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Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/archives/the-secret-button-you-didn-t-want-a-french-taxi-driver-to-press-1.5330972
TIL that in 1987, several French taxi cabs were installed with a device that would shock unruly passengers in the backseat. The then new product was called “the blazing seat,” and it was being marketed as a way of making taxi drivers’ jobs safer.
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Yes. Electrocute the person who has become volatile enough that they are trying to rob or kill you, there is definitely no way that could go wrong. /s
I mean just as a start this probably wouldnt be the best defense against a passenger that was volatile due to not being sound of mind at the time.
flight attendants need this bad rn.