On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 10:32 PM, Paul Stenquist <pnstenqu...@comcast.net> wrote: > That car wouldn't be a total write off in the states. It would appear that > the damage is largely cosmetic. Air bags generally deploy on violent side > impacts or sever deceleration. You can have a pretty serious accident > without airbag deployment. Thankfully. Airbags are expensive.
And the flip side of that is that we've all heard of airbags being deployed by minimal, inconsequential parking lot contact (or nothing!). cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.