Sentences with phrase «risk without side airbags»

We didn't record high injury forces on any of the dummies in the back seats, but in a crash at a different speed or configuration the heads of back - seat passengers would be at risk without side airbags,» Lund notes.

Not exact matches

The risk presented by a side - impact collision in a VX fitted without side airbags is reduced by 50 percent when compared to a similarly specified VT model.

The authors of both studies calculated fatality risk in cars without side airbags, with head - protecting side airbags, and with airbags that protect people's torsos but not their heads (almost all vehicles with head - protecting airbags provide torso protection too).

The authors calculated fatality risk in cars without side airbags, with head - protecting side airbags, and with airbags that protect the chest and abdomen but not the head (almost all vehicles with head - protecting airbags provide torso protection too).

Consequence: If the terminal was damaged, the passenger side curtain airbag could fail to deploy in an accident or deploy without cause (you can't very well say «accidentally» because that is exactly what it is designed to do), increasing the risk of passenger injury in a motor vehicle collision.

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.