Re: At what speed do airbags go off in an accident?

"Daryl Walford" <dwalford@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> zonie wrote:
>> Toby, After what you said about yanks having a tendency to not use
their
>> seat-belts I decided to look on my daily travels. I drive around all
day
>> on light deliveries. After driving all day and looking at every car I
>> could when I thought of it I did see 4 motorist without belts. I
would'nt
>> say that is such a huge amount to say that yanks have the propensity to
>> not wear belts. I know you like pick on yanks when you can, but thought
>> you would like the correct info.   Scott
>
> Has the rate of seatbelt use changed recently?
> One of the reasons many people in Australia think seatbelt use isn't as 
> common in the US is because of the way air bags are set to deploy 
> differently in each place, AFAIK airbags go off much earlier in US cars 
> which we have always assumed was due to more people not wearing belts, I

> can't think of any other reason for airbags in the US being deployed a
lot 
> earlier than here.
>

They're not just going off earlier, they are designed to stay inflated 
longer as well.