Not the same guy but I’ve used the same vaporgenie for something like 8 or 9 years now, been through a lot of abuse and still holds up well.

There’s a whole season of Dexter with basically this premise

Activating the hazards when hard breaking is also just common practice to do manually (at least in western Europe)

Same for Belgium

Violent closure, honed blade, bitchmade, predominant mask all go hard