Nice job, Rock. Looks very efficient and well-crafted.
The quetion of what the airbag would do with any of our laptop solutions is a good one. I had to think about this pretty hard after I hit the deer in Colorado on May 30th. I took my 4Runner to a Toyota dealership in Lubbock a few days later to inspect the body damage and make sure I wasn't risking additional problems. The damage was mostly superficial, but it was close enough to vital systems that I wanted confirmation before logging another five thousand miles.
They waved away the fender and grill damage immediately but were very interested in my airbag and why it didn't deploy. They wondered if I might have damaged the sensor and if it could fire at some random moment. This was of interest to me too.
My first response was to ask them to turn off the airbag, but they were reluctant. They determined the sensor was fine, and the reason that it hadn't deployed was because it monitors the rate of deceleration, not any collision criteria. The deer busted up my front end pretty badly but didn't cause the extreme deceleration required for the sensor to fire.
While they were deciding this, I was thinking about the airbag and that Jotto Desk. I think that before I have another passenger ride in that seat, I will deactivate the airbag.
I'm curious if any chasers have had an accident where airbags have opened into equipment like this and what the result was.