Airbag

   

 The   present    topic   is    about  safety   airbags  in  cars. No safety    device   has  consumed  more  attention  and  resources  than  the  airbag. It  is  known  with  high  confidencee  that  when  a crash  ours , the  presence  of  airbag  reduces    fatality  risk  to  drivers. Airbags    are   subject   of   serious    government   and  industry   research . My  seminar  takes  you  to  the  history,  devolopement and  working   aspects   of    airbag.

  

For years, the trusty seat belt provided the sole form of passive restraint in our cars.  There were debated about their safety, especially relating to children. But over time, mush of the country adopted mandatory seat-belt laws.  Statistics have shown that the use of seat belts has saved thousands of lives that might have been lost in collisions.

Air Bags have been under development for many years. The attraction of a soft pillow to land against in a crash must be very strong – the first patent on an inflatable crash-landing device for airplanes was filed during World War II.  In the 1980’s the first commercial air bags appeared in automobiles. Since 1988, all new cars have been required to have air bags on both driver and passenger sides (Light Trucks came under the rule in 1999).  To date, Statistics show that air bags reduce the risk of dying in a direct frontal crash by 30 percent.  Newer than steering Wheel mounted or Dashboard-mounted bags, but not so widely used, are seat-mounted and door mounted side air-bags.  Some experts say that within the nest few years, our cars will go from having dual air bags top having six or even eight air bags.  Having evoked some of the controversy that surrounded seat-belt use in its early years, air bags are the subject of serious government and industry research and tests.

The air bags are of greater importance in today’s vehicles since safety of human life is of prior importance.  Since the count of automobiles is increasing tremendously on our roads, the probability of accidents is also more.  So far a safe riding and for saving the precious life the safety bags must be implemented.  Today it is the prevail age of the high class people who own high priced cars.  Lets hope every automobile manufacturers implement the same since safety for life is inevitable.

FUTURE OF AIR BAGS

Smart Systems

The smart airbag of the future is not just the airbag, but also a redesign of the components in the current airbag system.  Features include:

Weight Sensors

This is a new sensor for the passenger seat to classify the weight and to determine what type of occupant is in the seat, i.e. adult or child.

Infrared Occupant detection

This system will use infrared beams (just like in your TV remote control) to detect the distance the passenger is from the airbag and adapt the force of deployment accordingly.