airbag deployment

[JVB96203]

Hey did onstar come on?

[ps3stolenweedman]

had this happen to me last night just wanted to see what hit me,,, damn

[boomy818]

you know ppl can die while a airbag pops in their face?? the bag has nitrogen gas pellets so it has about 130 f. gas in the bag so it can burn your face 3 degree

[aftermathsample305]

that was kinda low... whatever happn to helping the face.. not the chest lol, maybe if a lil kid was riding shotgun i guess

[0100BB]

Really.  yeah this helps you when you crash but they probably cause more problems than they fix

[powerfultoa7]

170 decibles in a 1 second, enough to cause permanent hearing problems :S

[sherricruz1960]

It DOES hurt..got hit full blast in the face with the airbag when our Mustang convertible was totaled by a driver making an illegal left turn.

[wickedpuds]

yes, i was in an accident a few months ago, and i was wearing my seat belt, and the airbags deployed, and i now have severe neck pain 24/7. Doctors say the airbag saved me from having mostly back pain, but since the airbag went off, my back stayed in place while my neck jerked forward, also giving me severe whiplash.

[bignicky88]

the reason why these american ones are so intense is because car designers have to factor in the culture of not wearing seatbelts!

its called SRS (supplementary restraint system) because it's supposed to be used in conjunction with seatbelts. but because so many americans don't wear seatbelts, airbags have to be more violent and dashboards have to be softer and more padded.

simple solution, WEAR YOUR SEATBELTS

[MegaCrumbsnatcher]

@bignicky88 do you really believe that or do you work for these folks.

[bignicky88]

@MegaCrumbsnatcher i suppose you think driving unrestrained is a brilliant idea. you go ahead with that, see how it works out for you.

[Rawrzellers]

I don't think that airbag did a good job of inflating :/ head meets the dash board.

[viridae]

@Rawrzellers It did exactly what it was supposed to. Your eyes (and the video) just aren't fast enough to see it. People come out of crashes and say The airbag is out but I don't think it worked. It is supposed to deploy and deflate that quickly, it isnt closed, it has holes in it.

[annamarlene38]

I was in a car accident 3 months ago, a drunk driver hit me and a friend...now my jaw and teeth are all messed up, thanks for posting this video, it gives me a better understanding of what happened to me.

[hiphopboy29]

jezzz sounds like a gunshot going off

[rescuefirefighter812]

the answer about the dash, it is designed to blow off towards the windshield. Make damn sure your feet are not on the dash when it goes off. Air bag safety distances are 5-10-20, 5 for driver side, 10 for steering wheel, and 20 for the passenger, 5-10-20 is all in inches. safe point for hands on a steering wheel are 9 and 3. it is he new practice. If you are driving a hybrid car, airbags are all over, make sure you tell the fire fighter on scene how to shut off the vehicle. it is really helpful.

[derekmasuda]

yeah maybe just break your nose or give you black eyes... but hey you're alive, right?

[bestamerica]

after airbag is open,,,

will re folding and return on the dashboard again

[TehMG]

No, airbags are a one-time use item. After the explosive charge in the airbag has deployed the airbag, it can not re-deploy. Some airbags contain two explosive charges so it may deploy twice, again in the event of a secondary collision in an accident.

ALL deployed airbags MUST be replaced with new.

In minor crashes if the airbags do go off, the cost of replacement of the airbags is sometimes more than the cost to repair damages to the vehicle (speaking from experience). Airbags are expensive.

[bestamerica]

hi MG,

thank for explaining to me

[dickcheney6]

@bestamerica It wouldn't work if, heaven forbid, you had another crash. The reason is that a kind of chemical "burns" to create nitrogen gas very quickly, and that's what inflates the air bag. The "inflator module" would need replaced.

[bestamerica]

dickcheney6,

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okay thank explain,,,

but dont use a word  - YOU - on me,,,

use another person had another crash

[frisbyrb5]

so does the dash smash u in the face as it blows off

[nicyjones]

The dash is designed not to blow off. It has been cut on the back side to allow it to tear in a controlled manner when the airbag deploys. Now if you have a habit of holding something in your mouth, or drinking out of a coffee mug. That would probably do some damage. But it's not very likely that that would kill you.

[ChrisBennett18]

nice warm pillow waiting to great you with a big bang

[dpstarcom]

i was in my friends car when a another friend in front of s slammed on his brakes going 45 and we slammed into him hard and the airbag knocked me out

[TehMG]

I had airbags go off when I rear-ended another vehicle, was going probably around 15km/h at the time of impact, they still went off.

Had bruises on my wrists for weeks from the air bag.

The truck was considered a write-off by insurance, even though only the front bumper and grille were damaged, due to the cost of replacement of the airbags.

Oh and before you say "stop tailgating", I'll say this: A) company truck and B) bad brakes which were fine in normal braking, but failed at slamming on

[tcpnetworks]

Which means you are cuplible of driving a vehicle that was poorly maintained and have commited a felony offence.

The company that owns the vehicle is cuplible of not maintaining the vehicle to the required standards mandated for registration and for worker-safety laws.

Don't excuse it - you did something very wrong.

I won't let work vehicles out if they have a minor dent, let alone stuffed brakes!

[TehMG]

Before you start bashing people's posts, at least try to use proper spelling and grammar.

FYI "cuplible" is not a word.

By the way, when I said the brakes "were fine in normal braking, but failed at slamming on" what I meant by that is I couldn't have known the brakes wouldn't slam on, because in normal day-to-day driving you don't need to slam them on (unless you're an aggressive driver). So I didn't know the brakes were poorly maintained until it was too late.

Also how is that a felony???

[tcpnetworks]

Not bashing - informing.

The issue you have with your vehicle is that it's poorly maintained. The criminal aspects come in when you drive it on the public road. It is a criminal offence to drive an unwarrantable vehicle on the road.

[automotrizcenter]

is great, I download as the discharge

[nrhegpaintman]

mine just went off the car wasn't even in an accedent it just went off didn't hit anything just a loose bumper on the passenger side with no one on that side of the car do you think a sensor to test for people on that side of the car was too big a cost or did that idea just go straight over thier heads

[WorldFamousProducts]

ur dumb...

[Arm2]

The airbag didn't break the windshield. Why not? When I crashed my Pontiac sunfire, the passenger side airbag broke the windshield.

[Rejekt176]

I'm gonna take a shot at answering this.

The passenger airbag in the vid is aimed directly at the passenger. The airbag in your sunfire is probably like a lot of other cars. They deploy upwards (breaking the windshield) then at the passenger.

[The96sunfiregt]

@Rejekt176 your right my sunifre is like that sorry i know i'm not the guy you were originally talkin to but just thought i'd let you know your right

[ChrisBennett18]

it cost a lot to replace that

[ezy300]

i really dont know about airbags but can't an airbag coming out that hard hurt you?

[Whoatemycheese]

Earlier airbags did have the potential to hurt you, but most newer airbags are "dual stage" and deploy with varying levels of force depending on speed/severity of the crash and/or occupant weight and/or seatbelt usage and are much safer. Still, the injuries caused by an airbag will be much less severe than the injuries they prevent.

[2002altima]

the deployment of the passenger airbag was weak. to me thats a waste of money

[kanadiankid28]

He was driving, illegally without his license in his mom's car and she didn't know about it but still. He couldn't really sue considering he wasn't supposed to be driving.

[whattheheck1000]

passenger airbags aren't even necessary. a little seat belt tension does the job (back in the 80s a well-designed seat belt could keep a passenger from striking the dash at 35 mph)

Driver airbags are important because there is much less space between driver and steering wheel.

[kanadiankid28]

Yeah, my buddy crunched his mom's Hyundai Santa Fe and he just went right through the air bag and broke his nose on the steering wheel, better than a broken skull though.

[commswarrior]

This would only occur if you were an idiot, or an american, and you were NOT wearing a seat belt.

Airbags have that little "SRS" acryonym before the word "airbag".. That stands for SUPPLIMENTAL RESTRAINT SYSTEM - not PRIMARY restraint system. That's what the seat belt would be for.

[kanadiankid28]

so you don't smash your face off the dash, it doesn't cushion the blow, it tries to slow your body down so you don't crush your skull on the dash of the vehicle.

[esoeso12]

eee

my brother drives one of those

and i ride pasanger

but o well

[inuyashazelda778]

wow that would break alot of bones??!!??

[harwell299]

Only is your really close lol

[dickcheney6]

@inuyashazelda778 Only if you are sitting too close to it, or if you're riding in front before you meet the height requirements (I doubt one would be pulled over for that unless it was a child who still had a car seat of any kind, and there was no obvious reason for them to be in front, plus a cop couldn't tell if the vehicle had an air bag)

If you're positioned properly, you will hit it after it's already inflated, and that's how it was meant to protect you.

[chese0000]

that airbag was useless.. that deployed way below where you face would have normally hit in a head-on collision.

[megabyte11]

It's not supposed to hit you in the face, it's supposed to hit you in the chest...

[whattheheck1000]

@megabyte11 Airbags ain't hitting me nowhere! I'm hitting THEM.

[LuqmanK]

looks kinda dangerous

[classicvacuum]

POP!

[jmays500]

Geeze that's fast! You always see them in slow motion, so you you don't relize.

[ethorlakson1]

wow. brand new truck.

[Energonorama]

I assume the bang and flash makes you pass out nicely so you dont tense up and snap into a zillion pieces.

They should put a smily face on them..

[soccerdude7330]

ROFL!!!

[BJ4HAGA]

Is that a dodge truck?

[kitbomb]

its not a Dodge its a 2007 GMC Sierra. The truck was stolen off the factory lot, recovered, and than GM decided to donate it for educational purposes.

[airbagshurt]

cool

[soccerdude7330]

Daaang... that was cool, lol. Would most likely hurt too... did the hand rest above the air bag pop up? My Chevorlet Tahoe has the same air bag and hand rest. I dodn't know it comes up. Does it pop up to make room for the cover to come up all of the way?

[kitbomb]

the panel on the front does flip down, so if you have passengers that like to put their legs on the dash it would be advised that they don't as their legs would become mush if the bag were to deploy

[wysiwyg248]

soccerdude,

The hand rest above the airbag pops up due to the impact of the airbag door swinging up.

[soccerdude7330]

Yeah, thats what i was talking about. Well i wonder how much force it takes to pop up. (Speaking of an airbag, probably ALOT!!!)

[mwr0585]

Dude you dont wanna meet one they suck ass and its a smell you will never forget

[IvoryTower]

cool

[tmaxx4life]

sweet