Test your knowledge about air bags. Air bags are only a supplement to seat-belts. An air bag will protect you in most types of collisions, including rollovers, rear impacts and side impacts. Air bags are designed to deploy only once. An infant in a rear-facing child safety seat is safe in the front seat of a car with a passenger side air bag.
Air bags kill more people than they save.
Air bags are designed to supplement the protection provided by safety belts. They distribute the force of impact more evenly over the occupant's upper body in frontal and front-angle collisions. In those cases, the air bag is not helpful because the occupant's motion is not toward the steering wheel or instrument panel. After it inflates, the air bag system must be replaced. Without repair, it will not provide protection in another crash.