Airbag

Toyota and Takata’s Airbag Controversy In recent events, Toyota has begun a recall of over thirty-four million cars of different makes and models. The recall initiated due to faulty airbags made by Japanese corporation known as Takata. The issue with these airbags lies within the inflator and the propellant devices, which cause them to improperly deploy and explode. The explosion shoots metal fragments into occupants and has already killed fourteen in the United States alone. Unfortunately, one of our group members has had the misfortune of owning a car with Takata’s dysfunctional airbag. In his experience, he contacted Toyota on the issue, in which their response was; “The parts to replace the inflator are not yet available.” When he asked…

Dangerous Airbags “Upon rapid deceleration of the vehicle, an airbag can be propelled against the passenger at speeds approaching 200 miles per hour.”(www.newlinlaw.com) When you get into an accident and the airbags go off, they mostly save lives, but sometimes they can cause injuries to the passengers in the car. Manufacturers can make the airbags dangerous for the occupants in the car. Accidents can cause rapid airbag inflation. Because of the rapid inflation of the airbag, it can cause many…

Case Study The Takata Airbag Recall Airbags are one of the most important safety equipment in almost all vehicles on the road today. All new cars sold in Australia today come with airbags as standard (NRMA, 2017). United States National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) estimates that airbags save the lives of at least 2500 people every year in the United States alone (Glassbrenner, 2002). People rely on airbags to save their lives if there is a crash, therefore it is crucial that…

wheel, more specifically the airbag. An airbag is like a really cool balloon, instead of someone blowing it up, or inflating it with a helium tank; an explosion takes care of that. The idea is that the explosion fills the balloon with nitrogen and a wave of concussion, but only for the moment of a crash then the airbag generally deflates. For the most part, airbags are a great safety feature. A nose broken by a balloon beats hitting the steering wheel face first at 30 miles per hour. I, by the…

whom were saying how they had seen many of the same type of accidents where the driver was not wearing their seatbelt: they said I was lucky to walk away from my accident with only a few bruises. According to the South Dakota Safety Council, in 2008 alone 15,907 vehicle crashes were reported in South Dakota. Of those 15,907 crashes 121 people were killed: 60 of those people were not wearing their seatbelts. That is almost one out of every two people! Seatbelts not only save lives, but they…

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however, passing a law to make the wearing of seat belts mandatory and punishable by law is a glaring infringement upon our civil liberties. In 1985 seat-belt laws began passing through State Legislature despite a long history of public resistance to such laws. The facts behind how this came to be are quite fascinating. Automakers were bitterly opposed to a law passed requiring them to install passive-restraints (airbags) in all new vehicles by 1990. Secretary of Transportation Elizabeth Doyle…

decreasing the force of secondary impacts with the internal strike hazards by making sure that the passengers are seated correctly for the highest effectiveness of the airbag (if equipped) and by preventing passengers being driven out from the vehicle in a crash or if the vehicle rolls over. By taking into account a situation whereby one is driving, both the speed of the driver and passengers is the same as the one that the car is travelling at. If it happens that the car suddenly stops or…

three tries, but in the end the window was no match for the maul. Me and my father were able to crawl out of the back window and onto the street where medical personnel were arriving. The EMT’s checked us out and suggested that we go to the hospital so we were transported to cmc-union, where my mother works. The EMT’s wheeled me into the ER on a stretcher as my mother comes running up to me crying asking me if I'm okay. I assured her that I was going to be fine and they took me to room 101.…

unprotected sex, eat junk food, not exercise, refuse medical treatment, all of which, statistically, have a very high chance of killing us. In other words, being a free adult entitles us to be responsible for our own actions, except when it comes to driving a car without a seat belt. Not only are seat belt laws a violation of our freedom, and an additional source of revenue for the government, at our expense, but is it actually safer to wear them than not? Consider that the use of seat belts…