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I have not been a believer in air bags in the past, and am not one now after my experience of Tuesday night. I think driver-side air bags are enough of a danger to enough people that they should not be standard equipment on vehicles. If I were given the choice, were I to buy a new car, I'd choose to not have an airbag. Passenger side air bags *kill* children. I definitely don't want a safety device on my car which might kill my son. If I get a newer car, I'll be trying to find someone who can disable the passenger side airbag for me. I'd prefer not to get a car that new. On my old car, the air bag shouldn't have gone off. A newer car has sensors which would have prevented the air bag from deploying for that type of accident. How are those sensors going to work on present-day new cars when they're 10 or 15 years old? I wouldn't bet on them working very well. Once the air bag goes off, the car is essentially ruined. The assessor told me it costs $1500 just to replace the airbag, once it's gone off. Insurance companies typically total the car, even cars only a couple of years old, *just* because the airbag went off, according to the man who originally towed my car.
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