Binoculars and driving.... (1 Viewer)

Troubador · Mar 18, 2018

Don't fancy the idea of being smacked on my spectacles by a plastic bag inflating at 200mph but I need to wear spectacles. And a 200mph slap on the nose doesn't sound pleasant even without spectacles and for that matter a 200mph tap on the chest without binos hanging there would seem to be a heart-threatening event unless they are designed to finish inflating before encountering your body or face.

Lee

fazalmajid · Mar 18, 2018

Airbag inflation plus seat-belt tensioning was enough to fracture my clavicle 5 years ago. I had managed to live out four decades without ever breaking a bone until then. I can't imagine how much damage binoculars would have done. That's why I keep them in the door compartment in my car, where they are still readily accessible.

Stanbo · Mar 18, 2018

And I thought that this thread was going to be about driving while looking through binoculars!

Stan

dries1 · Mar 18, 2018

If your air bag deploys on its own and you are traveling at high speed, the chances are that whether you have binoculars strapped around your neck or not will likely be irrelevant. I was working two weeks ago here in Southeast Pa. and was driving my truck up a densely wooded area, a two foot diameter tree fell across the road about 20 seconds after I passed by, when your time is up, it is up, so just go on and enjoy the view and stop worrying about air bag deployment. I have an old truck it does not have air bags, do I worry about it, no.

A.W.

A.W.

Troubador · Mar 18, 2018

dries1 said:
If your air bag deploys on its own and you are traveling at high speed, the chances are that whether you have binoculars strapped around your neck or not will likely be irrelevant. I was working two weeks ago here in Southeast Pa. and was driving my truck up a densely wooded area, a two foot diameter tree fell across the road about 20 seconds after I passed by, when your time is up, it is up, so just go on and enjoy the view and stop worrying about air bag deployment. I have an old truck it does not have air bags, do I worry about it, no.

A.W.

We don't drive on motorways with binos and never if we need to make speed but on quiet roads in Scotland where half a dozen sheep on the road are far more likely than a collision, we think its a reasonable risk.

Lee

dries1 · Mar 18, 2018

Yes Lee, seems like you are enjoying the view.

A.W.

wdc · Mar 18, 2018

paddy7 said:
I think they're designed for kids in the back seat; i solved that issue by taking the back seats out.....

That is a rather novel and uncertain methodology for birth control, but to each his own!

-Bill

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