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Do you allow your passenger to prop their legs on the dash or out the window?
« on: August 28, 2013, 08:43:17 pm »
Do you let your front seat passenger prop their legs up on the dash or out he window?  Simple question, but the location of the passenger side airbag(s) brings the safety of this practice into question.

So be honest....does it bug you, or has it even occurred to you?
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Re: Do you allow your passenger to prop their legs on the dash or out the window?
« Reply #1 on: August 28, 2013, 08:53:00 pm »
Hell no!!  And putting feet on the dash is a huge HELL NO!!

A guy I knew on a sportbike used to grab people's feet hanging out the windows.  Used to scare the crap out of them!!

In an accident this would be terrible!!  Go look at that post of someone's foot on the dash during airbag deployment....Let me find it.



GRAPHIC PHOTOS AND STORY OF WHAT HAPPENS WHEN FOOT IS ON DASH AND AIRBAG DEPLOYS:  http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2013/02/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-trauma-surgeon-get-your-foot-off-of-my-dash/

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Re: Do you allow your passenger to prop their legs on the dash or out the window?
« Reply #2 on: August 28, 2013, 08:54:47 pm »
Depends how good the passenger's legs are!
There are lots of things passengers can do while you're driving that are immensely dangerous...  :D
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Re: Do you allow your passenger to prop their legs on the dash or out the window?
« Reply #3 on: August 28, 2013, 08:57:40 pm »
Nope, not allowed in our car.

A fairly minor accident could result in a broken pelvis or femur, dislocated hip, broken ankle or apparently head injuries if the knee is blown back into the passenger's face.
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Re: Do you allow your passenger to prop their legs on the dash or out the window?
« Reply #4 on: August 28, 2013, 08:58:40 pm »
Quote from: Sir Osis of Liver on August 28, 2013, 08:57:40 pm
Nope, not allowed in our car.

A fairly minor accident could result in a broken pelvis or femur, dislocated hip, broken ankle or apparently head injuries if the knee is blown back into the passenger's face.

In the story I linked to....the airbag deployed and shot the foot through the windshield like a rocket.  You can imagine the damage to a foot being forced through a car's windshield...
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Re: Do you allow your passenger to prop their legs on the dash or out the window?
« Reply #5 on: August 28, 2013, 08:58:47 pm »
Never. No respect for my car, not worth my time.
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Re: Do you allow your passenger to prop their legs on the dash or out the window?
« Reply #6 on: August 28, 2013, 09:16:41 pm »
Quote from: rrocket on August 28, 2013, 08:58:40 pm
Quote from: Sir Osis of Liver on August 28, 2013, 08:57:40 pm
Nope, not allowed in our car.

A fairly minor accident could result in a broken pelvis or femur, dislocated hip, broken ankle or apparently head injuries if the knee is blown back into the passenger's face.

In the story I linked to....the airbag deployed and shot the foot through the windshield like a rocket.  You can imagine the damage to a foot being forced through a car's windshield...

Most people have no clue how hard an airbag deploys.

They had an info night at the local Subaru dealer and they demonstrated steering wheel and dash airbags deploying. A bunch of people there were flabbergasted by how violently they went off.
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Re: Do you allow your passenger to prop their legs on the dash or out the window?
« Reply #7 on: August 28, 2013, 09:17:27 pm »
Quote from: JacobBlack on August 28, 2013, 08:54:47 pm
Depends how good the passenger's legs are!
There are lots of things passengers can do while you're driving that are immensely dangerous...  :D

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the other week on my way to banff, i saw a driver who put her leg out the window.... 
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Re: Do you allow your passenger to prop their legs on the dash or out the window?
« Reply #8 on: August 28, 2013, 09:17:58 pm »
No way and scratch my dash and/or painted window sills?    I tell my daughter not to knit in the passenger seat.
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Re: Do you allow your passenger to prop their legs on the dash or out the window?
« Reply #9 on: August 28, 2013, 09:19:17 pm »
A guy at work has a Volvo.  The one time he asked me to check out his car, there were footprints all over the windshield in front of the passenger seat.

I almost hurled.
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Re: Do you allow your passenger to prop their legs on the dash or out the window?
« Reply #10 on: August 28, 2013, 09:21:52 pm »
Quote from: rrocket on August 28, 2013, 09:19:17 pm
A guy at work has a Volvo.  The one time he asked me to check out his car, there were footprints all over the windshield in front of the passenger seat.

I almost hurled.

Did the windshield smell like old stinky feet?

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Re: Do you allow your passenger to prop their legs on the dash or out the window?
« Reply #11 on: August 28, 2013, 09:23:18 pm »
Quote from: rrocket on August 28, 2013, 09:19:17 pm
A guy at work has a Volvo.  The one time he asked me to check out his car, there were footprints all over the windshield in front of the passenger seat.

I almost hurled.

I've had that happen, but the car wasn't in motion at the time. It was also a long, long time ago. ;D
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Re: Do you allow your passenger to prop their legs on the dash or out the window?
« Reply #12 on: August 28, 2013, 09:23:33 pm »
Anyone I know would know not to even think about that.
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Re: Do you allow your passenger to prop their legs on the dash or out the window?
« Reply #13 on: August 28, 2013, 09:23:55 pm »
Never, no exceptions...I don't even want a relationship with people who know people that do that. It might be the one thing that could cause me to commit murder on the spot. I had an employee once who was car shopping and said that his wife would take off her shoes in each car they test drove to see how comfortable it was to put her feet on the dash. I couldn't help myself – I made...insensitive comments about his wife's genetics and his choice in wives. I apologized later but didn't mean it.  :-X
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Re: Do you allow your passenger to prop their legs on the dash or out the window?
« Reply #14 on: August 28, 2013, 09:44:37 pm »
I'm grateful my wife doesn't do this in the car.  Those airbags have a lot of force in them. 

I recall reading an article waaay back from a professional driver who said that he drove cars equipped with an airbag at the 4 o'clock and 7 o'clock position so that if the airbag goes off, his arms are forced down to his lap and not up over this head. It sounds safer. I've always  wondered if this is true and how this can be proved either way.
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Re: Do you allow your passenger to prop their legs on the dash or out the window?
« Reply #15 on: August 28, 2013, 09:47:13 pm »
Quote from: phazotron on August 28, 2013, 09:44:37 pm
I'm grateful my wife doesn't do this in the car.  Those airbags have a lot of force in them. 

I recall reading an article waaay back from a professional driver who said that he drove cars equipped with an airbag at the 4 o'clock and 7 o'clock position so that if the airbag goes off, his arms are forced down to his lap and not up over this head. It sounds safer. I've always  wondered if this is true and how this can be proved either way.

They sure do!!  When you see the airbag prank videos of 200lb guys getting launched 5 feet into the air....you know those airbags have power!
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Re: Do you allow your passenger to prop their legs on the dash or out the window?
« Reply #16 on: August 28, 2013, 09:55:22 pm »
Quote from: rrocket on August 28, 2013, 09:47:13 pm
Quote from: phazotron on August 28, 2013, 09:44:37 pm
I'm grateful my wife doesn't do this in the car.  Those airbags have a lot of force in them. 

I recall reading an article waaay back from a professional driver who said that he drove cars equipped with an airbag at the 4 o'clock and 7 o'clock position so that if the airbag goes off, his arms are forced down to his lap and not up over this head. It sounds safer. I've always  wondered if this is true and how this can be proved either way.

They sure do!!  When you see the airbag prank videos of 200lb guys getting launched 5 feet into the air....you know those airbags have power!

There's a scene in one of the "Dumbest Stuff on Wheels" episodes (I love this show!) where this big guy blows an airbag underneath a riding mower and lands on his head.
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Re: Do you allow your passenger to prop their legs on the dash or out the window?
« Reply #17 on: August 28, 2013, 10:04:46 pm »
I used to in my own car when my girlfriend was driving. But these were old cars. But after hearing about someone flying through the windshield in I don't remember an emergency brake or accident situation, not anymore.

I try not to rest my head against the B pillar either because of the side airbags.
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Re: Do you allow your passenger to prop their legs on the dash or out the window?
« Reply #18 on: August 28, 2013, 10:18:25 pm »
Quote from: DKaz on August 28, 2013, 10:04:46 pm

I try not to rest my head against the B pillar either because of the side airbags.

True, and the warnings pasted all over inside the car and in the manual warn against rear seat passengers leaning against the side also.  Makes me think that kids dislike traveling in cars more than we did because while they're stuck in one position, we could lounge all over including laying on the rear window shelf.

I don't allow passengers to put their feet on the dash.  Kids have to be warned about this because they don't know about these things.
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Re: Do you allow your passenger to prop their legs on the dash or out the window?
« Reply #19 on: August 28, 2013, 11:30:36 pm »
Jees, is there any safe place in your car where the airbags can't get you?
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