BMW Is Recalling Every American i3 Because Someone Might Get Hurt If They Don't Wear A Seat Belt
BMW is recalling every i3 it has ever sold in the USA, and the reason why is astonishing.
It comes on the grounds that government testing has discovered that a female of a specific height and weight sitting in the passenger seat might be at “marginally” higher risk of neck injury when, err, not wearing a seat belt.
Surely you’re also at significantly greater risk of having your organs turned to soup when you bounce around the interior of the car like it’s a human pinball machine, so a tiny bit of sans restraint neck trauma is neither here nor there.
Sadly, that’s not how the authorities see it. This is the famously humourless National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), the same organisation that wants electric cars in the US to make noises below 19mph in case people are too stupid to look before crossing the road. The NHTSA is our absolute favourite government agency. Wait, no, the opposite of that.
The madness in this case is over the i3 failing a ‘front rigid barrier’ crash, where a female in the front passenger seat who is five feet tall and weighs 50kg (110lb) is judged to be at fractionally higher risk of neck injury – again, when she’s not wearing a seat belt.
There should be a clause in the law saying that if you don’t wear your seat belt you’re not allowed to complain if you get injured, but instead BMW has issued a voluntary recall, possibly under pain of NHTSA enforcement action, for more than 30,500 cars.
In a statement BMW said:
“While BMW’s compliance testing showed results well below the required limits, more recent testing has shown inconsistent results.
“Consequently, BMW has issued a recall and is working with the agency to understand the differences in the test results. A remedy is forthcoming.”
It’s not often we really feel for a car company, but in this case…
Source: Autoblog
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She’s at higher risk of dying from anorexia rather than higher chance of neck injury.
😂😂😂
Boi shes 5ft tall thats like normal weight for that size
Car Throttle: I would never buy an electric car because theres no sound!!!
Also Car Throttle: It would be so stupid if electric cars had to make sound!!!
Wrong sound! The only thing worse than a silent electric car is one that goes BEEEP BEEEP BEEEP BEEEP when you’re trying to go about your business…
I would say that’s smart, but it really is stupid. If anything, just make that a reason why to wear seatbelts.
R.I.P natural selection, it was fun while it lasted
This guy approves 😂😂
I never agreed more
It’s just plain stupidity
If i move my hand to shift gears and sneeze very heavily at just the right moment there is a slight possibility my finger might get into the sigarette lighter and get stuck resulting in a minor burn. I demand my car to be recalled and have a refund.
Better recall every car ever made since the 1970s, because you not wearing a seatbelt puts your life at risk in these cars too.
….or maybe their seatbelts cant handle fat ‘muricans.
America isn’t even the most obese country. Seriously, why do people feel the need to do this?
The person at risk here only weighs 50kg…
One idiot here doesn’t know how to read properly…
wtf did i just read
If you die because you didn’t wear a seatbelt, you probably deserved it
Not probably, you DO deserve it.
What? How old are you? No one should deserve to die for not wearing a seat belt, people that do it are harming only themselves theres no deserving they are not doing others bad. You can say they are not in the right to complain because they’re assuming the risk. Deserving to die is just a whole another level.