Benefits and Risks of Car Airbags
                     BENEFITS AND RISK OF 
CAR AIRBAGS
Introduction
 Car bags are like soft pillow to land 
against in a crash.
 Invented during World War II. 
 The first commercial airbags available in 
market  in the year 1980. Image ref. carandbikes
 In accident whenever car crashes, car’s momentum has How it works
changed in very few seconds but the passengers' has no 
changed in his momentum.
 In such a case force needed to stop the car is very high. 
 Airbag help to slow down the speed of  driver speed to 
zero, without  any damage.
 The airbags open and add some space between the driver  News mail
and dashboard to slow down speed instantly.
Benefits of having car airbags 
 Car airbags provide extra level protection in the case of future 
accidents.
 
 Airbags slow down the speed of car in uncontrollable 
situation. 
Benefits of having car airbags 
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 Driver should see a major reduction in their premium by 
having airbags in their car.
  Cars with the airbags see far fewer deaths per year than 
cars that don’t install airbags.
 
Benefits of having car airbags 
 cars with airbags reduce significantly the number of 
auto accidents deaths.
 The reduction of deaths in general purpose vehicles was around 
37 percent for the year 2006. 
 In sports car, this reduction was 52 percent. 
Risk of having car airbags 
 We have to take special care for using car 
airbags.
 Passenger has to seat properly, if he is having 
airbags in his car. If it is open by mistake can 
hurt the passenger.
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Risk of having car airbags 
 They are designed to protect but in some cases airbags can 
actually injure us. 
 Injuries can be most harmful to children, infants and pregnant 
women.
  Most of the time chest injury due to the airbags is damn hard 
that can take ones life.
Risk of having car airbags 
 Deployment of car airbags is very risky. 
After deployment, it is difficult to re-
position the airbags for the next 
deployment. 
 Airbag reset is very expensive and waste of 
the time. 
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Conclusion
 Although airbags can help to save lives, they can also cause injury.
 Special care has to be taken if passengers are children and pregnant 
ladies.
 The risk of death is much superior than the risk of getting wounded by 
an airbag. So, it is wise to have car airbags to stay safe.