UTC Airbag Fatalities I removed this In Europe the number of people not wearing their seatbelts is very small when compared to the US and Europeans are less likely to be obese As a direct result of these two points European airbags are less powerful than their American counterparts and are therefore less likely to cause loss of life than those fitted to American cars Give me a break If you want to reintroduce this please provide citations for every claim made in the paragraph Agreed I ve heard the exact opposite regarding airbag deployment strength in factthat American market cars have less forceful airbags because the occupants are more likely not to be wearing their seat belt whereas in Europe the airbags can deploy faster more forcefully because it s assume you re wearing a seatbelt KeplerNiko With exception to the Europeans being less obese bit I d probably agree with that first statement sounds about right to me Dates of Deployment I take strong issue with the discussion of the dates of airbags first being used in vehicles especially since it seems to me that it violates Wikipedia Neutral point of view It seems to me that this article is American car biased a country whose automobile manufacturers are most assuredly not first when I think of those who were first adopters of new safety technology Particularly the line about Chrysler making airbags standard equipment across its entire line in 1990 makes it sound like Chrysler was the first manufacturer to standardize airbag installation The next paragraph indicates however that US cars produced after 1 April 1989 must have either airbags or automatic seat belts latter is news to me it seems to me that the vast majority of manufacturers opted to install airbags over seat belt systems However the way the article is written it seems like Chrysler s actions were unique and most of all done out of its own initiative rather than being federally mandated Quite simply Chrysler was neither the only company to take this step nor did it have a choice in the matter I think the line implying Chrysler did something innovative should be stricken KeplerNiko 1970 s Implication The US experiment in the early 1970 s ended pretty quickly as I recall Does the article mean to imply that this was ongoing Maine gov Link Regarding link Maine gov How do air bags work Link has gone bad Found replacement link at but there is little useful information there As the link adds nothing to the article I removed the link entirely airbags only reduce fatalities in those wearing seatbelts by 8 Following up on an old point by Tekfiler the government does not want you to know this number since that would be clear indication of a collossal waste in terms of cost benefit analysis So the stat is never called out The NHTSA page has some interesting data on how U S highway deaths have been declining at a slower rate than in other industrialised nations If airbags were really all they are cracked up to be seems that would not be true It is also advised that you do nt sit too close to the steering wheel because when the airbag inflates it will crush you back in your seat stopping you from inhaling cause your crest can t go out therefore stopping you from breathing Inventor altered On 22 19 7 October 2007 User Happyyarn changed inventor John W Hetrick Patrick W Hetrick Is this correct the only change this user made Deleted Link I deleted the external link that was said to show a clip of an airbag exploding This link was spam Regarding age The article said children under 12 should always be in the back seat I changed it to 13 because a 12 year old could get killed by an airbag 21 48 9 November 2007