First driver side airbag

 · Jeep Grand Cherokee, first SUV to have driver-side airbags as standard. Toyota Avensis, the first car with nine airbags to be sold in Europe. Posts, most cars in the western and European markets came with airbags as at least an www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 12 mins.  · German inventor Walter Linderer also received a patent in for an "inflatable cushion" to protect drivers in accidents. Their early airbag designs inspired others in the automotive industry to Estimated Reading Time: 4 mins. Meanwhile, in , Chrysler became the first automaker in the US to offer airbag restraint systems as standard equipment, and later on, became the first American auto manufacturer to install driver-side air bags in all its automobiles built in the US. In , all versions of the Estimated Reading Time: 9 mins.

first crash tests were conducted in While those. early tests were done in pursuit of the same goal of • Driver and passenger airbags • Side airbag. Because of the small space between an occupant and the side of the vehicle, side airbags must deploy very quickly, typically within the first milliseconds of a side crash. Deployment thresholds can be as low as 8 mph for narrow object crashes (e.g., trees and poles) and 18 mph for the more widely distributed side impacts (vehicle-to-vehicle crashes). In , Chrysler became the first United States automaker to fit a driver-side airbag as standard equipment, which was offered in six different models. The following year, Chrysler became the first US auto manufacturer to offer driver-side airbags in all its new passenger models.

The first airbag systems were installed in top-of-the-range vehicles in the The end of the s saw the introduction of the front passenger airbag. 40 years ago, back in , a limited number of S-Class Sedans ( model series) were the first cars to be delivered with this new technology. On September 1, , the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of finally goes into effect. The law required that all cars and light trucks.