How about a smoke alarm subscription? Or even better, handbrake subscription!
this post was submitted on 18 Jan 2024
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Of course it's made by KLIM. Someone is probably over on ADVrider right now vehemently defending this vest and it's whale foreskin leather.
Wait so I am pretty sure that’s not allowed by safety regs? They could get sued pretty badly for this unless I am mistaken.
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I stumbled across this article when I saw this post. Not great, but not quite as bad as this post would lead us to believe. 👍🏻 (Also, subscription based services suck)
https://jalopnik.com/this-dystopian-biker-airbag-crash-vest-only-saves-your-1846823791
Mate of mine said it was controversial but the subscription is to opt into their telemetry feedback system and improve the algorithm via firmware updates. When they go off when they shouldn't you're gonna have a bad time. He did not mention the remote bricking part, yikes.
I've known about this for a while and it's just been mundane to me. It never struck me how stupid it is until now.
Just buy the bungee corded one with the pull string that they make, that's probably better anyways.
Klim could save a lot of bad pr by just blowing the airbag anyway and sending a bill for the remaining value of the vest after the fact.
But then you're just financing a vest and that's not a fancy buzzword that makes the c-suite cream their pants.
I'm not even outraged by this stuff any more. If you're ok with subscription models it's your own fault.
It is outrageous because if a sufficient number of people accept this bullshit, it becomes a viable and profitable business model and every provider moves into it. Basically people like me who run away from subscriptions like the devil end up without a choice.
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I use a 350€ manual airbag vest that was tested quite well
If I ever get one of these I'm gonna try hack them to no longer need that stupid subscription
Might be tricky because airbags are single-use. How do you know that your hack worked? If you test it to confirm you lost the air bag, so you'd have to buy at least two, make sure you did the exact same modification on the second one after confirming it worked on the first, and still be unsure if it's actually going to go off when it matters.
Just don't buy it.
airbags are single-use. [...] If you test it to confirm you lost the air bag
Please try to avoid presenting your hypothesis as fact. If your third sentence was phrased as a question it'd be fine. Currently it's misinformation.
Of course it can be tested without destroying it. The actual air bag component could be disconnected from the rest of the device and the connection point monitored for the appropriate voltage/current required for activation.
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