Eli5 What happens to the horn? Part of the steering wheel when an airbag goes off

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For context I just saw the post of the person who glued stones to the steering wheel edit; I mean the cover on top of the wheel not just the electronics

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Well the airbag is in a column that bursts outward when a chemical reaction is ignited in the crash (so that lady basically made her steering wheel into a claymore). The horn is an electrical wire and fuse connected to the fuse box and a separate device further down in the dash (usually)

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