibrated to go off with the assumption that the occupant is wearing a seatbelt. Airbags should only activate if a collision is hard enough that a person wearing a seatbelt is likely to impact the inside of the car. Without a seatbelt you will not only injure yourself bouncing around the car on a much lower collision speed, but also likely not be in a position the airbag expects you to be when it activates.
This is not my field, so this information comes from articles I've read over the years: when they first introduced this functionality, it was explained plainly as: your kinetic energy + the kinetic energy of the expanding airbag > your kinetic energy + negative energy absorbed by the deflating airbag.
Nowadays I gather that things are more complicated, but still, the status of your seatbelt is part of the data your car uses to choose a protection strategy for you. Fooling it with devices like this goes against your own interest twice.
Screw right wing punisher dudes.
Seat belt should be used on every drive.
That said, I think it's ridiculous police can charge and make revenue for protecting people from themselves. Education I support, hard enforcement not so much.
Seatbelts reduce the risk (chance) of accidents happening in the first place not only reduce the risk of injury in an accident. They hold the driver in place during rapid movements like trying to evade an sudden obstacle. Without the seatbelt the driver might lose control of the steering wheel.
A driver not using a seatbelt is a risk for everyone else on the road. It absolutely should be a punishable offence to drive without.
I don't want to be hit by someone who decided they were okay becoming a projectile
Sshh. Just leave them be. This device will help the gene pool.
Sure, let people make their own life or death decisions. This is fine until the death toll starts mounting up and then suddenly relatives and friends of the dead, who can't fathom that the deceased was an idiot and made their own choice, suddenly start moaning that the government should be doing more to save lives etc. So laws get passed and enforced, and "freedom first" Americans start bitching that the government shouldn't tell them what to do... thus the cycle continues.
Just wear your seatbelt. It's not difficult or inconvenient. Save your energy to rise up about things that matter.
Also seat belts reduce the per incident medical costs of traffic accidents, thus ostensibly reducing insurance costs. In all likelihood not cus why wouldn't they charge more, but in a rational system it would.
source (that I randomly found and skimmed admittedly):
The problem comes when those laws are used arbitrarily towards one demographic and not just everyone. Any laws written to be discretionary are inherently bigoted.
Comes with two bottle openers. Perfect for double fisting while driving
Seatbelt fatalities are like 2%. Ejection fatalities are 83%. The odds are far more favorable to just wear the damn things.
These are the same people that didn't give vaccines to their kids.
My Subaru could use that for literally anything placed on the passenger seat. Putting your cellphone on the seat will likely set off the dinging.
Mine too. There was a recall years ago for that issue on my model but I didn't take it in as I hadn't developed the problem yet. Yesterday my water bottle set it off. I mostly ride with the passenger seatbelt buckled now.
This is literally the only valid reason for such a product, and unfortunately is also the loophole most vendors use in order for these to be legal to sell.
My Volt is insane about this. 3 sheets of paper? alert. cell phone calbe? alert. Car Keys? fine. fast food? fine as long as it's not pizza. I can lay three chesesteaks on the seat and it DGAF, one slice of 7-11 pizza? we're all gonna die.
I've found a good smack tends to get the sensors to calm down.
Guess they're not manly enough to just snip whatever wire is going to it.
On an tangentially related note, one thing that Georgia (the country) has taught me is to always check buckle first before pulling the belt when riding an Uber or any local taxi. Used to pull belt instinctively right away, but in there, too often have I found that, while the belt is still present, the buckle has been completely removed and the driver being visibly annoyed seeing me fumbling trying to find it. I didn't fuss about it, though, the city traffic was so slow I didn't feel unsafe without one, the road police was non-existent(=no fines), and it's not really my business as a tourist to tell locals how to drive.
Whenever I see this logo in an obviously right-wing context I think of Big Shot. It's almost like the character was created for these idiotic Punisher-worshipping fascists.
Tangentially related, the love action "The Tick" went way harder than it has any right to. Kinda sucks it's only on prime now. I might be a statistical insignificant piss ant, but I have existed without directly contributing to the evil that is Amazon so far and I don't plan on breaking that streak
No need to give money to Amazon to see Amazon Prime shows. 🏴☠️
Every Republican I personally know breaks laws like these all the time, and yet when a cop murders someone they say "they shouldn't have broken the law"
I have one for when my fatass dog rides with me. She's heavy enough to make it beep if the seat is unbuckled.
There are dog harnesses that tie into the seatbelt if you ever want to go the other way with this. we used to use one for our boxer and it helped make him less of a distraction and calmed him down re: the car shifting his weight around.
Yeah, I know about those, but she moves around playing musical chairs to look out all the windows
That's the point of the alarm though. To alert you that there's something heavy enough to cause death or injury when it goes ping-ponging around the cabin in a crash.
Complete with bottle opener! Now you can drive drunk without that annoying chime to remind you to put your seatbelt on!
That was the first thing I noticed. It looks like a bad design for plausible deniability; i feel like you'd have to eject it to open your beer while driving.
Surprised it doesn't come wrapped in Paracord, with a knife and a window breaker. Full tactical seatbelt avoidance.
If you don't wear your seatbelt you become the window breaker.
Surprised it doesn't come wrapped in Paracord, with a knife and a window breaker
Putting anything actually useful on it is antithetical to its purpose
I've flipped two cars. The only injury I had from those two incidents was cutting my finger in safety glass due to my own stupidity. The major down side to seatbelts is that they are difficult to undo when your car is upside down. The benefit of seatbelts is that they let you complain on the Internet about how hard it is to undo your seatbelt when upside down.
I would only use this for the passenger seat when I put heavy things in it for transport. Usually just buckle behind the item though.
a highway patrol captain gave a safety seminar at my old job, and I still remember what he said about seatbelts - after decades on the highway, working countless crash scenes, he had only had to un-buckle one dead person from a crash. All of the other dead people in crashes were not wearing theirs.
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