Air bag causes roll over

[jehda]

it would seem you can not go and do research it goes though 2001.
Hopefully after reading the black box we will have the answer.
And maybe with an open mind if it proves that air bags are more harmful than helpful, I might take this information, change things and maker sure you and your grandchildren are safe..By the way your not the only grandparent in this world I have 5.
At your age I guess your are just a lonely ole fellow who gets his thrills from being cranky. But like the other intelligent person said this is not helping at all and you are very low on ammunition.

 

[grc460]

racer 72

Oh, and is should have added, the accident I was in when the airbag was deployed, a drunk ran a red light and I t-boned him at 55 mph. I never lost control of the vehicle. The airbag never interfered with the operation of the brake pedal. racer 72 said!

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but who says that you can drive a car with the brake pedal only? that's why there is a steering wheel, and a shifter. your brakes will most likely not work when your wheels are on the air.

 

[stephenk]

"I did a little research on the mechanics of airbags and it seems they are triggered by sensors that sense an acceleration (ie a crash). Since the sensors are not "body part" specific, meaning they don't know what part of the car has been hit, merely that the car as suddenly accelerated, they set off the airbag."

Not true at all. sudden acceleration does not set off an airbag.

An impact to certain parts of the vehicle and/or sudden decelaration of the vehicle may set off the airbag.

 

[Dash8Driver]

"I did a little research on the mechanics of airbags and it seems they are triggered by sensors that sense an acceleration (ie a crash). Since the sensors are not "body part" specific, meaning they don't know what part of the car has been hit, merely that the car as suddenly accelerated, they set off the airbag."

Not true at all. sudden acceleration does not set off an airbag.

An impact to certain parts of the vehicle and/or sudden decelaration of the vehicle may set off the airbag.

Steve you need to go back to school and study up on physics. Acceleration is any change in velocity and or direction. Those with at least a 12th grade education know there is no such thing as deceleration since you cannont take away an acceleration. The law of conservation of energy prevents that, you can neither create nor destroy energy.

As to certain parts of the car being damaged setting of an airbag, that I don't know, but it would not make much sense since that part could not be damaged in a collision that would warrant an airbag activation, but I could wrong I don't know the exact system on every car with an airbag.

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[tabathadolley]

Regardless of the wording, the airbag is set off when a car decelerates very quickly, even if the car is only initially going 10 mph. The sensors detect this, and set off the airbag igniter. The time from this happening and the airbag deflating takes approx 1/25 of a second. Those are the facts. I can also attest to this as I have been in an accident where the airbag went off. It happened so fast, I didnt know it happened until I was looking down on a deflated airbag.

 

[teflon_jones]

There's something missing in this story. What was hit that caused the airbags to deploy? Simply decelerating will NOT cause airbags to deploy. Only an impact on the area of the vehicle with the airbag sensors will cause them to deploy.

As for them impairing somebody's vision, well, that really has absolutely no bearing on this. The airbags are there to save the vehicle occupant's body from impacting dangerous surfaces on the interior of the vehicle in case of a violent impact with another object. If the impair the vision or not really has nothing to do with it. I would argue that if an impact is violent enough to deploy them, there is very little (or no) chance that the driver of the vehicle would be able to do anything to help their situation and the airbags could only help them.