Airbags are back in the news as GM is recalling thousands of vehicles with roof-mounted airbags that can rupture. This can send sharp metal fragments into the cabin, which increases the risk of an ...

Automotive airbags are key safety devices that aim to reduce injuries and mortality in the event of motor vehicle accidents. These rapidly-inflating cushions act to soften the blow of an impact, ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Takata Corp, the Japanese auto parts maker at the center of a global vehicle recall, ordered its technicians to destroy results of tests on some of its air bags after finding cracks ...

TRW Engineers position the side impact dummy (SID) and check instrumentation before performing a side airbag test. From the single driver-side airbag that was installed on all of the U.S. vehicles a ...

The question is which dummy has a more representative rear end? The auto manufacturers say they developed a dummy with softer buttock contours that "knows" when an air bag should be suppressed in a ...