Why airbags didnt open

It was in the script.

Sometimes they don't; it happens. I was in a wreck and the airbag on my side deployed, but the one on the passenger side didn't. My friend was hurt, not badly, but if the airbag had opened she probably wouldn't have been hurt at all. She suffered deep bruises and some broken ribs from the seat belt. Sometimes they don't work, all mechanical things share a common trait, they can fail.

This is a little off-topic, but one of the main reasons why we haven't been able to create a mechanical heart that is viable, is because of two main reasons, one because it's difficult to miniaturize the components enough so that it's mobile, and the second reason is the somewhat complex pumping mechanism is prone to failure. The pumping action involves lots of parts and it fails relatively quickly. A couple of doctors have come up with a new heart replacement that doesn't pump, it's a turbine. It is easy to miniaturize and because a turbine is a very simple mechanism it tends to last a very long time. Turbines are used in power plants and they are very sturdy devices. They have implanted these mechanisms in humans with great success.

Popular Science ran an article on this and one woman had it installed and all she had to carry is a battery in a back pack. A person had no pulse with this device, but has a normal blood pressure. The doctor(s) that made it believe this is the breakthrough we have been waiting for, but it took abandoning the pump to do it. In the article the doctor says, "nature isn't the best designer for things that man has to replace". I read that line a few times before I fully understood what he meant, and he's right. Nature (or in my case, I believe God) designs things perfectly, but some of the things created are very difficult to replicate by man. The heart is an amazing organ, it never stops beating our entire lives (until we are dead, that is). This muscle never rests, except for tiny fractions of a second between beats. It's AMAZING that it can do that, simply amazing. However, replicating that has been so difficult because creating a pumping mechanism that is small and very reliable is simply not possible now, and may be many, many years before it is. However, the turbine may end that need and allow many people who die of heart failure, while waiting for heart transplants, a real alternative that can give them new life. The great part about it is, there is no risk of tissue rejection. I think in five to ten years they will perfect this and people will be seen wearing that battery backpack living relatively normal lives. All it took - as they say in the Pop Sci article - is abandoning the goal of replicating the "lub-lub" of a normal heartbeat.


"...nothing is left of me, each time I see her..." - Catullus

Most cars only have airbag sensors in the front of the car. Thus the impact of the truck hitting the car would not have set off the airbags. Although it is shown the car hitting the pole. This is a script device.

Because she didn't have her seat belt on so the car went: *beep* it, I ain't saving this careless bitch" and left the airbags unopen.

You have to take into consideration of when this movie was supposed to take place. They were in their 20s and now they are in their 40s. So some vehicles back then did not have airbags in them. The producers might have wanted to make it as accurate as possible to the real story.

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They got stolen.


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