I like the ones that’re combo’d with bottle openers better. Really sells the disregard for everyone involved.
The one in the picture looks like it has bottle openers on either side of the skull.
I like that its sharp enough that it would probably cause an injury eventually
And it’s a skull, cause it’s a future self portrait.
Nah you might get burnt then it’s ash. If they’re driving a cyber truck then cremation would make more sense.
Cars don’t actually make very efficient crematoriums generally, it’s pretty horrific for everyone else involved.
Anything can be a bottle opener with a bit of practice.
I swear, I was just trying to open it and it slipped inside!
Just need to do more kegels.
Is that advice for men or women? The answer is yes.
yay, drunk driving and no seatbelt for a double ‘fuck myself and everyone else’ combo
Tbf even without the drinking it’s still a “… and everyone else”
Because when these dumbasses go flying through their windshield they sometimes live long enough to put a futile strain on our already fucked up heathcare system. And emergency service are not free.
a highway patrol captain gave a safety seminar at my old job, and I still remember what he said about seatbelts - after decades on the highway, working countless crash scenes, he had only had to un-buckle one dead person from a crash. All of the other dead people in crashes were not wearing theirs.
My seatbelt did save me. My work van got T-boned by a semi that blew a red light (dumb American traffic light highway intersection), and my belt saved me from getting a shifter knob added to my abdominal cavity.
Wear it, y’all.
Did they say what that number was?
1 out of 3, 1 out of 300…
I mean, when 100 cars crash into buildings every day across the US, its going to be a pretty high number of crashes they’ve reported to in any municipality
The captain was talking about their personal experience, which would be a very different number than the total in the municipality
I’ve flipped two cars. The only injury I had from those two incidents was cutting my finger in safety glass due to my own stupidity. The major down side to seatbelts is that they are difficult to undo when your car is upside down. The benefit of seatbelts is that they let you complain on the Internet about how hard it is to undo your seatbelt when upside down.
I read “flipped” as in “bought it cheap, fixed it up, sold it” and was mildly confused until I re-read it
If you’re upside-down isn’t a downside actually an upside for you?
how did you flip 2 times?!
Nobody took my license away.
… Fair enough
it seems like you ought to do that yourself after the second
Sadly, I don’t have a choice. My employer has consistently refused my requests for a 24/7 personal driver and US based public transportation is kinda garbage.
Because it makes me laugh, I may have been saved in a rollover because I was not wearing my seatbelt. My truck had Takata airbags, which I only know because after I rolled it I got the recall letter from ford letting me know. The recall is because they go off like a claymore and spray shrapnel.
I’m such a tough badass, I can’t stand the feeling of a cloth strap across my chest
They yearn for the harness and are just too insecure to admit to it
yes! don’t wear a seatbelt! break the rules! die in car accidents like a MAN!
a manly manly maaaaaaaaannnnnn
you little boys just wouldn’t understand.
Firstly, fuck the assholes who go into the whole right wing punisher bullshit. Just getting that part of this out of the way.
Secondly, wear your fucking seatbelt. It’s literally there to save your fucking life. And the lives of those around you. Just fucking do it.
But finally, there are legitimate uses for (non punisher themed, I guess) seat belt silencers. Because of her disabilities, my mom had to use one of these for most of my life. She was unable to wear the seatbelt. There are also autistic folks with doctors notes exempting them from it because of severe sensory issues. Also, have you never put a bag of groceries on the passenger seat, only to be annoyed to hell and back by the beeping?
For groceries, just buckle the seatbelt.
I could use one on my empty passenger seat because the sensor in the seat is defective(where it thinks there’s always a passenger) but i instead just buckle the seatbelt across the empty seat.
No, actually I don’t want right-wing assholes wearing their seat-belts. The sooner they take themselves out the better. Let them win the Darwin award.
Killing some innocent person with their body… Sweet 😑
Has that ever happened? Someone ejected from a car in a crash killed or injured someone else?
Well yes?
Classic is no seat belt in the back, children killing their parents (and dying), but there are also people flying out of the front windshield into the other frontal crashing car killing people in there.
We got laws for a reason, not just to jerk with people.
This should be something that you can disable through a setting in your vehicle. Don’t make me cut wires, or trick the system into thinking I’m buckled in… just let me turn off the beeping. If I’m in my car and I’m not wearing my seat belt, then I am fully aware that I’m in my car and not wearing a seat belt! It is so frustrating to spend tens of thousands of dollars on something that is specifically designed to annoy you.
And yes, I agree… wear your fucking seat belt! But, sometimes I’m just driving to the end of my driveway and will never get above 5 mph.
But then the idiots who buy there devices would use the setting when not needed, some would inevitably die, and they would sue the car makers for letting them turn off an obviously necessary safety device. At least with these things, it shows you’re disabling the safety device and so you’re on the hook when you end your journey flying through a sheet of glass and into traffic at 40 miles an hour.
This isn’t true. There are several car companies that let you disable the alert and they aren’t getting sued. The problem is that not every car company gives you the option to do so.
Yeah i was gonna say this.
I’d never drive while a passenger isn’t wearing a belt (notwithstanding the exceptions you mentioned).
However, it is kind of annoying i cant put things on the front passenger seat while I’m running errands.
Another example would be on farms. Forever getting in and out of the car for gates or what have you, feeding livestock, et cetera.
I think the punisher skull is a bit much though.
My father used to do this until I annoyed him the fuck out…or because the state gave him a large enough fine for him to realise seatbelts weren’t actually that uncomfortable.
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imagine public transportation being an option. america is insanely car dependent
Wow.
It’s hilariously ironic when people like that are repping the whole punisher iconography too because they’re the kind of people the punisher would go after.
What’s punisher and what’s the politics about it?
Punisher is a comic book character named Frank Castle. He’s an anti-hero who targets and kills criminals, but especially corrupt cops (the worst type of criminals). Right wingers, and cops, have co-opted his logo (the Skull) because Punisher is a badass and they think it makes them look like badasses. They either aren’t aware that he hates cops, and most things right wingers like, or they just aren’t self-aware enough to realize that Frank would likely beat the shit out of them if he saw them using his skull.
Thus is covered in the Daredevil show that came out a few months ago. It was pretty good.
Every Republican I personally know breaks laws like these all the time, and yet when a cop murders someone they say “they shouldn’t have broken the law”
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It’s pretty obvious this one in particular is for idiots, but my car’s detect person sensor is so sensitive that it goes off when I have towels in the backseat. My solution was to leave the seatbelts plugged in all the time, but a decorative seatbelt silencer might have been nice. The plugged in seatbelt interferes with the middle seat drop down cupholder, so anytime I have a passenger with a cup we all have to deal with the alarm if they don’t put the seatbelt back in after lowering the cupholder.
Maybe a rainbow one or something. Make it obvious so it doesn’t get lost in a sea of black carpets.
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I did a quick google search, and they’re all “rawr I’m masculine and drink a lot” with a dash of ai-generated “this is safer because beeping is distracting please buy my stuff” articles. Nothing with rainbows. Almost all of them include a bottle opener but default, including the CAT and other ATV/construction equipment style ones. Not worth the effort to support that type of market.
Our newer car senses when I put my phone on the passenger seat, then yells at me incessantly.
Car is like “maybe it’s a baby idk”
“Baby has a phone in its pocket of this I am sure”
Sounds like, when it comes to safety, your car really phoned it in
You could conversely say it’s really dialed
I mean dont worry, the market for this by definition shrinks.
Complete with bottle opener! Now you can drive drunk without that annoying chime to remind you to put your seatbelt on!
That was the first thing I noticed. It looks like a bad design for plausible deniability; i feel like you’d have to eject it to open your beer while driving.
Surprised it doesn’t come wrapped in Paracord, with a knife and a window breaker. Full tactical seatbelt avoidance.
If you don’t wear your seatbelt you become the window breaker.
Surprised it doesn’t come wrapped in Paracord, with a knife and a window breaker
Putting anything actually useful on it is antithetical to its purpose
Excellent product idea, inspires me for some others:
Punisher airbag-knife, specially designed to deflate those pesky government-mandated airbags. Did you know airbags kill people sometimes? Protect yourself by getting rid of them!
Punisher-themed electric bathtub hot dog grill, because it’s my God given right to enjoy an American classic whenever and wherever I feel like it.
Punisher-themed fire alarm sound insulating boxes. Pairs great with the electric bathtub hot dog grill
Did you know airbags kill people sometimes?
Did you know unbuckled seatbelts are supposed to disable or reduce the action of airbags? Because if you crash hard enough to trigger the airbags, the lack of a seatbelt may make impact with the airbag WORSE than impact with the steering wheel. This is quite the killer device.
I haven’t checked the validity of your statement, but I’d guess this is because airbags are calibrated to go off with the assumption that the occupant is wearing a seatbelt. Airbags should only activate if a collision is hard enough that a person wearing a seatbelt is likely to impact the inside of the car. Without a seatbelt you will not only injure yourself bouncing around the car on a much lower collision speed, but also likely not be in a position the airbag expects you to be when it activates.
This is not my field, so this information comes from articles I’ve read over the years: when they first introduced this functionality, it was explained plainly as: your kinetic energy + the kinetic energy of the expanding airbag > your kinetic energy + negative energy absorbed by the deflating airbag.
Nowadays I gather that things are more complicated, but still, the status of your seatbelt is part of the data your car uses to choose a protection strategy for you. Fooling it with devices like this goes against your own interest twice.
Seatbelt fatalities are like 2%. Ejection fatalities are 83%. The odds are far more favorable to just wear the damn things.
These are the same people that didn’t give vaccines to their kids.
but muh freedumb snek
Tread on me daddy
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It must be a punisher logo. Of course.
Sometimes I feel like I should get in on the grift. I couldn’t bring myself to sell an anti-safety device in good conscience, but there’s bound to be a ton of pointless shit I can stick a skull on and sell this crowd.
Unfortunately the punisher logo looks kinda cool. But when I see it everywgere I have the feeling I’m dealing with a right wing lunatic.
See it depends on the target audience. Any antisafety device that targets cops is a safety device for the general public; every cop that exits through the front of the car is dozens of minorities not harassed or fed into the prison-industrial complex.
That’s why China should make 200,000 watt electric bikes, no ABS, no TC except on takeoff, lithium battery and center of gravity located just below the rider’s balls, and offer a 95% active duty US and IDF servicemen discount. It comes in 3 colors, olive drab flag, gun metal and grey flag, and flag.
President Xi, I know you’re reading this, I have other great ideas too.
I thought about selling overpriced tee shirts with obvious trolly text. Like the typical skull and fire, maybe a motorcycle, reading something like “the wearer of this shirt is loyal beyond all reason, they stick with a decision no matter how bad!”
I feel like some faux Latin would go down well.
ego sum culus/i suffragium sicut culus
Semper culus
That kind of thing
I can barely imagine the level of pathetic you have to be to actually use one of these. Holy fucking shit
favourite of ICE officers
Now all we gotta do is start planting land mines for em
All I can say is let them die. If they are dumb enough to use something stupid like this, they deserve to not survive a crash.
If you don’t use a seatbelt, a crash can turn your body into a projectile and kill someone else, so it’s not just “let the dumbasses die” scenario.
Or so I heard on the internet. Sounds like it’s probably a thing, though no idea how common it is.
I think this is mostly a danger to the people within your vehicle
Probably not common at all or we’d hear about it more, guessing
I’d like to see any real world statistic where that’s more of a problem that it seems like. Not saying it doesn’t happen, probably does. Just not as big of a thing as you may be thinking
How many people should we allow to die by the stupidity of others before something is done about it? What’s the negotiable cost of human life for self serving idiocy?
I’m not saying we should let others die (specifically from a person not wearing a seatbelt being ejected and killing someone else from the specific action of being thrown from the car landing on another), I’m just asking to see evidence to tell if it’s a real problem like you say it is.
I tried searching for any stats of this thing happening and I can’t find anything in the US specifically involving a person that is hurled from a vehicle killing a bystander.
The likely hood of this scenario is so low it could be literally non existent. So low that it could even be something stupid like someone’s seatbelt even breaks during a crash causing the same event (thinking randomly with no proof whatsoever).
Again im not saying anyone’s wrong or condemning bystanders to death but it sounds like something that really doesn’t happen like everyone responding to my top comment is making it out to be.
The problem is when they crash they are throw from the seat and no longer in control of a 2ton missle. Though, thats implying they were ever in control to begin with.
During alot of accidents they aren’t in control anyway…
