Airbags

Kenny Lin ENG101 11/20/2015 Me : Should the minimum age to obtain a driver license in the US be increased to 21? W : I think raising the age to 21 is going to cause problems to many families. Teens these days have a lot of places to go. I am the only one that know how to drive in my house and I feel that it is hard for me. I always have to drive my two son to school activities and other stuff. Me : People aren 't responsible enough until they get older and have more experiences in their life. After

Regulatory Oversight and Recall Congress began to hold high-profile hearings on automobile safety in 1965. In 1966, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed both the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act and the Highway Safety Act into law. The two bills gave the federal government authority to set and enforce safety standards for vehicles and roads. The NTMVSA was the first legislation mandating federal safety standards for motor vehicles. Although the safety standards in the NTMVSA were watered

What about seat belts? Why don’t school buses have them? The short answer is that small school buses do in fact require seat belts; large school buses, with a few exceptions do not. Seat belts are not required on the larger school buses because both the U.S. Department of Transportation and Transport Canada, have determined that compartmentalization is the preferred occupant protection system. To explain these differences in a greater detail we begin as follows; a small bus is categorized

There are many people who do not understand the importance of seat belts for safety. They do not wear their seat belts even though they know the mortality statistics. Most of them think that seat belts do not help when an accident occurs. We have all made the excuse that the seat belt is uncomfortable. Driving is a dangerous duty that should always be practiced with more caution and care. Some people think that not wearing a seatbelt is rebellious. Other people think that they will never get into

The Seatbelt That Saved My Life     Have you ever had a near-death experience? I have. It was a Sunday. May 17th, 2015; I was twelve years old at the time. My dad, sisters, our two dogs, and I were visiting my dad’s (at the time) girlfriend, Kerri, in Devil’s Lake and were just about to head back to our small house in Minot. It was one of those weird, inbetween days of spring where the ice had started melting and turning the ground into mud, but not all the way. There were still random patches of

1.1 GENERAL INFORMATION At this time whole automobile industry have been trying to produce lighter vehicles, even if it leads to a little decrease in fuel consumption. On the other hand, while accounting ameliorates the product, the durability of the product has to be preserved. In order to measure these values, some tests have been made which are crash tests. Crash tests have been using to measure the crashworthiness of the car. Crash tests have a various operation at hand, for example; frontal

A limb from a whorl-branched pine, perhaps five feet long, lay crossways on the front bumper. At least the airbags didn’t deploy. She trudged forward, hoping to save the paint by moving it now. Although the harsh air stung her face and hindered her movements, she was grateful to put her weight training to use, heaving, and tugging on the branch. Another heave

faulty airbags. Takata was unable to deliver the message to U.S. regulators in a timely manner and now face the consequences. It looks as if Takata has used the concept of risk vs. reward. Takata is being fined over their faulty airbags and it seems that corporate had planned this out from the beginning. Takata had more than one opportunity to report their airbags as defective, but rather took a risk and are now facing fines. Takara could have made a lot of money off the defective airbags and now

with air are so necessary to have in a car? Airbags are devices that are installed in most cars usually on the front and the sides. Airbags fill with air once a collision is sensed in the car and they slowly release air through small holes, this is intending to slow your acceleration down but not rapidly. Airbags work because they slow down your impulse from a fast and dangerous negative acceleration to a slow and safe negative acceleration. Airbags slow down a person's speed as a car is rapidly

The chemistry of Airbags The airbags purpose is to move out quickly enough for a head-on collision, to prevent any harm to the individuals in the vehicle during a car accident. The airbag system consists of a crash sensor(accelerometer),that detects when a car decelerates very quickly, which then causes the ball(crash sensor) to move forward and turn on the electrical circuit which causes the process of inflation to occur. The gas generator in the airbag contains a mixture of NaN3, KNO3, and SiO2