The following is a non-comprehensive list of airbag failure-related automobile recalls instituted in April through June of 2007 from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA):
DaimlerChrysler is recalling 39 MY 2007 Dodge and Freightliner Sprinter 2500 and 3500 trucks. The window airbag module diffuser drapery may just contain hairline cracks. In the case of a crash with a trigger signal for the window airbag module, it's conceivable that such a diffuser may just crack at first of the airbag activation.
Unfortunately, because the number of airbags being placed in new motors has elevated, so has the general need for the airbags themselves. Thus, more airbags are manufactured and the general major quality of the airbags produced has seen some degree of decline. One way this lessen in major quality has turn into apparent is in the expanding incidence of faulty airbags and airbag failure in automobiles produced both in the United States and overseas.
April 2007 BMW is recalling 225 MY 2007 6-Series passenger vehicles for failing to comply to the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard No. 208, 'Occupant Crash Protection. The front passenger seat has a sensing system that detects if the seat is occupied. This sensing is programmed to detect if the seat is occupied by a small adult or certain new child restraint seats. Placing certain new child seats on the front passenger seat is designed to outcome in the computerized deactivation of the front seat passenger's airbag. In some occasions, the sensing system may just misinterpret a effectively seated small adult as one of these real new child seats, ensuing in deactivation of the front passenger airbag when the airbag possibly beneficial for the adult, expanding the risk of injury in a crash.
During a vehicle accident a couple of sensors throughout the vehicle determine the severity of the crash. An onboard computer, referred to as the Electronic Control Unit (ECU), processes the information and, in an event of moderate to serious crash, it sends a signal to the inflater inner the air bag module. At that facet the airbag is supposed to inflate, protecting the vehicle's occupants from serious injury subsequently of striking the vehicle's interior. As a outcome of the effectiveness of initial driver and passenger front airbags, the adoption of rear-passenger and side-have an impact on curtain airbags has turn into more normal over the past decade, in an strive to create the highest degree of protection conceivable.
As one can see from this small sampling of the faulty airbag recalls that experience been instituted either voluntarily by auto makers, or at the insistence of the NHTSA, there are many occasions in which one or so much of the airbags installed in a vehicle will not operate as intended and therefore be a faulty airbag that may outcome in an airbag failure in an accident.
DaimlerChrysler is recalling 798 MY 2007-2008 Sebring and MY 2008 Dodge Avenger vehicles. The front seat track position sensors applied for the air bag system may just not function effectively. This could increase the risk of injury to front seat occupants in the course of certain crash stipulations.
DaimlerChrysler is recalling 270,958 MY 2005 Town and Country and Dodge Caravan minivans originally bought in or currently registered in the 27 states plus the District of Columbia that use more advantageous amounts of salt for winter road deicing. The up-front (UF) airbag sensors that contain brass bushings installed in these vehicles may just corrode and crack allowing water to enter the sensor. These sensors give enhanced air bag performance in certain types of frontal crashes. In one of these crashes, with one or both of the vehicle's UF sensors inoperative, the occupants will not advantage from the improved air bag security that these sensors would give.
Hyundai de Puerto Rico is recalling 2,967 MY 2005-2007 Tucson vehicles. Static airbag deployment testing conducted by NHTSA using fifth percentile female dummies indicated that a small stature adult driver not wearing a seat belt and involved in a frontal or near frontal crash, the deployment of the driver air bag may just outcome in an insufficient margin of compliance as measured by the test dummy used in the NHTSA test. This can outcome in elevated risk of injury to the driver under certain crash stipulations.
Since their invention in the 1950s, up through development in the course of the 1970s and finally institution as a required feature in the 1980s, airbags have gotten an relevant component in decreasing injuries of those involved in automotive accidents. Airbags function as supplemental protection devices designed to work with seat belts to minimize injuries in vehicle accidents. In theory, airbags cut the chance that the occupant of a vehicle's upper body or head will strike the vehicle's interior in the course of a crash, thus decreasing the incidence of injury. Both frontal and side-have an impact on air bags are designed to deploy in moderate to serious crashes.
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