Dainese Active Restraint Reader Feedback

Some of you people must be joking. Gov. this and Gov. that.... Gimme a break. This is the LAND OF THE FREE baby!! Bunch of whinning, unpatriotic lunitics!! You don't like the way the system works? MOVE!!! You'll be begging for a helmet in Sadams ranks. Of course, we'll be shelling your ass at that exact point in time. I agree that the Gov. should not have the right to tell you that you MUST wear this vest if it is produced. But your a real ASS if you can afford it and it proves to be a safer way ride and you don't do it. Know why they passed the helmet law? Because there are lots and lots of dumb asses every year that die without one. Yeah, it's your choice not to and die. But it was your choice to stand up and vote on it too. In my own humble oppinion, the helmet law was enacted to protect the stupid. Much like the laws enacted to protect children. Here in Texas you can get a permit to ride with out one. What you basically do is sign off that you're a lunitic that wants to die and leave your family behind to try to pick up the pieces and you're free to go right out and try it. But don't appose it for those of us that DO want to live. Get off your whinning asses and get in the game. IT'S NOT ALL A CONSPIRACY!! Sign me up for the thing as soon as it proves functional. I want to live. Before you go screaming newbie, I've been riding for over 15 years and don't see the problem with riding another 15. Safety is good. Seeing my wife and kids is good. I intend to keep on doing that. My God people, it's not a sin to improve upon technology and help us to live another day. The day the thing saves your life, you'll change your tune. My hat goes off to Dainese. You make it work, I'll stand in line to buy it. Who gives a **** about being cool. I ride because it's in the blood, not because it's cool.



Devil_Clown

It's NOT $500

Looks like a great idea. I would definitely consider buying one... HOWEVER, not that I want to insult your intelligence, but am I the only one who can read a couple of paragraph... everyone's been asking if it's 500... if you can read, it says "

Current estimates are a $500 increase in the price of an airbag equipped jacket and some three pounds of added weight. "

you know what that means right?

Let me repeat it ** $500 INCREASE **

i.e. if an airbag-equipped jacket is $500 (which I doubt), then this one would be $1000. Now you get a calculator if you don't believe me

$1000 makes me think about it a little bit before I jump out and buy it. If it's more, forget it.

This seems to be a very good idea at first glance. However, after I watched the mpeg in the article I’m not so sure. I was a witness to a pretty bad wreck involving a friend of mine several years ago. He got hit head on by a pickup truck with a combined impact speed of around 35 mph. (Much the same as one would have if T-boning a car that just turned left in front of you. You know, the “I didn’t even see that motorcycle” syndrome.) In any event, his injuries were consistent with the majority of frontal collisions. Head trauma, broken clavicle, teeth knocked out/shattered and inhaled into his lungs, broken ribs, knee and shin. The most serious injury was obviously the head trauma and his teeth being inhaled. The teeth thing may (or may not) have been prevented/lessened by the use of newer full-face helmets (his was a top of the line Bell at the time). The ribs and clavicle would almost certainly have been prevented or lessened by the use of this device (in itself possibly worth buying it). However, the injury that this thing is supposed to prevent wouldn’t have been lessened at all and possibly may have been exaggerated! As my friend’s body made initial contact with the front of the truck, his head was whipped around the pivot of his neck and slammed into the hood of the truck, which is very typical of a body first/head first impact. This thing looks like it would cause the exact same thing to happen but to a greater extent because of the added leverage caused by the bag hitting an object before the body with no forward restraint to the head and neck! (Watch the first mpeg closely! The dummies head and neck are greatly accelerated once the bag hits then are slammed into the crash object! Ouch!) The only thing that saves you in an auto crash when the air bag deploys is its ability to lessen the g-forces with which your head and neck are accelerated and then decelerated. That only works if it inflates in FRONT of your face! Maybe Dainese can work out the bugs here. But for my money, unless they fix the above issue I’ll just keep wearing my leathers/body armor and ride like the cell phone yapping, kid spanking, granny toting mini-vans and SUV’s are out to kill me. If they get the frontal impact thing figured out then I’ll be the first in line to buy one.