The Impact Of Air Bags On A Car Safety Device

The headrest was invented by Benjamin Katz in 1921. He created the headrest to prevent movement of a person's head during collisions. It was found that the headrest eliminated whiplash or several injuries to the cervical vertebrae during a car crash. Katz also created the headrest as an emergency device to break a window and get out of the car in case of an accident where you cannot get out of the doors. This invention soon reached worldwide popularity due to the comfort and safety they provided to automobile users. After January 1st, 1969, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) mandated the use of headrests in all new cars sold. Since Katz's invention, the headrest has gone through many changes, including safety, comfort,

In the lab of “The Falling Eggs and Automotive Lab”, we had to design a protective device able to hold the egg and allowing it survive from the impact of hitting the ground from the top of the staircase. We did this lab to investigate newton’s Laws and prove how they work. In the lab, we have to observe the forces that act on the egg and evaluate the way they work. We do this lab with an egg to relate to a real life collision with a car. The egg is essentially the person and the device that the egg is in is the Airbag. We use our knowledge about airbags and apply that to this lab in order to make the egg survive and not crack.

At the age of 22, Westinghouse invented a air braking system. He patented the braking system on October 28, 1873. This air braking system would lock the brakes if something went

Many people, right away, are probably thinking – “What is the big advantage of an under inflated football?” A deflated football gives the team using it a huge advantage. A physics professor, Mike Eads, from Northern Illinois University explain in terms of physics why a deflated football is an advantage,

This invention is the ambulance. The invention of the ambulance began in 1859 when prototypes emerged in mass numbers. With ambulances, patients were now able to be transferred to other medical facilities more rapidly and efficiently. A man named Jonathan Letterman was appointed medical director of the Army of Potomac in 1862 and he immediately began to rework the structuring of the Ambulance Corps. He was able to combine the use of ambulances and he began to train enlisted men to be the Ambulance Core.

Every day, thousands of individuals fall victim to motor vehicle accidents and obtain serious injuries. But in regards to innovations such as seat belts and airbags, this number has decreased. Safety innovations have changed throughout history. In the 1930’s, individuals were required to wear safety glasses in their vehicles, in the late 1950’s, occupants were allowed to choose whether they wanted headrests on the front seats, which we know understand to be a crucial part of a car as it prevents whiplash. More recently there have been new innovations such as tire pressure monitors and traction control which further contributes to reducing the number of roadside accidents. However, it is clear that there is still a large area for improvement.

The first company to come out with a commercially used airbag was General Motors, in 1974. In 1998, airbags finally became a required safety measure on all new commercial cars. All airbags can be deployed quickly, but the fastest one is directly inside the drivers wheel. From the time the airbag senses a crash it only takes about 30 milliseconds for it to deploy and it takes around 200 milliseconds to blink your eye. If you blink you might just miss it, no pun intended. These speedy pillows are fast because of the jet fuel the inflates them. Without the fuel the bag wouldn’t be able to inflate fast enough to save the head of the driver, which is being pulled forward by momentum like a

Kevlar was invented by a chemist by the name of Stephanie Kwolek. She invented kevlar while trying to make a substance stronger and lightweight fibers to replace steel in tires to improve fuel economy. After the creation, mass producing the material was hard, but it eventually happened in 1971. Since the mass production of this magical material, it is now in many different kinds of protective gear.

This law is about the safety for children under the age of six. It is for the Florida area. It will give children more safety and a safer car ride. Your travel to your destination will get you there safer and quicker. If you want to go to the beach and another car is on your side on the rode and a child is in your back seat the child could get seriously hurt. Kids are the next generation and we need to make the right decisions so that the make the right choices for their kids.

To start, Newton’s first law is about motion and inertia. According to our textbook, when a car crashes, the momentum will be 0. The shorter the time, the greater the force will be. With airbags, the momentum is slowed down in a shorter amount of time, which leads to a smaller force (Video). The video showed us that when you throw an egg at a wall, it will break instantly, but if you threw an egg at a curtain,

Namely, the seat belt works in endless ways to shield drivers and passengers from potential danger on the road. For example, in her article concerning seat belts, Beth Orenstein mentions that in the case of a collision or accident, the seat belt performs an effective job by preventing drivers and passengers from being ejected out of the car, spreading the force out from the crash to avert any acute injuries, and helping the body slow down while the collision impact continues to affect the car (Orenstein 1). Furthermore, Tom Harris reinforces Orenstein’s facts in his own article and states that seat belts keep drivers inside their cars by working against inertia, which is “an object’s tendency to keep moving” (Harris 2). Thus, when a moving car comes to an abrupt halt, the human body is restrained by the shoulder and lap belts so as not to be hurdled out the window. Unmistakably, seat belts save thousands of lives each year and to make amplified use of this revolutionary technology can save thousands more. Given this, it is evident that the seat belt is not a mere accessory that accompanies any car; without it, fatal injuries are exceedingly probable and the risk of death is also drastically

A research team at the Norwegian University of Science designs steel, aluminium, steel, plastic and vehicle components that can absorb the shock of a high impact collision. The team aims to protect passengers in high energy crashes, and their projects are funded by the research Council of Norway. Members of the team are very knowledgeable of aluminum, and their expertise makes them perfect, and the automobile industry depends on them to provide vehicle safety information.

In early May 2014 , federal safety regulators said three independent investigations had come to the same conclusion about the lethal air bags: Long-term exposure to changes in temperature an moisture can make ammonium nitrate propellant dangerously powerful. “The science now clearly shows that these inflators can become unsafe over time, and faster when exposed to high humidity and high temperature fluctuations,”. The agency also expanded the recall to more than 60 million air bags—every one that doesn’t have the drying agent. The bags must be replaced by 2019. Tanaka has until the end of 2019 to prove that even the air bags with the drying agent are safe. On June 1, a Senate report noted that four carmakers are still selling new models with

     For example, in football the reason for people not to get concussions every time the get knocked in the head is the cushioning inside the helmet. This same cushioning comes from aircraft passenger seats made by NASA.

It’s a dark rainy night. You and your family are coming home from a late night family party. As a car is coming through an intersection another car cut in front of it. The driver decides to hit the brakes so you can avoid the car, but as he presses the brakes, the car loses control on the slick wet road. He is not able to gain control and at that point he has endangered the lives of himself and many others on the road. This is just one example of the many types of things that occur in our streets everyday. All that would have been needed to avoid this situation would have been a traction control system in his car, which would have detected that the car was skidding and would have applied the brakes to