I have heard that if you tense or brace your body before a car accident you are more likely to be injured. Hence why drunk drivers often walk away unharmed because they just sort of flop around instead. So why is it that we are supposed to brace for impact?
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The goal of a car crash is to get your body to slow down at the same speed as the dashboard. So if there were no airbags to consider, you would be the safest being plastered to the dash at the time of (front) impact. Airbags extend the dash into you to get you to slow down at the same speed.
Airplanes have no airbags, so the best position for you to be in is full contact with the thing that’s going to slow you down. That’s your seatbelt and the chair in front of you.
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