Originally Posted By: fdcg27
This is a false dialectic.
A very experienced and attentive driver might well find themselves in a position where a collision is unavoidable.
Kind of like the two guys who got killed on an icy spot of I-75 north of the I-271 loop in the early morning darkness last Thursday by an out of control tractor trailer rig, although no amount of airbags would have helped them nor can you really blame the truck driver for running into unanticipated ice on the roadway.
Airbags represent a second layer of defense in protecting life and limb in situations where no amount of skill, awareness and attentiveness would have prevented the collision.
Nothing at all to do with driver training or skills.
This is the point I made a year or so back in a thread on riding bikes in traffic after we saw one co-worker die and another sustain helo ride and ICU level injuries in bike accidents that weren't their fault.
I-75 is a death road, I was thanking the Man Upstairs that I was out of town last week, I'm up there all the time north of I-275. All the money in the world wouldn't put me on a bike on the interstate here, NO WAY!