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Tweet: Okay I thought this one straight up has to be hyperbole, there's no way they'd make an airbag that checks your subscription status or it doesn't go off, but it's fucking TRUE: "Without the subscription service from In&Motion, the airbag system is non-operational."

Quoted tweet: Reminder that Klim makes a motorcycle airbag vest that has a subscription service and if you don't pay and get in a wreck it just doesn't go off

Google results screenshot: Ai-1 Airbag Vest (Klim) - Choose from $12/month or $120/year subscription options, which include...

Original tweet dated 30th April 2021

  • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]
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    10 months ago

    Shit at that point it would probably be safer to just bypass it manually, dig in there for the can and connect the valve to some piano wire or something, hook the other end onto your bike so it gets pulled automatically like a grenade if you leave your seat. The tripwire that saves you instantly

    • oregoncom [he/him]
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      10 months ago

      that's already a thing. much cheaper and it uses standard air canisters.

      • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]
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        10 months ago

        Unironically love unknowingly inventing things that have already been invented, it's like a little test to see if brain still work good

        • oregoncom [he/him]
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          10 months ago

          meanwhole bazingas microdose lsd to make sure they only invent things that are shittier versions of what already exist lol.