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These cars came with a 1974-style Oldsmobile instrument panel and a unique steering wheel that contained the driver-side airbag. Two of these cars were crash tested after 20 years and the airbags deployed perfectly. [30] An early example of the airbag cars survives as of 2009. [31]
The passenger-side airbag was a "dual-stage" airbag, meaning that the impact sensors determined the force used to deploy the airbag based on the severity of the impact. Of the original fleet of Chevrolets, virtually all were eventually disposed of except one, which is currently fully restored.
Airbag deployment happens with the same speed and force every time. Airbag devices cannot gauge their degree of deployment to match varying forces of impact. It is an all-or-nothing deployment.
Ford marketed its system as SPACE (Side Protection and Cabin Enhancement) Architecture, incorporating at floor level a bolt-in hydroformed cross-car steel beam between the B-pillars directly below an identical reinforced cross-roof beam above the B-pillars [29] [30] to channel impact forces around rather than through the passenger cabin. [31]
In the NHTSA report, the luxury vehicles company said the driver's airbag inflator may explode during deployment because of a manufacturing defect. If an inflator explodes, sharp metal fragments ...
The 2021 Atlas has been recalled twice before for unrelated airbag problems, once in November 2021 for a water leak issue that could cause unwanted airbag deployment and once in March 2022 for a ...
The company only counted incidents resulting in head-on collisions in which the airbags did not deploy. It did not include, for example, an incident where after a car's ignition switch failed, the car "spun out, hydroplaned, hit an oncoming vehicle and rolled off the road, dropping 15 feet into a creek". [15]
Airbag deployment sensors typically do not trigger until contact with an obstruction, and it is crucial that front bumpers be the first parts of a vehicle to make contact in the event of a frontal collision, to leave sufficient time to inflate the protective cushions. [16]