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#AT THE FRONT INSTALL#
#AT THE FRONT DRIVERS#

#AT THE FRONT INSTALL#

Since the 1999 model year, the federal government has required automakers to install driver and passenger airbags for frontal impact protection in all cars, light trucks and vans.įront airbags are designed to inflate in moderate to severe frontal crashes to prevent a person's head and chest from contacting hard structures in the vehicle. Counterfeit airbags may fail to deploy or release metal shrapnel during deployment. In that case, they must be replaced at a repair shop that uses original equipment manufacturer (OEM) replacement parts to ensure that the new airbag is not counterfeit. If the crash is severe enough, the sensors signal inflators to fill the bags with gas in a fraction of a second.Īirbags don't typically require maintenance unless they deploy in a crash. The instant a crash begins, sensors start to measure impact severity. Inflatable safety belts are aimed at reducing rear-seat chest injuries.Īirbags are inflatable cushions built into a vehicle that protect occupants from hitting the vehicle interior or objects outside the vehicle (for example, other vehicles or trees) during a collision.

#AT THE FRONT DRIVERS#

Far-side airbags keep drivers and front-seat passengers from hitting each other in a crash.

Rear-window curtain airbags are designed to protect people in back seats in rear-end crashes.

Side airbags that protect the head reduce a car driver's risk of death in driver-side crashes by 37 percent and an SUV driver's risk by 52 percent ( McCartt & Kyrychenko, 2007).Įngineers keep finding new ways to use airbags.

Front airbags reduce driver fatalities in frontal crashes by 29 percent and fatalities of front-seat passengers age 13 and older by 32 percent ( Kahane, 2015).

Side airbags aren't specifically mandated, but nearly all manufacturers include them as standard equipment in order to meet federal side protection requirements.

Front airbags have been required in all new passenger vehicles since the 1999 model year.

They're normally hidden but inflate instantly when a crash begins.

Airbags provide crucial cushioning for people during a crash.

Airbags are one of the most important safety innovations of recent decades.