| For many years the seat belt was relied upon | | | | occurred.The third part of the system is the |
| for safety in automobiles. Many people | | | | inflators. The bags inflation system ignites |
| debated whether seat belts were safe or not | | | | a solid propellant, which burns extremely |
| but over time many states made wearing seat | | | | quickly to create a large volume of gas to |
| belts mandatory. Statistics have proven that | | | | inflate the bag. This gas is harmless. The |
| seat belts have saved lives in accidents | | | | inflators react so swiftly that the air bag |
| everywhere. The safety belt is now mandatory, | | | | inflates literally within the blink of an |
| due to a primary or secondary law, in all | | | | eye.This air bag system was designed to help |
| states except New Hampshire. With most | | | | our lives. This safety tool has been found to |
| everyone now agreeing to the benefits of | | | | be a great benefit to many people throughout |
| using a seat belt, carmakers have stepped up | | | | the world by minimizing injuries and |
| their safety standards to use technology to | | | | fatalities during car crashes . Now just like |
| its advantage and developed air bags.In the | | | | everything air bags have pros and cons. There |
| 1980's the first air bag appeared in | | | | have been many incidents in which a person |
| automobiles. In 1998 all new cars were | | | | has been slightly injured or burned due to |
| required to have frontal air bags on both | | | | the impact of the bag, but their life was |
| driver and passenger sides. Lighter weight | | | | saved. Also it needs to be kept in mind that |
| trucks, such as pickups, vans and SUVs, were | | | | children under the age of 12 are not to be |
| required in 1999 to have frontal air bags | | | | seated in the front seat since an air bag |
| installed.Studies have proven that the risk | | | | impact to them could cause serious |
| of dying in an auto crash has been reduced by | | | | injure.Technology is continuing to grow and |
| nearly 30 percent since the addition of the | | | | experts are now working on air bags that will |
| air bag in vehicles. The National Highway | | | | be linked to sensors that can help tell the |
| Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has | | | | air bag what type of person is in the seat. |
| stated that air bags have reduced fatal | | | | The body mass will be calculated so that air |
| injuries by 11 percent for drivers and 13 | | | | bags can be developed to deal with the |
| percent for adult passengers.The purpose of | | | | different sizes of the occupants. These |
| an air bag is to help the occupants to either | | | | 'smart sensors' are the future of air |
| not sustain any injuries or keep the damage | | | | bags.Remember that air bags do not eliminate |
| to him or her to a minimum. During a moderate | | | | the need for seat belts being used. Car |
| to severe car accident, to the front of the | | | | occupants who chose not to buckle up can be |
| car, the frontal air bags are supposed to | | | | seriously injured or killed if they are too |
| inflate to prevent the occupants of the car | | | | close the air bag as it deploys. Air bags are |
| from striking into the interior of the | | | | supposed to be a supplemental safety device |
| vehicle. The air bags also help absorb | | | | not a replacement. The latest NHTSA studies |
| forward force that the body that usually | | | | show that vehicle occupants protected by both |
| incurs in that type of accident.There are | | | | seat belts and air bags are 50 percent less |
| three parts to an air bag that help it | | | | likely than unrestrained occupants to suffer |
| accomplish its goal of making people in cars | | | | serious, or even fatal, injuries in a car |
| safer. The air bag, the crash sensors and the | | | | crash.In my opinion we never know when it is |
| inflators make up the integral parts of the | | | | our time to go but with modern technology |
| air bag system in an automobile.First there | | | | this air bag system was created to help us be |
| is the bag itself. It is made of a thin, | | | | safer in our daily lives. It is very |
| nylon material. The frontal bag is then | | | | important you and your family should feel |
| placed in the steering wheel or dashboard. | | | | secure at all times in your vehicle despite |
| Newer vehicles may also have side panel air | | | | things that may happen on the roads |
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| bag system is the sensors. Vehicles with | | | | insurance marketplace gives an opportunity to |
| frontal air bags have a crash sensor located | | | | consumers and to insurance companies. We |
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| bag when to inflate. It should send the | | | | online.Consumers can receive quotes from many |
| signal when at least a moderate impact has | | | | insurance companies, in some states you are |
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| enough to cause the deployment of air bag. | | | | online. You don't have to drive your car to |
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| to the air bag when a serious crash has | | | | |