airbags

Honda has just designed a safer front-passenger airbag

HONDA announced it has developed a new front-passenger airbag which can better protect occupants in a wide range of frontal collision scenarios, including angled crashes between vehicles, or a vehicle and another object. Honda said it plans…

A car safety breakthrough with bags of potential

It's innovations like this that will help semi-autonomous cars become a reality, especially on roads where the vast majority of vehicles are still being driven by people, not algorithms and sensor arrays.…

Why do PH cars have fewer safety features than ASEAN models?

At the 36th  Bangkok International Motor Show (BIMS) last month, I was impressed when I  read in the press kit of the new Ford Everest that it has seven airbags: “Front, side, curtain and knee airbags for…

Shrapnel-shooting airbags: Is there one in your car?

The automotive world is in turmoil over the massive airbag recall affecting more than 14 million vehicles worldwide from 11 automakers, with 11.6 million of these vehicles in the United States. The problem involves a faulty propellant…