David Lister My mom is alive today thanks to the strong side structure and side airbags in a 2008 Honda Accord. (I live in the USA so it’s the USA Accord, but I’m sure a European Accord of the same generation (08-14) would have protected her as well) February 4, 2018 4:35 am
@@dstblj5222 You misunderstood me. I mean the fact that doors have electronics and extra stuff in them makes them thicker, not the metal that makes them up. Bare components, narrower door (from the edges) and more components require more space, so a thicker appearing door. The metal thickness is the same regardless.
Two years later from this film Ford launched the Mondeo, a car that had a drivers airbag standard accross the range. Others soon followed by fitting them.
1:28 - crazy that airbags was made mandatory in 1995 in America, when even today there are countries that still doesn't have airbags as a mandatory item. In my country, it was only made mandatory in 2012, and even then it was only for the driver's side! There are cars being sold today here that only have two airbags, instead of the 6/7 that's more common in developed nations.
As of 1992 in the UK market, airbags were standard on Mercedes Benz S-Class (W140), SL-Class and 500E; Honda NSX, Legend, and certain high-spec trim levels of Prelude and Civic; BMW 850; Nissan Maxima SE; Mitsubishi 3000GT; and high-spec trim levels of Saab 9000. Notice how these are all either executive/upmarket or sports cars. Volvo though offered airbags on all its models for extra money, as did BMW I believe. Rover also offered it on the upmarket 800. I think in 1993 many "standard" cars were finally getting airbags too, like Ford Escort, Mondeo, Vauxhall Astra, Cavalier, VW Golf and Passat.
They still use that in some small way. Look at any modern car and where the airbag is placed will usually be text that says SRS airbag. What model/ year is your Chevy, if I might ask? Just curious.
@RedRoosterRoad We certainly were for a while. Requiring bumpers that absorb impacts up to 5mph since the 70s, and an impact beam running between the chassis rails, passive safety systems required since 1990, airbags required since 1998, door beam side impact protection require since 1995, and now side airbags and stability control required on every car in the next few years.
1990-1994 Gen1 Ford Airbags was very deadly. They was put in the 1990-93 Taurus/Sable/Continentail The 1990-94 Ford Crown Victoria/Grand Marquis/Towncar. By the middle of '94 Ford started with the Gen2 Airbags that also featured Pre-Tension Seatbelts im most models. The 1994-1995 Taurus/Sable/Continentail was i believe the first to recieve those features as the 1989-97 Ford Thunderbird never had airbags until 1994 they was both planned by the 1990 model year to have them equipped in the MN12 Pl
+Clayton Mascarenhas Drivers in India tend to drive a lot slower due to the nature of the roads anyway. There are bigger issues with road safety generally than worrying about crash tests. Though I'm sure that will come. Here back in the UK we grew up without safety belts being compulsory. I'm not against safety - I wear a seatbelt and happy to have an airbag....but media will ram something down your throat and people will start repeating it......like...oh my God....this car doesn't have an airbag....we're all gonna die! People drove before without worrying about these things.
+fontheking5 I keep seeing people patting American car maker's on the back for being first on this . Yes, Chevrolet did have a small fleet of Impala's in the early 70's that were driver's side airbag equipped . As the video points out though, the reality is our car companies fought putting in airbags tooth and nail . In fact Chevrolet abandoned the airbag idea after 1973 citing lack of customer interest . It wasn't until our government (and the Canadian government) slipped a revision in requiring airbags that they became widely used . In fact, (as was again noted in the video) Chrysler was the very first to equip all of their cars with a driver's side air bag as standard in 1989 (They did so voluntarily, but used it as a marketing tool) The fact is that until the late 1980's, American car makers only did what they had to do in order to meet the current government safety standards, and fought tougher and better standards with all the lobbyists they could afford . In the late 80's, safety became fashionable and a selling point . It was then we started seeing manufacturers go above and beyond government standards for safety . (A trend that still continues)
@STEFAZON500 It was actually 2 airbags, it was 1972, it was Oldsmobile, Buick, and Cadillac, and it wasn't either or, you could get the airbags fitted as an option, not instead of seat belts.
They ARE required, except with special permission for low-volume independently manufactured cars (i.e Noble, Morgan which sell under X amount of cars a year) and for commercial vehicles (which is what the Defender is classified as.)
Certainly true. I was puzzled last year by a 1995-96 Renault Safrane crash test (watch?v=K6tsgzFvVI0) with child occupants(dummies), that showed the airbag to be much smaller than the ones I've seen in other '90s crash tests from the US. The Safrane passenger airbag looked like US driver airbags.
@FHCTech Not all cars have it labeled as "SRS", some cars they were called "SIR" "Supplemental Inflatable Resistant", some cars it's simply "AIRBAG", and a few aren't labeled at all. However you are VERY right in saying not wearing a belt, even with an airbag, is worse. It's basically pointless to have an airbag with no seat belt. That same airbag that can save your life if you're wearing a belt at 50mph, is almost completely useless without the belt at as little as 20mph.
I'm pretty sure in the US, Chrysler was the first to offer a driver airbag in their cars. I had a 1989 Lebaron convertible, as shown in this video. It had an airbag. All Chryslers were airbag equipped by 1990. Ford and GM didn't offer airbags in all of their car models until 1995, when the government required them. European luxury cars had airbags as far back as the early 1980's. I think that was Mercedes.
If I must correct myself, the Audi V8 received a standard passenger airbag in 1991 as part of its mid-cycle facelift. The car in the shots at the right with the larger airbag is the Lincoln Continental, the first American car to have a passenger side airbag (after W126 in early 1988) in August 1988. Stupid presenter forgets that the steering wheel is NOT on the right in US cars, so clearly that's a rare for 1991 passenger airbag. Obviously a circular Euro driver's airbag will be smaller than that of a larger U.S. passenger airbag. Honda/Acura, Audi, BMW, Porsche, and MB were the only ones to offer dual airbags in 1991. The W126 S-Class offered a driver's airbag since 1981 and since February 1988 for the passenger. BMW offered a passenger airbag on the E32 7-Series from January 1990, Honda on the Legend from October 1990, and Audi from 1991 (replaced Proc-ten). Volvo offered the first side impact airbag in 1994 and BMW in 1997 for head protection with HPS.
It's always Americans that term the U.K. A nanny state, actually France, Scandinavia & Germany etc have far more intervention of the state into private & business lives. The British tend to end up with a weird combination of American business practices imported through takeovers & mergers fuelled by a mistaken belief that common language is common culture & EU legislation from the other direction. In the car industry sector we were behind on safety in the 1990s but fast forward ten years & the situation was changing rapidly.
Honda/Acura was the first Japanese automaker to offer standard dual airbags in 1990 with the Legend alongside Porsche, Mercedes-Benz, and Ford Motor Co. Shocking that not even BMW nor Jaguar did so until later in 1992 and 1993. Lexus and Audi also waited until 1992. The clip at 2:55 is misleading, as that's clearly a MY1992 Ford Taurus passenger airbag, not a driver's one.
Behaviors should be modified according to the vehicle in use. In an ABS equipped car, best practice for a safe panic stop is to jam on the brake, while in non-ABS equipped cars, it's encouraged to "pump" the brakes. Braking incorrectly for the vehicle would result in longer stopping distances or a loss of control. I'd sooner everyone learns "stamp the brakes and hold them down" and have most cars fitted with ABS then see the results of confusion from some with and some without.
nubetre Fortunately, most cars on the road now have ABS. Many younger drivers learned to drive on ABS. I was born in 1992 and have had 6 airbags, ABS and ESC from the day I got my first car. (I’m in the USA. 2008 Honda Accord sedan.) February 4, 2018 4:34 am
It's stupider than that. Gray market imports (i.e. vehicles imported by private citizens) were becoming a big deal in the '70s and '80s as a way to get better optioned cars and perhaps save some money (more on that in a moment.) Manufacturers didn't like this because they were paying to federalize their cars and import them only for private individuals to import the ones they sold overseas. Dealers REALLY didn't like this because it jeopardized the stranglehold they had on the new car market, in part because (in many cases) the privately imported vehicles were cheaper. So the manufacturers and dealer associations gave the federal government a lot of money and the government in turn forbade anyone from privately importing vehicles that didn't comply with US safety and emissions standards unless they were 25 years old or older.
Europe were dragging their feet? It wasn't until 1993 that Australia built a car with an airbag, and even then, they weren't fitted as standard in the Holden VR Commodore, infact, Holden didn't fit their cars with them as standard equipment until 1997, where as the Ford EF Falcon of 1994 (American company, Australian built and designed car) offered airbags as standard across the entire range. America would have to be the leading the country in terms of vehicle safety.. (well, at least they used to be).
I'd say Germany and Sweden were the large ones in the safety department. After all, it was Mercedes-Benz who invented the airbag, crumple zones, ESP, and much more. Saab and Volvo (together with Mercedes research) also invented the three point seat belt.
JackpodyDK Actually AMC ( American Motors Corporation ) was first with cruise control in 1965, and the 1973 Chevrolet Impala was the first car with airbag :)Volvo invented the 3 point seatbelt and launched it in 1959, they did patent it, but let everyone use it for free :)
I never mentioned cruise control, the airbag IS a Mercedes-Benz invention, they had the patents done in 1969 and were experimenting with it way before. Chevrolet Impala may have been the first to market it, that's a completely different thing than making it. The fact Chevrolet used 3 years on it and Mercedes used 16 also shows which manufacturer did it properly. Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbag Volvo invented the three point seat belt together with Saab and research done by Mercedes. The first car to use it was a Volvo, but nonetheless, the three manufacturers helped each other to get the idea on the road. Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seat_belt
I've been in crashes with cars with and without airbags (wearing seat belts in both) now I've never been in a high speed crash but from my experience in low speed around 40 mph I got hurt a hell of a lot more in the car with the airbag then without i'm sure if it was faster the table would have been turned but don't understand why such things need to be mandatory when over half are recalled because they could turn out to be shrapnel grenades upon impact but nonetheless I understand there is safety benefits in certain situations
So now that we have airbags everyone feels like they can drive along an inch away from each others bumpers with complete impunity. So I propose a new law for tailgaters, where there vehicle has its airbags removed. -Moron- Problem Solved.
4:36.......currently looking for victims created by the inability of the industry to actively progress by benefitting the buyer. Of course the dead people will not be able to offer their opinion.
If only air bags were still optional we wouldn't have to have those horrible over-sized ugly steering wheels to accommodate them! Personal safety is supposed to be a personal choice!
My thoughts exactly. These governments and corporations don't really give a rats ass about us. And all these squeamish busy bodies that push for all these regulations and safety features in these cars only make them more expensive, harder to repair...and just plain ugly. We had to write off one of our perfectly good cars because a stupid turn signal didn't work and we couldn't find a replacement. A perfectly good car. Scrapped because a light wasn't working. Christ that's none of the governments, or the safety freaks damn business...
They should make cars more crash resistant before tossing in airbags. Look at all the supposedly "safe" cars with airbags that crumple like paper in a crash. In that case airbags do more harm.
To be honest, I don't want airbags. They're extremely heavy and make the steering wheel ugly. In my Mercedes, thanks to big brother legislation, I don't have a glovebox because Mercedes were forced to fill it with a big airbag that more than 80% of the time would activate to protect an empty passenger seat. The laws are just stupid; if I don't want airbags, I shouldn't have to have them. Same thing for those annoying seatbelt. If people want airbags, fine but don't make me use them.
+Bigbooster126 Clearly because you feel one way about airbags, that must be the only logical opinion. Right? I'm so sorry I dared to stray from your views. How about you fuck off?
if there was a cliff and you just jumped off because of your opinion. i would still see you as an idiot. it would be my opinion that you shouldn't jump, but if you want to go ahead... your funeral. now replace the cliff with a deathtrap car
+Axel Trainwagon My modern Skoda (US VW/ Audi) has 2 gloveboxes and the airbag deploy's from a panel above same. I understand your frustration regarding the stupidity of Mercedes design, It does not have to be that way, I have been driving cars with air bags since 2000's and seat belts since the 70's, never needed them as I have not crashed, including rally competitions. I also ride motorcycles and always wear a helmet, gloves & armoured clothing, not because i'm gonna fall off my bike, but like driving it's possible some idiot will crash into me.
I would like the optional airbag back. They brain wash people with these airbags. If your wearing your seatbelt correctly and tightly you'll be fine in a crash I guarantee it. Happened to my uncle at 40mph had no airbags and was just fine. And I was in the car as well.
It's crazy to watch this today "Aribags optional" I mean you can't imagine to drive a car without one nowadys
Side airbags were optional as were power windows, mirrors and esc even into the mid 2000's
needforsuv stability control only became compulsory in 2012. I don't have it on my 2005 Vauxhall Corsa.
mazda 3 2005+ had optional esc
GünzBrony i just bought a 88' mazda! No bags.
The Fiat Punto had optional side airbags as late as 2018
My friends 2004 Vauxhall Corsa C (Opel) only has 1 airbag, a drivers
'Side-Impact airbags ARE being developed...'. Amazing how far we've come. Scary how thin that door is at 3:41!!
David Lister My mom is alive today thanks to the strong side structure and side airbags in a 2008 Honda Accord. (I live in the USA so it’s the USA Accord, but I’m sure a European Accord of the same generation (08-14) would have protected her as well)
February 4, 2018 4:35 am
Doors are still that thin. Just fill with more air and some electronics. The metal thickness is almost identical
It's a Rover Metro....the whole car has about as much strength as an old tissue box!
@@forevercomputing Thick metal doesn't same lives in car crashes never has never will
@@dstblj5222 You misunderstood me. I mean the fact that doors have electronics and extra stuff in them makes them thicker, not the metal that makes them up.
Bare components, narrower door (from the edges) and more components require more space, so a thicker appearing door.
The metal thickness is the same regardless.
Two years later from this film Ford launched the Mondeo, a car that had a drivers airbag standard accross the range. Others soon followed by fitting them.
1:28 - crazy that airbags was made mandatory in 1995 in America, when even today there are countries that still doesn't have airbags as a mandatory item. In my country, it was only made mandatory in 2012, and even then it was only for the driver's side! There are cars being sold today here that only have two airbags, instead of the 6/7 that's more common in developed nations.
fascinating video, my wife's SMax even has knee airbags, amazing how things have changed
the avensis had this since very early 2000s
As of 1992 in the UK market, airbags were standard on Mercedes Benz S-Class (W140), SL-Class and 500E; Honda NSX, Legend, and certain high-spec trim levels of Prelude and Civic; BMW 850; Nissan Maxima SE; Mitsubishi 3000GT; and high-spec trim levels of Saab 9000. Notice how these are all either executive/upmarket or sports cars. Volvo though offered airbags on all its models for extra money, as did BMW I believe. Rover also offered it on the upmarket 800.
I think in 1993 many "standard" cars were finally getting airbags too, like Ford Escort, Mondeo, Vauxhall Astra, Cavalier, VW Golf and Passat.
My chevy is old enough that they hadn't invented the word airbag yet. It's called the supplemental restraint system.
They still use that in some small way. Look at any modern car and where the airbag is placed will usually be text that says SRS airbag. What model/ year is your Chevy, if I might ask? Just curious.
It's a shame Nike didn't develop car airbags. It would be labelled ' Nike Air'
@@Machouseproductions Only the side impact(not side curtain) does that on my 2012 kia
@RedRoosterRoad We certainly were for a while. Requiring bumpers that absorb impacts up to 5mph since the 70s, and an impact beam running between the chassis rails, passive safety systems required since 1990, airbags required since 1998, door beam side impact protection require since 1995, and now side airbags and stability control required on every car in the next few years.
Didn't know airbags were still a new thing in the early 90's.
1990-1994 Gen1 Ford Airbags was very deadly. They was put in the 1990-93 Taurus/Sable/Continentail The 1990-94 Ford Crown Victoria/Grand Marquis/Towncar. By the middle of '94 Ford started with the Gen2 Airbags that also featured Pre-Tension Seatbelts im most models. The 1994-1995 Taurus/Sable/Continentail was i believe the first to recieve those features as the 1989-97 Ford Thunderbird never had airbags until 1994 they was both planned by the 1990 model year to have them equipped in the MN12 Pl
24 years later and cars in India don't even pass crash tests thanks to the ancient motor vehicles act which doesn't require it.
+Clayton Mascarenhas Drivers in India tend to drive a lot slower due to the nature of the roads anyway. There are bigger issues with road safety generally than worrying about crash tests. Though I'm sure that will come.
Here back in the UK we grew up without safety belts being compulsory. I'm not against safety - I wear a seatbelt and happy to have an airbag....but media will ram something down your throat and people will start repeating it......like...oh my God....this car doesn't have an airbag....we're all gonna die! People drove before without worrying about these things.
Yes, and they also tended to die more often in accidents.
So?
U dont even av toilets
most indian cars dont achieve the necessary speeds to activate the airbags anyway in a crash :D
"But how effective is this soft steering wheel ?
* close the door *
Let's fooking crach !"
The Chevrolet Impala from 1973 was the first the car to feature airbags :)
+fontheking5 There was a B&W video on here from 1960, of a car with very violent dual airbags. Wasn't a production system though.
+fontheking5 I keep seeing people patting American car maker's on the back for being first on this . Yes, Chevrolet did have a small fleet of Impala's in the early 70's that were driver's side airbag equipped . As the video points out though, the reality is our car companies fought putting in airbags tooth and nail . In fact Chevrolet abandoned the airbag idea after 1973 citing lack of customer interest . It wasn't until our government (and the Canadian government) slipped a revision in requiring airbags that they became widely used . In fact, (as was again noted in the video) Chrysler was the very first to equip all of their cars with a driver's side air bag as standard in 1989 (They did so voluntarily, but used it as a marketing tool) The fact is that until the late 1980's, American car makers only did what they had to do in order to meet the current government safety standards, and fought tougher and better standards with all the lobbyists they could afford . In the late 80's, safety became fashionable and a selling point . It was then we started seeing manufacturers go above and beyond government standards for safety . (A trend that still continues)
No... '69 Olds Toronado was first.
That was just fleet vehicles for government use, though. First domestic market car to feature them as standard was the Olds Toronado from '74 to '76.
In 1974 Cadillac was the first car maker to offer an airbag as an option you could choose between seatbelts or an airbag
If car manufacturers no longer saw safety as an optional extra, why did Lee Iacocca still have a job in the motor industry in the 1990s?
@STEFAZON500 It was actually 2 airbags, it was 1972, it was Oldsmobile, Buick, and Cadillac, and it wasn't either or, you could get the airbags fitted as an option, not instead of seat belts.
Airbags are a good thing because they prevent serious facial injuries and head injuries which would be present if not fitted to car steering wheels.
Airbags are essential and reduce serious injuries to face chest and head
They ARE required, except with special permission for low-volume independently manufactured cars (i.e Noble, Morgan which sell under X amount of cars a year) and for commercial vehicles (which is what the Defender is classified as.)
You…do realize that that video was older, or? I never thought that something like this ever needed mentioning…
£1400 for an airbag where nowadays you get at least 6 as standard
To be fair, Mercedes Benz would charge that much for anything.
That why manufacturers cover themselves by calling airbag systems as a Secondary system. Nothing secondary can work without the Primary seatbelt.
Certainly true. I was puzzled last year by a 1995-96 Renault Safrane crash test (watch?v=K6tsgzFvVI0) with child occupants(dummies), that showed the airbag to be much smaller than the ones I've seen in other '90s crash tests from the US. The Safrane passenger airbag looked like US driver airbags.
I have little faith in the experience of most.I like that my car doesn't have them but I'm happy most cars do.
@FHCTech Not all cars have it labeled as "SRS", some cars they were called "SIR" "Supplemental Inflatable Resistant", some cars it's simply "AIRBAG", and a few aren't labeled at all. However you are VERY right in saying not wearing a belt, even with an airbag, is worse. It's basically pointless to have an airbag with no seat belt. That same airbag that can save your life if you're wearing a belt at 50mph, is almost completely useless without the belt at as little as 20mph.
I'm pretty sure in the US, Chrysler was the first to offer a driver airbag in their cars. I had a 1989 Lebaron convertible, as shown in this video. It had an airbag. All Chryslers were airbag equipped by 1990. Ford and GM didn't offer airbags in all of their car models until 1995, when the government required them. European luxury cars had airbags as far back as the early 1980's. I think that was Mercedes.
If I must correct myself, the Audi V8 received a standard passenger airbag in 1991 as part of its mid-cycle facelift. The car in the shots at the right with the larger airbag is the Lincoln Continental, the first American car to have a passenger side airbag (after W126 in early 1988) in August 1988. Stupid presenter forgets that the steering wheel is NOT on the right in US cars, so clearly that's a rare for 1991 passenger airbag. Obviously a circular Euro driver's airbag will be smaller than that of a larger U.S. passenger airbag.
Honda/Acura, Audi, BMW, Porsche, and MB were the only ones to offer dual airbags in 1991. The W126 S-Class offered a driver's airbag since 1981 and since February 1988 for the passenger. BMW offered a passenger airbag on the E32 7-Series from January 1990, Honda on the Legend from October 1990, and Audi from 1991 (replaced Proc-ten). Volvo offered the first side impact airbag in 1994 and BMW in 1997 for head protection with HPS.
Are Airbags even required in the UK today? I know Noble makes cars with out airbags or anti-lock brakes.
I'm very surprised that the ultimate Nanny State the UK was dragging their feet on this issue.
It's always Americans that term the U.K. A nanny state, actually France, Scandinavia & Germany etc have far more intervention of the state into private & business lives. The British tend to end up with a weird combination of American business practices imported through takeovers & mergers fuelled by a mistaken belief that common language is common culture & EU legislation from the other direction. In the car industry sector we were behind on safety in the 1990s but fast forward ten years & the situation was changing rapidly.
Too bad the Rover 100 was a terrible car in crash tests.
Not the first time cars had airbags though. In the late 70's some chevys had them.
Honda/Acura was the first Japanese automaker to offer standard dual airbags in 1990 with the Legend alongside Porsche, Mercedes-Benz, and Ford Motor Co. Shocking that not even BMW nor Jaguar did so until later in 1992 and 1993. Lexus and Audi also waited until 1992. The clip at 2:55 is misleading, as that's clearly a MY1992 Ford Taurus passenger airbag, not a driver's one.
I'm glad that America is ahead of the world in one way, safety regulations
Behaviors should be modified according to the vehicle in use. In an ABS equipped car, best practice for a safe panic stop is to jam on the brake, while in non-ABS equipped cars, it's encouraged to "pump" the brakes. Braking incorrectly for the vehicle would result in longer stopping distances or a loss of control. I'd sooner everyone learns "stamp the brakes and hold them down" and have most cars fitted with ABS then see the results of confusion from some with and some without.
nubetre Fortunately, most cars on the road now have ABS. Many younger drivers learned to drive on ABS. I was born in 1992 and have had 6 airbags, ABS and ESC from the day I got my first car. (I’m in the USA. 2008 Honda Accord sedan.)
February 4, 2018 4:34 am
I had dodgy abs hence why I crashed earlier this year. Got it sorted as it was a low impact crash.
thank you
How come only Honda as a Japanese manufacturer had airbags back then? They must've been like the Japanese Volvo.
accidents get their name from the fact that they are accidents!
Cruise control? How'd that get in there? Cruise control isn't a safety feature and has been around since the 1950's I believe.
loling soo much in 2018
Especially off-road
ABS is an option I believe.
attitudes change!
3:26 I think that guy should try decaf coffee
hate to burst yall bubble but gm pioneered air bags in their 1974 caddies and buicks....problem then, no customers dont just take my word for it...
That is why the Defender is Illegal in the US. They are not allowed to sell or import them.
It's stupider than that. Gray market imports (i.e. vehicles imported by private citizens) were becoming a big deal in the '70s and '80s as a way to get better optioned cars and perhaps save some money (more on that in a moment.) Manufacturers didn't like this because they were paying to federalize their cars and import them only for private individuals to import the ones they sold overseas. Dealers REALLY didn't like this because it jeopardized the stranglehold they had on the new car market, in part because (in many cases) the privately imported vehicles were cheaper. So the manufacturers and dealer associations gave the federal government a lot of money and the government in turn forbade anyone from privately importing vehicles that didn't comply with US safety and emissions standards unless they were 25 years old or older.
Europe were dragging their feet? It wasn't until 1993 that Australia built a car with an airbag, and even then, they weren't fitted as standard in the Holden VR Commodore, infact, Holden didn't fit their cars with them as standard equipment until 1997, where as the Ford EF Falcon of 1994 (American company, Australian built and designed car) offered airbags as standard across the entire range. America would have to be the leading the country in terms of vehicle safety.. (well, at least they used to be).
I'd say Germany and Sweden were the large ones in the safety department. After all, it was Mercedes-Benz who invented the airbag, crumple zones, ESP, and much more. Saab and Volvo (together with Mercedes research) also invented the three point seat belt.
JackpodyDK Actually AMC ( American Motors Corporation ) was first with cruise control in 1965, and the 1973 Chevrolet Impala was the first car with airbag :)Volvo invented the 3 point seatbelt and launched it in 1959, they did patent it, but let everyone use it for free :)
I never mentioned cruise control, the airbag IS a Mercedes-Benz invention, they had the patents done in 1969 and were experimenting with it way before. Chevrolet Impala may have been the first to market it, that's a completely different thing than making it. The fact Chevrolet used 3 years on it and Mercedes used 16 also shows which manufacturer did it properly. Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbag
Volvo invented the three point seat belt together with Saab and research done by Mercedes. The first car to use it was a Volvo, but nonetheless, the three manufacturers helped each other to get the idea on the road.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seat_belt
+JackpodyDK Mercedes had the first SRS aribag. GM had the first airbags though, they called it Air Cushion Restraint. It replaced the shoulder belt.
Michka1001 cheese
It should be. My dad has told me that expearence will trump the electonics.
@Danaceb its has been for a while in canada and america
I've been in crashes with cars with and without airbags (wearing seat belts in both) now I've never been in a high speed crash but from my experience in low speed around 40 mph I got hurt a hell of a lot more in the car with the airbag then without i'm sure if it was faster the table would have been turned but don't understand why such things need to be mandatory when over half are recalled because they could turn out to be shrapnel grenades upon impact but nonetheless I understand there is safety benefits in certain situations
Matthew Simmons no I disagree, if you cracked your head on a car's steering wheel you'd end up a lot worse....
Airbags are saved when you had a car accident!
0:27 Honda Legend Coupe
In 1993, The Taurus (and maybe Crown Vic?) was the ONLY Ford with dual airbags.
Not true, the Aspire and Mustang had them by December 1993.
harmless nitrogen?? no gunpowder!!
Risk perception destroyed any benefit.
So now that we have airbags everyone feels like they can drive along an inch away from each others bumpers with complete impunity. So I propose a new law for tailgaters, where there vehicle has its airbags removed. -Moron- Problem Solved.
ITS CALLED AIRBAGS NOT ARIBAGS
Mercedes S Class was the first car with airbags, cruise control and ABS.
2018 we still use the same shit.
People still die in crashes
Hilarious....
just don't crash in the first place !
geforce5700fx but what if someone hits you? Drink drivers are everywhere...
You are right, but having ABS doesn't mean you don't practice good driving habits.
@arospeed169 No, because Americans didn't wear their seatbelts as much, and a bigger airbag stops you better if you're not wearing a belt.
safe but dull :)
we do wear our seatbelts a lot, we Americans are famous for being cautious
Right.
4:36.......currently looking for victims created by the inability of the industry to actively progress by benefitting the buyer.
Of course the dead people will not be able to offer their opinion.
If only air bags were still optional we wouldn't have to have those horrible over-sized ugly steering wheels to accommodate them! Personal safety is supposed to be a personal choice!
My thoughts exactly. These governments and corporations don't really give a rats ass about us. And all these squeamish busy bodies that push for all these regulations and safety features in these cars only make them more expensive, harder to repair...and just plain ugly. We had to write off one of our perfectly good cars because a stupid turn signal didn't work and we couldn't find a replacement. A perfectly good car. Scrapped because a light wasn't working. Christ that's none of the governments, or the safety freaks damn business...
They should make cars more crash resistant before tossing in airbags. Look at all the supposedly "safe" cars with airbags that crumple like paper in a crash. In that case airbags do more harm.
nigahiga6400 crumple is actually good, crumpling means energy absorption
To be honest, I don't want airbags. They're extremely heavy and make the steering wheel ugly. In my Mercedes, thanks to big brother legislation, I don't have a glovebox because Mercedes were forced to fill it with a big airbag that more than 80% of the time would activate to protect an empty passenger seat. The laws are just stupid; if I don't want airbags, I shouldn't have to have them. Same thing for those annoying seatbelt. If people want airbags, fine but don't make me use them.
+Axel Trainwagon If you take them out and get into any sort of crash, at least we won't have to listen to you whine..
+Bigbooster126 Clearly because you feel one way about airbags, that must be the only logical opinion. Right? I'm so sorry I dared to stray from your views. How about you fuck off?
if there was a cliff and you just jumped off because of your opinion. i would still see you as an idiot. it would be my opinion that you shouldn't jump, but if you want to go ahead... your funeral. now replace the cliff with a deathtrap car
+Axel Trainwagon My modern Skoda (US VW/ Audi) has 2 gloveboxes and the airbag deploy's from a panel above same. I understand your frustration regarding the stupidity of Mercedes design, It does not have to be that way, I have been driving cars with air bags since 2000's and seat belts since the 70's, never needed them as I have not crashed, including rally competitions. I also ride motorcycles and always wear a helmet, gloves & armoured clothing, not because i'm gonna fall off my bike, but like driving it's possible some idiot will crash into me.
Axel Trainwagon h
fuck airbags. wear your seatbelt and dont crash
I would like the optional airbag back. They brain wash people with these airbags. If your wearing your seatbelt correctly and tightly you'll be fine in a crash I guarantee it. Happened to my uncle at 40mph had no airbags and was just fine. And I was in the car as well.
You wouldn't be saying that if your head chest and face hit the steering wheel in a frontal impact
i dont fucken want any airbags or abs