Tegger wrote:
> blythe b <mbowman155@gmail.com> wrote in news:8e13a836-cfb6-4fb4-a6c0-
> 24e9291e3b81@l2g2000yqd.googlegroups.com:
>
>> http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/07/31/hon...all/index.html
>
>
> The USA remains the only country in the world that has a wacky legal
> requirement that bombs be installed in car's interior, aimed directly at
> the occupants. Then they require that big yellow labels be stuck
> everywhere, warning you that the bombs will kill your kids so make sure you
> put the little dears where the bombs can't reach them. Sheesh.
>
> For those of you in Canada, bomb disablement is quite legal, and is
> available at any garage for about $40 (don't know if that's per bomb or an
> all-in price).
>
> Do you know what detonates the bombs? Sodium azide, the same stuff they use
> to light off high-explosives. Auto dealership technicians have fun
> detonating surplus airbags in the parking lot. Sometimes they try to see
> how high the bags will go when ignited, which can be up to forty feet. Fun,
> wow!
>
>

And yet only Honda seems to have decided to make them *shrapnel*
bombs...