How do Airbags work?
Airbags are passive restraints which activate when a vehicle goes into an accident. Gone are the days when seat belts were considered a safety feature (if the person tied it up), airbags are the current trend in safety feature which gets activated automatically at the appropriate time when needed. All new vehicles in India are bound to have front airbags for the driver and passenger as mandatory feature, but many automotive giants have gone beyond this. Photo by Dietmar Janssen from Pexels How they work? An airbag system consists of a control module, multiple sensors and at least one airbag. The sensors are placed in the areas where the chances of impact are maximum and the control unit of airbag monitors the data from the accelerometers, wheel speed sensors and other sources. When condition of impact occurs, the control unit activates the airbags. The first law of motion comes into the action in this process as the person's body in the car moving i...