Sentences with phrase «estimates of side airbag»
Estimates of side airbag effectiveness in SUVs are based on newer models only (2001 - 04s during 2000 - 04).
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Both the older study and the new one reveal side airbag benefits, but the estimates of effectiveness differ.
The best estimates from the new analyses, based on the combined set of vehicles (1997 - 2004 models), show somewhat smaller benefits of head - protecting side airbags and larger benefits of torso airbags, compared with the earlier study.
In 2003 Institute researchers produced estimates of the benefits of side airbags in preventing car driver deaths.
The best estimates from the new analyses, based on the combined set of vehicles (1997 - 2004s), show somewhat smaller benefits of head - protecting side airbags and larger benefits of torso airbags, compared with the earlier study.
Both the 2003 study and the new one reveal side airbag benefits, but the estimates of effectiveness differ.
Besides computing the overall effectiveness estimates — 45 percent fatality risk reduction for drivers of cars with head - protecting side airbags, 11 percent reduction with torso - only side airbags — the researchers broke down the findings into more specific results.
To estimate side airbag effectiveness in on - the - road crashes, Institute researchers used data from the federal Fatality Analysis Reporting System and General Estimates System to compute the relative risk of dying for drivers of 1997 - 2002 car models with and without side airbags when their vehicles were struck on the left (driver) side.