Spontaneous Airbag Deployment while Drifting

GM's official position, "Don't drive aggressively in your Camaro."......bullshit.

GM's Alan Adler said this:

It is unusual to have this occur. However, it is possible for a driver to create conditions where the air bag sensors believe a rollover is imminent. This can lead to an unwanted air bag deployment. On rollover side curtain bags, the vehicle's rollover sensing system is looking for a certain set of factors that "predict" a vehicle is going to roll over. The airbag system cannot wait until it is too late to deploy the airbags. Drifting or creating a situation that has a certain combination of speed and vehicle angle can lead to an unwanted air bag deployment.

So if I drive My new Camaro the way it was intended and advertised, GM will kill me with fire?

Paul Beiswenger with Lopez Tires and E&A Autosport got a big surprise while drifting at Milan Dragway in Milan MI. The passenger suffered burns on her right arm.

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[Matthew King]

Side airbags are designed to deploy when the system detects a roll over crash using a Yaw sensor, When the sensor detects the car starting to tip it activates the stabilitrak first, Since im guessing you disabled that it had no choice but to deploy side airbags.

Next time u might want to pull the airbag fuse :) GM is not the only company that uses this technology.

[Alan G]

Silly you, I didn't do anything other than hold the camera.

If I buy a performance car and try to perform with it, what other modifications should I be required make before I can drive it "as advertised"?

[jorge10928]

Should be covered by bumper-to-bumper warranty.

[kaodeq]

next time disconnect the air bags or the fuse

[mph4701]

Me a troll? You are the miserable no life shit for brains troll responding to a comment made over a year ago. Get off of mommy and daddys computer and go get a life fucktard.

[An3ggPlant1]

I'm questioning whether you're a troll or just literally a fucking idiot. Side curtain airbags go off in order to protect the passengers from either a side collision or rollover. Is that a defect?

Since the car thought it was going to rollover, the airbags deployed. Is that too difficult to comprehend, or?

[An3ggPlant1]

In what advertisement has Chevrolet said that you can or should drive like a douchebag? The car thought that there was going to be an accident and tried to save the passengers.

It's sad that instead of blaming the driver they say, "OHHHH WHAT A FUCKING PIECE OF SHIT CAR WHY WOULD IT TRY TO SAVE ME FROM A CAR ACCIDENT!?!?"

[0TheLostArtist0]

@Furious321 I meant to add on another comment but it didn't go through I see. I was going to add maybe they should at least have a GPS enabled system somewhat like the GTR that senses it's at a track and actually gives it a higher threshold for performance driving. This shouldn't have happened, not I this situation and GM even said so. I'm glad that the safety is there but I should be able to drive my performance vehicle like a performance vehicle. That's all I'm saying.

[Furious321]

You're driving on an interstate at 70+ mph. You get pulled toward to the right by deep water that has pooled on the shoulder. You react and send it back to the left, leading to a loss of traction, and you soon find yourself fishtailing (exactly what this driver is doing at 0:36). This looks silly on wide open pavement, but no road is as wide as the area this guy uses to whip his car around. If he maneuvered like this on a road, he wouldn't get away with it, and he'd be thankful for side airbags.

[0TheLostArtist0]

the manufactuers put such big emphasis on those things in advertisement of these types of vehicles? Tell me that? Not knocking it for detecting a rollover but this shit shouldn't happen like that and your comment pissed me off. U basically said a performance car shouldn't perform. Like castrating a fighting bull. So we don't need to grow up, we just need our damn performance cars to perform.

[0TheLostArtist0]

What the fuck do u mean?!! It's a 425hp performance car!!! It's designed to PERFORM and it should. It's not a FWD Camry. It was designed to b driven this way or else they wouldn't have implemented all of the performance bits into it. People buy a car like this to be a fun daily driver that can be driven to the track, have fun, and driven bak home. The damn things are designed on a track and a wind tunnel for god's sake!!!! Why post 0-60 times, G-force, 1/4 mile times and the such in reviews and

[Christopher West]

Fail... This is why I'm strictly Japanese.