Because they detect changes in motion and orientation, they're a natural fit for automotive airbag sensors.
This will determine how rapidly the airbag inflates, or whether it inflates at all.
They also think an airbag "is someone who talks more than they act, " Cappa says.
Never use a rear-facing child car seat in a seat protected by an active frontal airbag.
Forward-facing child car seats should be as far back from the airbag as possible.
Instead of a pressurised gas container, the backpack uses a lithium-ion battery to power the airbag with a fan.
The first airbag system was patented, and the company ABS founded, in 1980.
After many injuries to children and small women, car companies are trying to make the front-impact airbag safer.
The airbag covers approximately a third of the windscreen and is designed to minimise injury to the victim's head.
The AP says Honda is expanding its airbag inflation recall to 378, 000 cars.
Others warn that wearing an airbag can give users a feeling of invincibility, encouraging them to take risks they normally would not.
He guided the car to a safe stop and nobody was injured in the crash although the driver's airbag did deploy.
They are already being used in car-airbag sensors and digital image projectors.
Even in the US, there are ways around the airbag prohibition.
If a skier is pushed off a cliff, gets stuck in a divot or suffers trauma from hitting rocks or trees, an airbag deployment may be useless.
Ryo Sakai, a spokesperson for Toyota, told the BBC that the firm had received reports of five separate incidents of the airbag inflator being ruptured.
The mission demonstrated airbag technology in landing the rover without damage.
Chugach provides every single passenger with a state-of-the-art Mammut avalanche airbag pack, the first US heli operator I know of to do so, at no extra cost.
Until about three years ago, the only places to find MEMS at work were in automotive airbag systems, industrial process controls, inkjet printers and projectors and displays.
Toyota, which is recalling 1.73 million cars, said the vehicles had a defective part which "could cause the airbag inflator to rupture and deploy the airbag abnormally in a crash".
Accelerometers are used in cars to detect when to inflate an airbag, in devices like the Nintendo Wii controller and in Apple laptops to detect if the computer is being dropped.
And in April, Toyota recalled 214, 000 RAV4s and 94, 000 Highlander and Highlander HV vehicles for airbag sensor problems and another 51, 000 of its Tundra trucks to inspect their rear drive shafts, according to the company.
In May it will release its first car fitted with an airbag beneath its bonnet which will inflate if sensors in the front bumper detect they have come into contact with a cyclist or pedestrian.
Meanwhile, the cost of airbags has fallen by more than 90% over the past decade, notes Franz Wressnigg, who is president of the Automotive Systems Group of Germany's Siemens, one of the world's largest airbag suppliers.
Washington (CNN) -- Federal authorities say they've launched an investigation into the 2012 Hyundai Elantra after a vehicle owner claimed the driver-side airbag improperly deployed during a traffic accident, resulting in a severe cut to his ear.
The solution consists of a remote electric-powered vehicle that can accelerate up to 130 MPH within 3 seconds, position itself under a fleeing car, then automatically trigger a restrained airbag to lift the car and slide it to a stop.
In an effort to save smartphones from the landfill, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos recently patented a design for a smartphone airbag system and we fell head over heels for the Scrubba, a portable washing machine made of lightweight material that's so small it can fit in your pocket.
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