Wouldn’t it be easier just to turn your head to one side and play away? 
(at a stop light, not while moving)
Tom
Then you won’t see the light turn green and instead of the airbag, the people behind you will shove the whistle down your throat.
Hi, Chrisoff. I don’t know what it’s like in Scotland, but here on the East Coast of the US, people often spend at least a half-hour each way commuting to work, so it feels good to be able to do something fun or productive at the stoplights. Some of the stoplights take a couple of minutes to cycle, so you can play a couple of tunes!
My wife knits at stoplights. She keeps a project in the car, finishing one every couple of months. And all of that is stoplight time!
I asked Gutifur, the person who posted the YouTube movie, about the video. Here’s what he wrote back.
So, a txistu is a type of tabor pipe, which makes playing it while driving possible.
If you really liked living dangerously, you could even beat the rhythm with your foot on the gas pedal, or with your free hand on the steering wheel!
I understand, but half an hour isn’t that long a drive. Listen to the radio or something. It just seems to me that if you’re playing an instrument, knitting, reading or whatever then you’re not paying attention to what traffic around you is doing. Even if you’re stopped at lights.
It just seems unsafe to me.
But anyway, I don’t want to criticise people here too much. At least you’re not doing it while the car is moving, unlike the guy in the video!
I think it’s Spanish-Utf8
No don’t get spooked by all this crazy talk, just buy a car without air-bags!
Or have your air bags disabled. Even better… take a cab or hire a chauffer. 
i refuse to fear my whistle at stoplights. the playing will continue.
Here’s an addition by Gutifr. Yep, it gets crazier.
At a stop light, today, I defiantly played a tune TO my airbag. Right TO it! Egging it on. DARING it to deploy. Whuddaya GOT, Mr High Tech??!!
Nothin’…
Then, in the rear-view mirror, I saw a car approaching my sensitive rear bumper, and quickly, er, put the whistle down. My mother did not raise a fool…
Is it true that in Britain it’s illegal to hold a drink while you’re driving and there are no cupholders in cars? (Or maybe that’s only true of the front seat?)
There are some cupholders but they’re not that common. I dunno about illegal but if you were driving with one hand on the wheel and holding a drink in the other I imagine the police would pull you over and have a word. If you’re using a cupholder and it’s a closed container (a bottle of water with a sports top for example) and you’re only holding it occasionally to sip then I don’t think that’s a problem.
It’s illegal to use a mobile phone while driving. But I’m not sure about anything else.
Wow, that’s the best part!
Thanks for the language help, folks.
Here in “greater Los Angeles” people often commute two or more hours each way to work every day. I’ve seen some amazing things- like the guy who had a newspaper propped up on the steering wheel, coffee in one hand, and an electric razor in the other, calmly giving himself a shave and reading the paper while hurtling at 70 mph down the freeway. Or the women doing their makeup (that’s what the rearview mirror is REALLY for) while chatting on their mobile phone/cell phone.
The mobile phone use is really really getting annoying. Every day I have people who swerve into my lane or suddenly dart in front of me without signalling and in every case they’re chatting on the phone.
But I am guilty of playing whistle (low D whistle no less!) not only at traffic stops but also on the LA freeways.
I really hope the guy in that video is driving an automatic…
…or, if not, he’s not planning on altering his speed sugnificantly any time soon…
Hmm, since when did most Americans care about doing anything safe… As many car accidents, shootings, murders, people dieing from cigarettes, alcohol, drugs, boating accidents, pretty much you name it happens, doesn’t seem like the majority of at least America is safe.
But I too, would play my tin whistle in the car while at a stop light, and would get some funky looks from curious on lookers wondering what the hell I was doing? However, reading this, I too, again… Did not think about “what if”… What if the airbag went off while holding my whistle. Not a Good idea.
-Eric
When does an air bag go off? Is it only for front-end collisions? If so, it doesn’t seem too risky to play the whistle at stop lights.
Unless you get rearended and pushed into the car in front of you. there are also side-impact airbags in newer models. You never know when an accident will happen, or where it will come from. Unless you’re in your parking space, you’ve always got a decent chance of being involved in a collision.
That’s a good point!