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Just remember. If your vehicle is equipped with airbags and you start pushing things around with the front bumper you may have them going off. An airbag in the face will momentarily incapacitate you and may disable your vehicle. Make your defensive decisions with this consideration.

2farnorth wrote:Just remember. If your vehicle is equipped with airbags and you start pushing things around with the front bumper you may have them going off. An airbag in the face will momentarily incapacitate you and may disable your vehicle. Make your defensive decisions with this consideration.

Very good point! I had not thought of that possibility.

2farnorth wrote:Just remember. If your vehicle is equipped with airbags and you start pushing things around with the front bumper you may have them going off. An airbag in the face will momentarily incapacitate you and may disable your vehicle. Make your defensive decisions with this consideration.

The technology behind air bag deployment has moved far beyond bumper mounted sensors, as was explained to me by a Ford Technician as it applies to my Super Duty. They are not as sensitive to bumper impacts like the older sensors. He told me that simply pushing a vehicle out of the way would likely not trigger an airbag deployment. One reason they went with different sensor designs is that my Super Duty is also equipped with rollover bags in the ceiling next to the door jamb to protect occupants from rollover crashes in the higher clearance 4x4 vehicles. If I remember correctly the sensor is in the cab.

You need to understand what your vehicle will and will not do. Know all your options and be situationally aware.

Besides, not all road racers will necessarily be in front. Side and rear collissions rarely set off airbags.If the eager is behind you and is threatening your life go destruction derby on them!

Mrs Anygun tangled with an empty 18 wheeler gravel truck last week. The truck trailer nearly peeled off the driver side from the passenger door to the front fender. 3 more inches over and the rear trailer wheels would have rolled over the car. She is fine. No air bag deployment.

Okay, that's good to know. My 99 Chevy may still be old school though. Don't know when it changed from just crush sensors in the front. Understand they now have a separate processor that decides if airbag deployment is warranted depending on what various sensors indicate. Don't know if I would take a chance on pushing something in front.