While most would assume airbag testing would only involve impacts, you also need to ensure that they won't deploy in situations where they aren't warranted. For instance, striking a curb, hitting 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 ...

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 ...

The roads and sidewalks in the world’s cities are shared by pedestrians, cars and bicycles, and more recently new micromobility means of transportation such as electric scooters/e-scooters. As the ...

In previous studies, the numerical modeling and analyzing methods onto industrial or vehicle airbags dynamics were revealed to have high accuracy regarding their actual dynamic properties, but there ...