SUV airbag increases pedestrian protection

Upholstery Journal | February 2008

Passenger safety systems leader Autoliv unveiled a front module-integrated airbag designed to protect pedestrians in collisions involving sport utility vehicles, where the risk to pedestrians is 2.5 times greater than in collisions involving cars.

The airbag has a pre-crash sensor that triggers the airbag to deploy milliseconds before impact. Autoliv said that in tests the forces acting on the lower legs of a pedestrian test dummy at impact were reduced by 50 percent and on the head by 40 percent.

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