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Bedazzled steering wheels are like hunting with Dick Cheney, there's always a chance you are going to get a face full of bird shot.
Surely airbags are constructed in a way that doesn’t include slamming the hard plastic into your face?
I’ll retract that question mark. Designing it that way would just be too dumb.
Most are designed for the cover to move to the side when deployed but some are designed to split in some way that could cause the rhinestones to come free.
I’ve seen the occasional post where the front plate burned/branded people’s hands during deployment if they were holding the steering wheel.
https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/p9fqr9/honda_logo_burned_into_my_hand_from_steering/
Also an article about people getting injured from the bezazzling!
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/steering-wheel-cover-rhinestones-nhtsa/
An airbag is just a carefuly sized explosion instead of a kevlar pillow case, in a crash the airbag is deployed in a fraction of a second, lots of engineering goes into making them safe. However, the rind sones aren't an intended part of the system and can be separated from the wheel and "knocked" out of the way at high speeds, much like ball barberings in a claymore.