{"id":5497,"date":"2024-02-08T16:31:12","date_gmt":"2024-02-08T14:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mype.co.za\/business\/?p=5497"},"modified":"2024-02-08T16:32:33","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T14:32:33","slug":"the-coolest-job-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mype.co.za\/business\/the-coolest-job-in-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"The Coolest Job in the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of their quality assurance regime Volkswagen tests the reaction time and effectiveness of their vehicle&#8217;s air bag installations in-house.<\/p>\n<p>The coolest job must be pushing the button to activate the air bag deployment &#8211; makes me think about the fact that many insurers will not repair a vehicle that has had air bags deployed as it is &#8216;too expensive&#8217;!<\/p>\n<p>So we slowed this video down to 2% of the original frame rate and the bag still pops up very quickly.<\/p>\n<p>Filmed in the Volkswagen Factory in Kariega, Nelson Mandela Bay.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Exploding Air Bag - You will Still See it if You Blink\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/b_DL9FLM82s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The people in the video are some of the assembled media (32 from out of town) that attended a Volkswagen Africa vehicle launch in Kariega on Tuesday, 6 February 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of their quality assurance regime Volkswagen tests the reaction time and effectiveness of their vehicle&#8217;s air bag installations in-house. The coolest job must be pushing the button to activate the air bag deployment &#8211; makes me think about the fact that many insurers will not repair a vehicle that has had air bags [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[540],"tags":[621],"class_list":["post-5497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-business-news","tag-volkswagen","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mype.co.za\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mype.co.za\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mype.co.za\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mype.co.za\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mype.co.za\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5497"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mype.co.za\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5500,"href":"https:\/\/mype.co.za\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5497\/revisions\/5500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mype.co.za\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mype.co.za\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mype.co.za\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}