Air Bags

Part I of Essay
Imagine you are driving on the freeway, and you are bumped from behind by another driver. It’s nothing serious, but the bump triggered your airbags to go off. Startled by the airbags inflating for no real reason, you wait for them to deflate so you can move to the shoulde ....

Part II of Essay
.... detect decelerations indicative of a crash severity that exposes the occupants to a high risk of injury, they send an electronic device that monitors the operational readiness of the air bag system whenever the vehicle ignition is turned on. These are designed to inflate in moderate-to-severe frontal and near-frontal crashes. They inflate when the crash froces are about equivalent to striking a brick wall head on at 10-15 mph. are not designed to deploy in rollover crashes. The air bag inflates within about 1/20 of a second after imp ....