Showing Airbag Location Fields from vPIC Without Inventing Safety Grades
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NHTSA vPIC often returns airbag-location style fields on DecodeVinValues payloads: catalog tokens for front, side, curtain, knee, and similar locations when the pattern includes them. That is useful on a free VIN decode card. The trap is turning those strings into a safety grade -- "5-star equivalent," "fully loaded airbags," "safer than average for this class" -- that location fields never asserted. This post is about honest display: show airbag location fields when vPIC provides them, refuse