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Re: Air Bag information from SCCA

To: David Rowney <daver@uclink4.berkeley.edu>
Subject: Re: Air Bag information from SCCA
From: "John J. Stimson-III" <john@harlie.idsfa.net>
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 12:16:26 -0800
On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 11:51:28AM -0800, David Rowney wrote:
> I don't have access to the study in question, but according to some who 
> have seen the study, it was not done on production passenger vehicles with 
> airbags and did not test full-face vs. open face helmets. To me it seems 
> extremely unwise to base a major safety rule change on a _single_ study 
> that did not even include the types of vehicles we are concerned with.

There has not been a rule change.  The memo recommends that people not
use full face helmets in vehicles with air bags for now, and says that
there may be a rule change after further discussion/research.

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john@idsfa.net                                              John Stimson
http://www.idsfa.net/~john/                              HMC Physics '94






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