It's wild that "makes driving drunk safer" and "you don't need those pesky seatbelts wrunkling up your clothes" was how they sold people on airbags in the 70s.
@@monad_tcp people aren’t afraid of communism thanks to public schooling. Public schools have been under control of the same politicians that push for communism in the states.
@@monad_tcp because a lot of people have realized that the US (and some other countries) is actually run by billionaires and companies. They realize that their lives and everyone's lives around them are made miserable thanks to 10 super rich fucks. At some point anything is better than the current situation. Question is are we there yet?
I work at an automotive company that also produces airbag ECUs (control units) and its beyond fascinating how many people are involved in such seemingly small device. Security, Safety, Detonation Algorithms, all that needs great minds working together
@@OjStudios ECU stands for "electronic control unit" not for "engine control unit". Correct use would be Engine ECU, Airbag ECU, etc. The ACU stands in for a vehicle's architectural abstraction of a system into a "module", that is the encapsulation of inputs and outputs with their associated ECU. In this case the MEMS and pirotehnic capsule and electric parts, that together control the mechanical part itself - the airbag. Or, in short an ACU = ECU + MEMS + PYRO + CIRCUIT(CAN bus, signal lines, etc).
@@marian-gabriel9518 Thanks for the long explanation, that's what I'm here for. I never even knew there are more that one ECU's in a car because we've always talked about it as "engine control unit" on older cars where there's not that much happening besides air/fuel mixture, timing, sensing from lambdas and whatnot controls.
Very well explained . I spent ten years working in the airbag gas generator industry, focusing on quality and functional testing. For driver and passenger frontal airbags, the generators contain two pyrotechnic charges of different sizes that can be triggered with a delay determined by the calculator, depending on the speed of the impact and deceleration to modulate the deployment speed of the airbag so that it is fully deployed by the time the person makes contact. A few milliseconds of advance or delay are sufficient to avoid suboptimal functioning that could lead to inadequate protection or worsened injuries. For side airbags and curtains, the generators are hybrid. They function with both a pyrotechnic charge and a neutral gas under pressure, or nitrous oxide, to provide a colder gas.
It seems like there are a lot of airbag related recalls. Is it usually due to the pyrotechnic charge, or the control system that "ignites" said charges?
Thanks for the insightful comment. The fact that I did not encounter any mention of hybrid inflation systems during my research and interviews of several industry insiders really highlights how guarded airbag related IP is.
@@NewMind Hybrid gas generators are primarily used to protect against side impacts. This allows for smaller airbag modules that can easily be mounted in seat backs and interior pillars for curtains. Production began in the late 1990s. Each company guards its trade secrets closely while scouring automotive parts dealers and junkyards to recover airbag modules from competitors to see where they stand. This is also to avoid developing products that are too similar and could infringe on competitors' intellectual property.
so the space-X ( pre-1970 mopar as well ) mindset of using compressed N or CO2 aka scuba-tank so 2k-9k psi-storage ( and or pyrotechnics gas refill the main tank's aka not the main PSI way of filling the tank as a engine/electric-compressor ) work as the video says that it failed to work but you and other knowledge/print-reading/ect before watching the video said it almost was chosen as the default design/way of powering deployment and elon/others said that pyrotechnics aren't as reliable as CO2 or heavy spring design's ect
@@ludovicbon5903 sounds expensive to buy the junkyard airbags back and futile endeavour. what does corporate do with the parts? what if the mom&pop ( or bigger size company's or personal car's that get wrecked/not sold aka iv had parts car's and flipper and sold parts to buddies ect ) junkyard doesn't want to sell to corporation/manufacturing-headquarters and rather selling to down the street body shops/end-users?
My car was one of the vehicles recalled due to it containing the Takata ammonium nitrate inflators. Hearing about how they wanted to limit the recall to the humid areas of the US was ridiculous as driving into those areas from other areas of the US was a very reasonable proposition.
My mom bought a CRV in AZ, moved to OR a few years later. Her CRV was not AWD or 4WD, apparently only cars sold in California and Arizona come with the "desert package" and are the only states to not sell AWD CRV's, she was pretty upset when she realized.
My wife and 2nd eldest son (then 20yo) were in a head on crash at 80km/h ... in a Suzuki Swift with 7 airbags. They survived whilst both being hospitalised and suffering life altering mental trauma. The passenger in the other car lost a leg. The driver in the other car was rightly jailed for drug-driving and speeding. I cannot stress how important airbags are for survivability in a car collision. If she'd swerved left, my son would have died, if she'd swerved right she'd be dead. The best advertisement for a modern car with lots of airbags. $0.02
So true. Sad to read that your family experienced such a crash but, as you explained, the airbags saved your lives. I had to buy a new used car two years ago and one of the biggest factors I took into account was the airbags. I know people that worry a lot about what they eat and nothing about their car (I friend of mine just eats organic but drives a really old and shitty car with the wheels almost flat because she never cares about tire pressure). Eating healthy doesn’t saves you from a drunk driver
I would rather die immediately upon impact than suffer life altering injuries. Thus I delete any installed airbags from my 30+ year old cars and drive accordingly to minimize risk. $0.02
@@winguard96 well you are an idiot, and obviously don't have anyone that care for you. So you are the reason that us regular folks with loved ones opt for airbags. $0.02
I’d love to hear more about how you do your research. The story is always so in depth but remains cohesive. It’s not the kind of stuff you can pull right off Wikipedia.
Good old fashioned research- Predominantly research papers, print and interviews. Wikipedia has its place, and it does line up sometimes with the research but often the info on Wikipedia is incorrect or misleading. I do appreciate you taking notice of the effort. Nowadays everyone just assumes anything presented in this format is just “reading Wikipedia”; lol and now chatgpt.
My dad works as a quality manager for different car manufacturers and often brought home pieces of dashboards or trims home to think about making them better suited for crashes. He had harddrives over harddrives full of crash test footage we watched together. Now he works for Samsungs battery department.
Airbags helped me walk away from a crash into the side of a bus at 45mph that illegally turned left in front of me. I had my seatbelt on too. Wear yours! They work with the airbags. People were shocked to see that I was still even alive after seeing the car. Thank you Honda engineers 🙌
For sure. Today's automobiles are superior to vehicles of even 10 yrs ago, in terms of occupant safety. Back in July 2017 I owned a 2013 Ford Focus, driving down a back road at about 60 mph when I T boned a 2001 Dodge Caravan driven by a 78 yr old woman who ran a stop sign. I suffered a bunch of sprains and some torn ligaments requiring several visits to the chiropractor over a period of months, but no broken bones or permanent injuries. Sadly the minivan driver was pronounced dead at the scene after flipping down a deep ditch and striking a cement culvert
There is also a ballistically controlled set of roll bars on some convertibles that are out of sight, and only engage in rise, when a rollover is computed; however, going over speed bumps too quickly can cause them to go off. Lol. I also noticed on my 2003 BMW that the main positive battery cable has a device on it where when it senses a collision it burns the positive battery cable into so that a fire cannot be started by electricity since fuel and other flammables can be released during collisions
Thats a really smart idea, i think burning wires or a battery disconnection should a mandatory thing. I also thought of metal angled parts that could be added to the door frames so when a car crumples the doors might have a better chance of pushing outward to help keep the doors from getting stuck to prevent entrapment, i really feel like car designers should also think about entrapment prevention more as well.
@@arandomhobbychannel6718 It's safer for the doors to stay closed, and help to keep the passengers in place until they're rescued... unless the car is on fire.
According to my calculations, With my car crash in 2014 I would’ve experienced 306,204lbf of force. So yeah, That hurt like a buttcheek on a stick No seat belt, 68mph into a retainingwall/embankment, 260lbs 68 is a conservative estimate, the detective said it could’ve been around 68-75mph I drove 5 hours alone, at night, exhausted and sunburned and fell asleep with my foot on the accelerator, I wasn’t wearing my seat belt because I was absolutely blistered with sunburn after a weekend of boating, paddleboarding and jetskiing with my [at the time] girlfriend and her family I am eternally grateful to the Paramedics, FD and surgical team because I died several times that night and they managed to keep me alive.
Watching this had me keep coming back to the thought that this thing saved my life. All that concerted effort over years is why i can still get to work, come home and see my family. Surreal.
I swear to God, this is the most in depth yet accessible channel on science and technology in TH-cam ! The astounding amount of research that goes behind each video, I just salute you.
This is the pinnacle of R&D in my opinion. Sophisticated technology that exists solely to protect human life and the advancements in it go sadly unnoticed. I currently study computer science and I never would have thought of that there would be ay technological sophistication an an airbag but I am happily proven wrong
Thank You for mentioning Takata scandalous solution. They had many criminal-like decisions made with Honda and i love when general public knows this brand for it. In Poland many people actually interpret big, everlasting and convenient Honda recall as something marvelous, lol
Kids, never ever put your legs on the dashboard. And parents, never ever let your passengers do such thing. Airbags, though look like it, are not some soft balloons. They explode, and I repeat they EXPLODE. Reaching their max volume in 5x faster than than our blink. If you put legs on the dash and airbags trigger, It will break your legs off and your'll be impaled by your own thighs.
Since everyone is sharing a story.... When I was 15, me and mum who was driving got into a crash on an empty highway at ~110 km/h in Croatia. We were in circa 1985 Opel Corsa. According to the cops we flipped 4 to 5 times. I got 4 scratches about 1-2 mm long from all the tempered glass side windows shattering. Mum hit her head on the roof and had slight bleeding from glass getting between the roof and her head and also she broke her window with an elbow so there was some damage from that. That's it. Yep, there were no airbags, but everyone was telling a story and I don't have one with airbags :D
The rolling part is what's important here, I would guess. Counterintuitively, cars rolling - assuming the roof is sufficiently strong so as to not collapse on the passengers - is actually often helpful in preventing serious injury, as the car's velocity is bled off over a large distance, instead of a much more sudden stop. It's facetious to say, but it's not the fall that kills you, but the sudden stop at the end. Had you _not_ rolled, my guess is you'd not be alive today.
FYI seatbelts are also a passive safety system. Passive safety systems are there to protect you in the event of a crash: airbags, seat belts etc. Active systems are there to prevent a crash in the first place: brake assist, stability control, windscreen wipers etc
Lol seatbelts are real passive when you don't put them on, lmao. You have to actively put it on whereas the airbag passively does its thing no matter what you do or don't do.
@@Sb129 most airbags won’t go off without a seatbelt being worn so by your take airbags are active safety. Seatbelts are passive because they don’t actively function till the tensioners are pulled fast enough. That’s why insurers and regulators very explicitly call them passive safety and use the word active for things that avoid crashes like ASR, lane warnings, tiredness sensors etc.
This reminds me of Neil DeGrasse Tyson's advice on how to get riders to wear helmets, ask them to sprint as fast as possible into a wall with no protection, and tell them that pain corresponds to at most 15-20km/h.
several years ago my sister was involved in a car crash. a driver who didn't look before crossing crashed into the right side of her car, causing it to spin a few times. the car was a totalled but thankfully she did not suffer any life threatening injuries, only a concussion and a broken nose. the latter courtesy of the airbag, which sounds bad but it saved her from breaking her neck
It's INCREDIBLE how safe cars have become. A drunk driver here in Phoenix crossed the center line and hit a cop head-on a day or two ago...BOTH are supposed to be OK. Seriously incredible...
It's also infuriating to see the toll that improvement has taken on literally every other aspect of driving a car. The most enjoyable driving experience I have ever had was at the helm of a 1949 Hudson Commodore, second best a 1954 Plymouth Savoy, third best my 85 F150. None of these vehicles would do shit for me in a wreck(The F150 would, at least, retain my corpse within the cabin as it has 3-point seatbelts but let's not kid ourselves here that thing won't do anything to protect me in a wreck either), but they are orders of magnitude more pleasant to drive. Meanwhile, my 14 Challenger would do reasonably well in a crash BUT I FUCKING HATE THAT GOD DAMNED PIECE OF SHIT! I can't see out of it, I can't get comfortable in it, I feel like I'm in a goddamn sardine can because the dash, console, door cards all squeeze me so tight. The seat is horrid to sit in. I can lose a peterbilt behind the A-Pillars and the C-pillars render shoulder checks near pointless. My head hits the roof, I had to remove the headrests to be able to shoulder check without cold cocking myself...I could rant on for days about that car, but to keep it succinct, the only part about it I can not find fault in is the radio. If someone hadn't gotten it before I got the money raised I would have happily replaced the Challenger with that 54 Plymouth I drove. Not a moment's hesitation. And there is a 52 Chevy for sale in my area still......
@@TestECull Hahaha...yea man. For sure. But, to be fair, I was in an SN95 GT that I bought at auction (see the video series on my channel called "Auction Car Rehab" if you're into that sort of thing...which you sound like you are) when a dude in a Caddy trying to beat a yellow light, ending up basically hitting me head on. His car turned into a cannoli, my seatbelt barely even tried...the airbags had apparently been out to lunch. He didn't have a scratch on him, I ended up needing 8 staples in the top of my head and had a CRAZY concussion (or something?...weird shit happens when you hit your head...lol) for about a week where I had weird bruising at the back of my jaw bones, felt like I had a cold, couldn't remember shit...all kinds of weird shit. lol Cars ABSOLUTELY HAVE become the mechanical embodiment of helicopter parenting, but it's not all for naught. I work in IT security and it's similar...it's always a trade-off between privacy (visibility, comfort, cheap, simple) and functionality (728 airbags, pre-tensioning seatbelts, cars like the new Audis that can LITERALLY lean into an oncoming collision, etc). We can't really have it all. Unfortunately.
@@rmp5s I'm pretty familiar with the SN95 Mustang even though I nver owned one. My best bud in HS had a V6 5-speed SN95 and he beat the SHIT out of it. Totalled it twice, wrecked it 4-5 times, still managed to get it back on the road himself every single time. Go figure. For me the tradeoff just is not worth it. I'd rather drive the old iron instead. I love the sound of their engines, the 3-on-the-tree shifting, the 'this bench seat is more comfortable than the couch in your living room' seating, the roomy interiors, great visibility, plush ride....yeah itt'l kill me in a fender bender but I'm fine with that. And if I really wanted to be totally pointless they actually do make airbag retrofits for those old cars! Some are totally self contained modules bolted to the center of the steering wheel and are pure analog devices, others do have a rudimentary electronic trigger system like you saw in the early generations of factory airbags. Why you would fit them to these old cars is beyond me because there's no crumple zones, the steering columns just turn into spears in an impact, the doors pop open, the seats come out of the floor and fly around...I 'spose you're not supposed to install them standalone, but combine them with a modern collapsible steering column, partial roll cage, bucket seats padded dash, seatbelts, etc. May not bring a 54 Plymouth up to 2023 crash standards but it's certainly plausible for an enterprising gearhead to bring one at least up to the mid 90s. Got my eyes on a 1953 Ford Mainline Business Coupe and a 1941 Packard 8. Both are stunning cars, both contain things you don't see every day(Business Coupes don't exist, nor do straight 8s), both are in good shape, both are at or below 20 grand. The Ford has the advantage of better part support(The 8BA Flathead in it is still enjoying a thriving hotrod scene so I can buy pretty much any part for that engine except the block itself!), but the Packard enjoys 163hp, 0-60 of 13s and change, top speed of 107 which puts its straight line performance on par with a brand new $20,000 car. AKA itt'l be more comfortable on the interstate. Decisions decisions. Oh, and I'm also getting my F150 back on the road. Worn out engine is pulled, waiting on clutch kit, when that arrives I'll be stabbing a used-but-good engine down into it.
@@rmp5s As for watching auction car shenanigans...*sort of*. I do watch ERic's engine teardowns over at I Do Cars and I binge out on Junkyard Digs, Mortske, Puddin, coldwarmotors a lot, but I don't really pay much attention to auction cars because 99.999% of them are just gonna be the same modern plastic garbage I already have under me as it is. Part of why I like watching these channels is seeing old iron getting brought back to life again.
@@TestECull "I Do Cars" is great! That engine he did recently that was COMPLETELY destroyed was CRAZY!! Best of luck with the old rides, man! My newest car is a 2016 (an FBO GT-R that is a total ANIMAL...total opposite of your Packard. It'll run the quarter seconds faster than your 0-60 time. Hahaha) and I have 0 desire to get anything newer. There isn't much that's new that I really want...maybe a Cayman GT4...but, when I asked my Porsche dealer if there were any allocations left, his reply was hilarious: "No." That was it. Just "No." 🤣 Most cars have gotten so needlessly high-tech, though...it's like, do we REALLY NEED power door handles?...really? I just imagine the resale value of a 2020-ish car 10 or 20 years from now. Like, I wouldn't think twice about buying a 10-20 year old car now...hell, all my cars are around that age. But imagine buying a 2020 hybrid or EV in 2035...good luck! Oh well, I guess! I'm keeping my cars FOREVER!! lol
and we are in the second space race tho it might be slower and more expansive as it can be considered the "big dick" space race as it's millionaires investing in it, and also slightly appropriate with that One.
@@user2C47 not all projects are about efficiency tho, some are just about that _Big D*ck Energy_ Elon def on that one tho. (ain't too much of a fanboy, but damn if Starship ain't that impressive to my younger self... also Tintin)
Thanks mate, very cool video, as always! It's funny, I was just thinking about dimensional analysis the other day and I was wondering, since speed is distance over time and acceration is distance over time over time, then do people ever measure the next iteration in the progression? Namely, distance over time over time over time. Does this quantity have a name? Well now I know that it's called "jerk", at least in this context. Very gratifying! And the concise precision of your language is always a pleasure to absorb!
@@attilajuhasz2526 is it really? I can't tell if you're joking. Those terms together sound quite flippant but also plausible. Do you know what use people would have for this quantity of "snap"? Is it also used in engineering?
@@pstrap1311 yes, as flippant as it sounds, it actually is! When I found out, I was also suspicious. Snap is also known as jounce. It is the third derivative of position with respect to time, just as acceleration is the second (derivative of position with respect to time). Interestingly, the fourth and fifth derivatives are crackle and pop, respectively (named for the Kellogg's mascots, continuing the theme from Snap). Engineers having fun, I suppose.
Very good video, many people still think that older vehicles are safer, personally I will never understand it but maybe if they see this video they'll appreciate the thousands of hours people dedicated to safety have put into their car, and while I have never needed airbags I keep up on maintenance and check my systems for faults when I can, keep it up!
I rarely subscribe to content on TH-cam, but your videos are produced so well that I just had to. Hard to find decent content anymore it seems, so thank you.
So many people out there do not understand the level of complexity that is in the modern vehicle from the engine to the safety systems in place to keep your ass alive.
I was in a head on crash once… very scary, but i walked away without a scratch. I was surrounded by airbags. Had it not been for that, I’m positive i would have sustained injuries.
I can't believe New Mind only has 500,000 subscribers. If you enjoy and appreciate the obvious effort and dedication put into these videos, then I suggest liking and commenting on all videos you watch. This way, we can help the creator get much deserved exposure via the TH-cam Algorithm.
Deploy on open isn't the best idea for a few reasons, one of the biggest is sensors degrading. Cars live an awful life for a machine being exposed to frigid temps, high temps, and lots of salt. Airbag sensors can often times form corrosion on conductors over time which can break the circuit open eventually. Having an airbag deploy while driving is pretty likely to lead to an accident on its own, with the unfortunate side effect of no-longer having an airbag. I know this is an old comment, but I'm scrolling so maybe someone else will too.
What made me realize how insanely complicated airbags are when after i got in my first wreck it took me 2 hours to realize the entire side of my face had friction burn from the airbag the instant it opened. It was pretty jarring. Great video!
A look at the history of something we see as trivial nowadays like the car airbag really makes you appreciate just how much advancement it took to make it mundane.
"Gee" is not a force; it is an acceleration. Uppercase G is newton's gravitational constant [m3 kg−1 s−2.]. Earth's gravitational acceleration is denoted by lowercase g (preferably with a suffix of lowercase n --> g_n ) having dimensions [m s-2] In a superficial/shallow "popular science video", I wouldn't bother pointing this out; in a NewMind video, this ought to be guarded meticulously.
Haha, in an ideal world I wouldn’t dare insult my audiences’ intelligence this way, but unfortunately, there is a business aspect to this so I have to take a more cartoonish, sensationalized description of things for the first minute or so to ease in new viewers.
In the early 1970s Rocket Research in Redmond got a small contract for air bags. Dealing with Detroit was not like dealing with NASA. RR lost money. Years later airbags became popular, but RR never recovered any of the development money,.
I was in a head on collision a while ago, both going about 70 kmh at the time of impact. Ambulance staff said i was very lucky, and i get the same impression after this video. No injuries, just a very bruised chest and a very sore body.
Love the way everyone is continuously passing over the fact that car companies knew the leading cause of death in America was car accidents, and they STILL resisted the effort to make them safer. Kinda reminds me of how the tobacco industry knew cigarettes caused cancer and selling them anyway. Or video game companies deciding to hook kids on gambling mechanics because they knew they could. But of course, the common problems between these scenarios CAN NEVER BE CAPITALISM.
This is a school-book-example of why lobbying should be forbidden. The companies only interest is profit. Do you think the car industry would have integrated airbags without regulation...
BMW now has an airbag subscription service. Each bag has to be paid separately, and if the system is not updated via their WiFi service, the airbag won't work.
No, I don't think you can say that, although they perhaps are built in a way that resembles microscopic spring mechanisms. Modern accelerometers can measure positive or negative acceleration as a three-dimensional vector to multiple digits of precision, whereas the earlier mechanical sensors were more like "on" and "off" - that's the point of the whole segment where he talks about detection profiles, advanced algorithms and computing power; all stuff that is decidedly _not_ possible unless you have very accurate data on the (crashing) car's movement and acceleration/deceleration in 3d space.
I was visiting relatives in China and they were drunk and arguing with me about airbags. They tried to convince me they were silly. When I refused to agree they held me down and kicked my groin. They made sounds mimicking an air bag as they kicked me.
2:08 have to disagree here. an airbag is a passive safety system, yes. but so is a seatbelt. active safety tries to help prevent crashes. passive safety is trying to mitiigate/limit the damage.
Am I the only one who noticed the “ASSMAN” personalized plate at 10:07 ? It’s from a Seinfeld episode where Kramer gets the wrong plate which was supposed to go to a proctologist. Lol
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7:28 What kind of jet is that???
why would they disable airbags in some poo-lice cars?
It's wild that "makes driving drunk safer" and "you don't need those pesky seatbelts wrunkling up your clothes" was how they sold people on airbags in the 70s.
And when drinking and driving was made illegal the ppl called it communism. Seen an old news reel on it.
People were really dumb back then
@@monad_tcp what's to fear about communism? (Besides ineffective leadership and anarcho-capitalists actively sabotaging them.)
@@monad_tcp people aren’t afraid of communism thanks to public schooling. Public schools have been under control of the same politicians that push for communism in the states.
@@monad_tcp because a lot of people have realized that the US (and some other countries) is actually run by billionaires and companies. They realize that their lives and everyone's lives around them are made miserable thanks to 10 super rich fucks. At some point anything is better than the current situation. Question is are we there yet?
I work at an automotive company that also produces airbag ECUs (control units) and its beyond fascinating how many people are involved in such seemingly small device. Security, Safety, Detonation Algorithms, all that needs great minds working together
ACU = airbag control unit,
Airbag ECU = airbag engine control unit.. sooo? First is used in the video and second by you, which is it?
@@OjStudios Neither. Videos do not need airbags.
@@TimPerfetto ahhhh, this guy.
@@OjStudios ECU stands for "electronic control unit" not for "engine control unit". Correct use would be Engine ECU, Airbag ECU, etc. The ACU stands in for a vehicle's architectural abstraction of a system into a "module", that is the encapsulation of inputs and outputs with their associated ECU. In this case the MEMS and pirotehnic capsule and electric parts, that together control the mechanical part itself - the airbag. Or, in short an ACU = ECU + MEMS + PYRO + CIRCUIT(CAN bus, signal lines, etc).
@@marian-gabriel9518 Thanks for the long explanation, that's what I'm here for. I never even knew there are more that one ECU's in a car because we've always talked about it as "engine control unit" on older cars where there's not that much happening besides air/fuel mixture, timing, sensing from lambdas and whatnot controls.
The guy driving the Impala with the "assman" license plate is the real hero of the film
One in a million shot, doc!
I wonder what he's doing today.
Maybe some Nazi engineer 😅
It's from Seinfeld
Came here to say this lol
Very well explained . I spent ten years working in the airbag gas generator industry, focusing on quality and functional testing. For driver and passenger frontal airbags, the generators contain two pyrotechnic charges of different sizes that can be triggered with a delay determined by the calculator, depending on the speed of the impact and deceleration to modulate the deployment speed of the airbag so that it is fully deployed by the time the person makes contact. A few milliseconds of advance or delay are sufficient to avoid suboptimal functioning that could lead to inadequate protection or worsened injuries. For side airbags and curtains, the generators are hybrid. They function with both a pyrotechnic charge and a neutral gas under pressure, or nitrous oxide, to provide a colder gas.
It seems like there are a lot of airbag related recalls. Is it usually due to the pyrotechnic charge, or the control system that "ignites" said charges?
Thanks for the insightful comment. The fact that I did not encounter any mention of hybrid inflation systems during my research and interviews of several industry insiders really highlights how guarded airbag related IP is.
@@NewMind Hybrid gas generators are primarily used to protect against side impacts. This allows for smaller airbag modules that can easily be mounted in seat backs and interior pillars for curtains. Production began in the late 1990s. Each company guards its trade secrets closely while scouring automotive parts dealers and junkyards to recover airbag modules from competitors to see where they stand. This is also to avoid developing products that are too similar and could infringe on competitors' intellectual property.
so the space-X ( pre-1970 mopar as well ) mindset of using compressed N or CO2 aka scuba-tank so 2k-9k psi-storage ( and or pyrotechnics gas refill the main tank's aka not the main PSI way of filling the tank as a engine/electric-compressor ) work as the video says that it failed to work but you and other knowledge/print-reading/ect before watching the video said it almost was chosen as the default design/way of powering deployment and elon/others said that pyrotechnics aren't as reliable as CO2 or heavy spring design's ect
@@ludovicbon5903 sounds expensive to buy the junkyard airbags back and futile endeavour. what does corporate do with the parts? what if the mom&pop ( or bigger size company's or personal car's that get wrecked/not sold aka iv had parts car's and flipper and sold parts to buddies ect ) junkyard doesn't want to sell to corporation/manufacturing-headquarters and rather selling to down the street body shops/end-users?
The ad at 10:45 kills me: "Now it's completely safe to drive home from the bar in platform heel shoes!"
Unless it was built by takata... One practically decapitated a teenage student girl.
well its kinda true tho its just kills pedestian not the driver
It took me a moment before I noticed the heels in the advertising photograph!
That’s absolutely mind blowing
My car was one of the vehicles recalled due to it containing the Takata ammonium nitrate inflators. Hearing about how they wanted to limit the recall to the humid areas of the US was ridiculous as driving into those areas from other areas of the US was a very reasonable proposition.
Companies still do this today.
Yup. GM is famous for that as if a car is born in 1 place and never leaves there
My mom bought a CRV in AZ, moved to OR a few years later. Her CRV was not AWD or 4WD, apparently only cars sold in California and Arizona come with the "desert package" and are the only states to not sell AWD CRV's, she was pretty upset when she realized.
My wife and 2nd eldest son (then 20yo) were in a head on crash at 80km/h ... in a Suzuki Swift with 7 airbags. They survived whilst both being hospitalised and suffering life altering mental trauma. The passenger in the other car lost a leg. The driver in the other car was rightly jailed for drug-driving and speeding. I cannot stress how important airbags are for survivability in a car collision. If she'd swerved left, my son would have died, if she'd swerved right she'd be dead. The best advertisement for a modern car with lots of airbags. $0.02
Sorry to hear that. Hope you are all in a better place now.
So true. Sad to read that your family experienced such a crash but, as you explained, the airbags saved your lives. I had to buy a new used car two years ago and one of the biggest factors I took into account was the airbags. I know people that worry a lot about what they eat and nothing about their car (I friend of mine just eats organic but drives a really old and shitty car with the wheels almost flat because she never cares about tire pressure). Eating healthy doesn’t saves you from a drunk driver
I would rather die immediately upon impact than suffer life altering injuries. Thus I delete any installed airbags from my 30+ year old cars and drive accordingly to minimize risk. $0.02
@@winguard96 well you are an idiot, and obviously don't have anyone that care for you. So you are the reason that us regular folks with loved ones opt for airbags. $0.02
@@DaOneJoel lol
I’d love to hear more about how you do your research. The story is always so in depth but remains cohesive. It’s not the kind of stuff you can pull right off Wikipedia.
Good old fashioned research- Predominantly research papers, print and interviews. Wikipedia has its place, and it does line up sometimes with the research but often the info on Wikipedia is incorrect or misleading. I do appreciate you taking notice of the effort. Nowadays everyone just assumes anything presented in this format is just “reading Wikipedia”; lol and now chatgpt.
@@NewMind We all notice. Keep up the good work.
@@NewMind we do notice. Keep up the good work!
@@NewMind 7:28 What kind of jet is that???
@@NewMind We do notice. Keep up the good work?
My dad works as a quality manager for different car manufacturers and often brought home pieces of dashboards or trims home to think about making them better suited for crashes. He had harddrives over harddrives full of crash test footage we watched together. Now he works for Samsungs battery department.
nice to hear Samsung addressing Samsung Note battery problems. Can we count on deploying parachutes when flying with a Samsung Note soon?
Airbags helped me walk away from a crash into the side of a bus at 45mph that illegally turned left in front of me. I had my seatbelt on too. Wear yours! They work with the airbags. People were shocked to see that I was still even alive after seeing the car. Thank you Honda engineers 🙌
For sure. Today's automobiles are superior to vehicles of even 10 yrs ago, in terms of occupant safety. Back in July 2017 I owned a 2013 Ford Focus, driving down a back road at about 60 mph when I T boned a 2001 Dodge Caravan driven by a 78 yr old woman who ran a stop sign. I suffered a bunch of sprains and some torn ligaments requiring several visits to the chiropractor over a period of months, but no broken bones or permanent injuries. Sadly the minivan driver was pronounced dead at the scene after flipping down a deep ditch and striking a cement culvert
@@Sparky-ww5re78 years old
There is also a ballistically controlled set of roll bars on some convertibles that are out of sight, and only engage in rise, when a rollover is computed; however, going over speed bumps too quickly can cause them to go off. Lol.
I also noticed on my 2003 BMW that the main positive battery cable has a device on it where when it senses a collision it burns the positive battery cable into so that a fire cannot be started by electricity since fuel and other flammables can be released during collisions
Thats a really smart idea, i think burning wires or a battery disconnection should a mandatory thing. I also thought of metal angled parts that could be added to the door frames so when a car crumples the doors might have a better chance of pushing outward to help keep the doors from getting stuck to prevent entrapment, i really feel like car designers should also think about entrapment prevention more as well.
I’ve thought about this every time I see a convertible. That’s genius. I just if you’re tall and choose to buy a convertible you’ve made your choice.
@@arandomhobbychannel6718 It's safer for the doors to stay closed, and help to keep the passengers in place until they're rescued... unless the car is on fire.
"ballistically" - I don't think that word means what you think it means
What does it burn the cable into?
According to my calculations, With my car crash in 2014 I would’ve experienced 306,204lbf of force.
So yeah, That hurt like a buttcheek on a stick
No seat belt, 68mph into a retainingwall/embankment, 260lbs
68 is a conservative estimate, the detective said it could’ve been around 68-75mph
I drove 5 hours alone, at night, exhausted and sunburned and fell asleep with my foot on the accelerator, I wasn’t wearing my seat belt because I was absolutely blistered with sunburn after a weekend of boating, paddleboarding and jetskiing with my [at the time] girlfriend and her family
I am eternally grateful to the Paramedics, FD and surgical team because I died several times that night and they managed to keep me alive.
Wait, you can survive 100+km/h crash without seat belt and air bags.
I wouldn't try that a second time.
Watching this had me keep coming back to the thought that this thing saved my life. All that concerted effort over years is why i can still get to work, come home and see my family. Surreal.
"Collisions are now soft and fun for the whole family..." LMAO 10:35
Oml
I swear to God, this is the most in depth yet accessible channel on science and technology in TH-cam ! The astounding amount of research that goes behind each video, I just salute you.
This is the pinnacle of R&D in my opinion. Sophisticated technology that exists solely to protect human life and the advancements in it go sadly unnoticed. I currently study computer science and I never would have thought of that there would be ay technological sophistication an an airbag but I am happily proven wrong
10:04 that Seinfeld reference caught me off guard... well done
Thank You for mentioning Takata scandalous solution. They had many criminal-like decisions made with Honda and i love when general public knows this brand for it. In Poland many people actually interpret big, everlasting and convenient Honda recall as something marvelous, lol
Kids, never ever put your legs on the dashboard. And parents, never ever let your passengers do such thing. Airbags, though look like it, are not some soft balloons. They explode, and I repeat they EXPLODE. Reaching their max volume in 5x faster than than our blink. If you put legs on the dash and airbags trigger, It will break your legs off and your'll be impaled by your own thighs.
Since everyone is sharing a story....
When I was 15, me and mum who was driving got into a crash on an empty highway at ~110 km/h in Croatia. We were in circa 1985 Opel Corsa. According to the cops we flipped 4 to 5 times. I got 4 scratches about 1-2 mm long from all the tempered glass side windows shattering. Mum hit her head on the roof and had slight bleeding from glass getting between the roof and her head and also she broke her window with an elbow so there was some damage from that. That's it.
Yep, there were no airbags, but everyone was telling a story and I don't have one with airbags :D
The rolling part is what's important here, I would guess. Counterintuitively, cars rolling - assuming the roof is sufficiently strong so as to not collapse on the passengers - is actually often helpful in preventing serious injury, as the car's velocity is bled off over a large distance, instead of a much more sudden stop.
It's facetious to say, but it's not the fall that kills you, but the sudden stop at the end. Had you _not_ rolled, my guess is you'd not be alive today.
FYI seatbelts are also a passive safety system.
Passive safety systems are there to protect you in the event of a crash: airbags, seat belts etc.
Active systems are there to prevent a crash in the first place: brake assist, stability control, windscreen wipers etc
@@1Slamalama1it’s a relevant distinction since the video brought it up in the first place.
Lol seatbelts are real passive when you don't put them on, lmao. You have to actively put it on whereas the airbag passively does its thing no matter what you do or don't do.
@@Sb129 most airbags won’t go off without a seatbelt being worn so by your take airbags are active safety. Seatbelts are passive because they don’t actively function till the tensioners are pulled fast enough. That’s why insurers and regulators very explicitly call them passive safety and use the word active for things that avoid crashes like ASR, lane warnings, tiredness sensors etc.
@@Sb129 real active seat belt.
It automatically plucks you so hard and you can't press the accelerate pedal, so you can't possibly crash the car.
Pretty sure whatyou have called Passive should be called Post-Crash, and Pre-Crash for Active. Not so sure tho, so please CMIIW
Brilliant video. Do not forget to tell your travel companion to NOT put her/his leg above the glove compartment like in the 70s!
Also, especially in Australia, don't install after-market accessories like bullbars!
Kosmo Kramer's license plate at 10:07!
This reminds me of Neil DeGrasse Tyson's advice on how to get riders to wear helmets, ask them to sprint as fast as possible into a wall with no protection, and tell them that pain corresponds to at most 15-20km/h.
That hurt just reading it.
several years ago my sister was involved in a car crash. a driver who didn't look before crossing crashed into the right side of her car, causing it to spin a few times. the car was a totalled but thankfully she did not suffer any life threatening injuries, only a concussion and a broken nose. the latter courtesy of the airbag, which sounds bad but it saved her from breaking her neck
Lol, shoutout to ASSMAN 10:03
It's INCREDIBLE how safe cars have become. A drunk driver here in Phoenix crossed the center line and hit a cop head-on a day or two ago...BOTH are supposed to be OK. Seriously incredible...
It's also infuriating to see the toll that improvement has taken on literally every other aspect of driving a car. The most enjoyable driving experience I have ever had was at the helm of a 1949 Hudson Commodore, second best a 1954 Plymouth Savoy, third best my 85 F150. None of these vehicles would do shit for me in a wreck(The F150 would, at least, retain my corpse within the cabin as it has 3-point seatbelts but let's not kid ourselves here that thing won't do anything to protect me in a wreck either), but they are orders of magnitude more pleasant to drive.
Meanwhile, my 14 Challenger would do reasonably well in a crash BUT I FUCKING HATE THAT GOD DAMNED PIECE OF SHIT! I can't see out of it, I can't get comfortable in it, I feel like I'm in a goddamn sardine can because the dash, console, door cards all squeeze me so tight. The seat is horrid to sit in. I can lose a peterbilt behind the A-Pillars and the C-pillars render shoulder checks near pointless. My head hits the roof, I had to remove the headrests to be able to shoulder check without cold cocking myself...I could rant on for days about that car, but to keep it succinct, the only part about it I can not find fault in is the radio.
If someone hadn't gotten it before I got the money raised I would have happily replaced the Challenger with that 54 Plymouth I drove. Not a moment's hesitation. And there is a 52 Chevy for sale in my area still......
@@TestECull Hahaha...yea man. For sure.
But, to be fair, I was in an SN95 GT that I bought at auction (see the video series on my channel called "Auction Car Rehab" if you're into that sort of thing...which you sound like you are) when a dude in a Caddy trying to beat a yellow light, ending up basically hitting me head on. His car turned into a cannoli, my seatbelt barely even tried...the airbags had apparently been out to lunch. He didn't have a scratch on him, I ended up needing 8 staples in the top of my head and had a CRAZY concussion (or something?...weird shit happens when you hit your head...lol) for about a week where I had weird bruising at the back of my jaw bones, felt like I had a cold, couldn't remember shit...all kinds of weird shit. lol
Cars ABSOLUTELY HAVE become the mechanical embodiment of helicopter parenting, but it's not all for naught.
I work in IT security and it's similar...it's always a trade-off between privacy (visibility, comfort, cheap, simple) and functionality (728 airbags, pre-tensioning seatbelts, cars like the new Audis that can LITERALLY lean into an oncoming collision, etc). We can't really have it all. Unfortunately.
@@rmp5s I'm pretty familiar with the SN95 Mustang even though I nver owned one. My best bud in HS had a V6 5-speed SN95 and he beat the SHIT out of it. Totalled it twice, wrecked it 4-5 times, still managed to get it back on the road himself every single time. Go figure.
For me the tradeoff just is not worth it. I'd rather drive the old iron instead. I love the sound of their engines, the 3-on-the-tree shifting, the 'this bench seat is more comfortable than the couch in your living room' seating, the roomy interiors, great visibility, plush ride....yeah itt'l kill me in a fender bender but I'm fine with that.
And if I really wanted to be totally pointless they actually do make airbag retrofits for those old cars! Some are totally self contained modules bolted to the center of the steering wheel and are pure analog devices, others do have a rudimentary electronic trigger system like you saw in the early generations of factory airbags. Why you would fit them to these old cars is beyond me because there's no crumple zones, the steering columns just turn into spears in an impact, the doors pop open, the seats come out of the floor and fly around...I 'spose you're not supposed to install them standalone, but combine them with a modern collapsible steering column, partial roll cage, bucket seats padded dash, seatbelts, etc. May not bring a 54 Plymouth up to 2023 crash standards but it's certainly plausible for an enterprising gearhead to bring one at least up to the mid 90s.
Got my eyes on a 1953 Ford Mainline Business Coupe and a 1941 Packard 8. Both are stunning cars, both contain things you don't see every day(Business Coupes don't exist, nor do straight 8s), both are in good shape, both are at or below 20 grand. The Ford has the advantage of better part support(The 8BA Flathead in it is still enjoying a thriving hotrod scene so I can buy pretty much any part for that engine except the block itself!), but the Packard enjoys 163hp, 0-60 of 13s and change, top speed of 107 which puts its straight line performance on par with a brand new $20,000 car. AKA itt'l be more comfortable on the interstate.
Decisions decisions.
Oh, and I'm also getting my F150 back on the road. Worn out engine is pulled, waiting on clutch kit, when that arrives I'll be stabbing a used-but-good engine down into it.
@@rmp5s As for watching auction car shenanigans...*sort of*. I do watch ERic's engine teardowns over at I Do Cars and I binge out on Junkyard Digs, Mortske, Puddin, coldwarmotors a lot, but I don't really pay much attention to auction cars because 99.999% of them are just gonna be the same modern plastic garbage I already have under me as it is. Part of why I like watching these channels is seeing old iron getting brought back to life again.
@@TestECull "I Do Cars" is great! That engine he did recently that was COMPLETELY destroyed was CRAZY!!
Best of luck with the old rides, man! My newest car is a 2016 (an FBO GT-R that is a total ANIMAL...total opposite of your Packard. It'll run the quarter seconds faster than your 0-60 time. Hahaha) and I have 0 desire to get anything newer. There isn't much that's new that I really want...maybe a Cayman GT4...but, when I asked my Porsche dealer if there were any allocations left, his reply was hilarious: "No."
That was it. Just "No." 🤣
Most cars have gotten so needlessly high-tech, though...it's like, do we REALLY NEED power door handles?...really?
I just imagine the resale value of a 2020-ish car 10 or 20 years from now. Like, I wouldn't think twice about buying a 10-20 year old car now...hell, all my cars are around that age. But imagine buying a 2020 hybrid or EV in 2035...good luck!
Oh well, I guess! I'm keeping my cars FOREVER!! lol
It seems like by the time New Mind is done with us, we'll know how every component in a car works!
Space race was a revolution in development of various technologies that we use in our day to day life
and we are in the second space race tho it might be slower and more expansive as it can be considered the "big dick" space race as it's millionaires investing in it, and also slightly appropriate with that One.
Yup, and to this day experiments on the international space station also provide many new technologies for everyone.
@@PrograError The first race was a rush to get things _into_ space. The goal of the current one is to get things into space _efficiently._
@@user2C47 not all projects are about efficiency tho, some are just about that _Big D*ck Energy_
Elon def on that one tho. (ain't too much of a fanboy, but damn if Starship ain't that impressive to my younger self... also Tintin)
The impact shown in the opening is at a speed of 64 km/h each, not 24 km/h
5 years ago i have a very bad car crash with my 15 year old VW polo. The airbags did not open but the seat belt saved my life
One of the most underrated TH-camrs in my opinion. Keep it up, I love the content. Thanks for the entertainment
Thanks mate, very cool video, as always! It's funny, I was just thinking about dimensional analysis the other day and I was wondering, since speed is distance over time and acceration is distance over time over time, then do people ever measure the next iteration in the progression? Namely, distance over time over time over time. Does this quantity have a name? Well now I know that it's called "jerk", at least in this context. Very gratifying! And the concise precision of your language is always a pleasure to absorb!
I think it's called impultion
Edit: nvm, it's jerk
And the change in jerk over time is 'snap.'
@@attilajuhasz2526 is it really? I can't tell if you're joking. Those terms together sound quite flippant but also plausible. Do you know what use people would have for this quantity of "snap"? Is it also used in engineering?
@@pstrap1311 yes, as flippant as it sounds, it actually is! When I found out, I was also suspicious. Snap is also known as jounce. It is the third derivative of position with respect to time, just as acceleration is the second (derivative of position with respect to time).
Interestingly, the fourth and fifth derivatives are crackle and pop, respectively (named for the Kellogg's mascots, continuing the theme from Snap).
Engineers having fun, I suppose.
@@pstrap1311 railway design engineers, for example, use the term. They try to design curves in rail lines to avoid snap.
10:08 the license plate 😂
Very good video, many people still think that older vehicles are safer, personally I will never understand it but maybe if they see this video they'll appreciate the thousands of hours people dedicated to safety have put into their car, and while I have never needed airbags I keep up on maintenance and check my systems for faults when I can, keep it up!
11:44 waaait, did they actually have an advertisement where that guy took the place of a crash dummy?
12:43 Dummy reaches for the stick to downshift after the airbag has deployed!
10:06 interesting choice of a vanity license plate.
A man of culture 👏
I rarely subscribe to content on TH-cam, but your videos are produced so well that I just had to. Hard to find decent content anymore it seems, so thank you.
So many people out there do not understand the level of complexity that is in the modern vehicle from the engine to the safety systems in place to keep your ass alive.
Hahaha 10:06 🤣
Lmao that news article covering the ACRS in the impala "You can drive home drunk! No pesky safety belts!"
How are airbags expected to last “15 years,“ or “the lifetime of the vehicle” of sodium azide only has a shelf life of five years?
4:00 i know what car I will never get. That nissan folded like an omelette on the driver.
You do such outstanding work! I always come away with so much more appreciation of the world around me thanks the hard work you put in. Kudos!
I was in a head on crash once… very scary, but i walked away without a scratch. I was surrounded by airbags. Had it not been for that, I’m positive i would have sustained injuries.
I can't believe New Mind only has 500,000 subscribers. If you enjoy and appreciate the obvious effort and dedication put into these videos, then I suggest liking and commenting on all videos you watch. This way, we can help the creator get much deserved exposure via the TH-cam Algorithm.
Your video editing skills are legendary 🙌 There's so much to keep you engaged! Keep up the amazing content creation!
6:54 huh interesting see i would have thought of going with Piezoelectrics instead or maybe some sort of deploy on open circuit
piezoelectric would be too sensitive I think, and deploy on open would be too slow. just my opinion though
deploy on open circuit might be more likely to cause an accidental deployment, and that would be more dangerous than a failure to deploy.
Deploy on open isn't the best idea for a few reasons, one of the biggest is sensors degrading. Cars live an awful life for a machine being exposed to frigid temps, high temps, and lots of salt. Airbag sensors can often times form corrosion on conductors over time which can break the circuit open eventually. Having an airbag deploy while driving is pretty likely to lead to an accident on its own, with the unfortunate side effect of no-longer having an airbag. I know this is an old comment, but I'm scrolling so maybe someone else will too.
Without a doubt...airbags have saved countless lives...mine included
I used airbag and pretensioner in my Laguna II at like 100km/h, 10/10, really happy not to recommend C:
I rear ended full size bus in a tunnel and hit a tunnel wall, two hours later i was eating lunch back at work C:
Interesting license plate on the Impala there 🧐
Great video as always this is really cool
What made me realize how insanely complicated airbags are when after i got in my first wreck it took me 2 hours to realize the entire side of my face had friction burn from the airbag the instant it opened. It was pretty jarring. Great video!
At 3:25 it states the airbags are pyrotechnically deployed. Perhaps that is what burned you and not your face rubbing up on the airbag.
Wow! Eye opening content 👌👍
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"Gas Generator" 👌👌👌👌
A look at the history of something we see as trivial nowadays like the car airbag really makes you appreciate just how much advancement it took to make it mundane.
That tire at 12:30.. bowowowowow lol
10:05 That's a cool licence plate
10:04 was a bad moment to take a sip of water.
"Gee" is not a force; it is an acceleration. Uppercase G is newton's gravitational constant [m3 kg−1 s−2.]. Earth's gravitational acceleration is denoted by lowercase g (preferably with a suffix of lowercase n --> g_n ) having dimensions [m s-2]
In a superficial/shallow "popular science video", I wouldn't bother pointing this out; in a NewMind video, this ought to be guarded meticulously.
Haha, in an ideal world I wouldn’t dare insult my audiences’ intelligence this way, but unfortunately, there is a business aspect to this so I have to take a more cartoonish, sensationalized description of things for the first minute or so to ease in new viewers.
@@NewMind Too bad. Hope you change your mind on this topic.
i argue that the most complex system in the car is the driver as well as the single biggest point of failure.
Airbags + seatbelt saved my wife when an oncoming driver fell asleep…. It was a 55mph head-on, and aside from bruises she walked away… ❤❤
1:32 that is kinda cool how the emblem pops out n away.
Great video. Clear, entertaining and informative 🙂
15:36 This is insane.
Humans are awesome.
The “assman” license plate 😂😂 hard agree 👌🏻👌🏻
“ Brilliant “ video!
Excellent video 💯
Excellent video - taught me a great deal (and I thought I knew most of what there was to know about airbags!). Thank you.
The videos are just amazing!
Thank you sir
Without good government regulation, there would still be tons of new cars without basic safety devices like airbags.
Amazing.. as always
That Mercedes logo just popped
I’m not the Assman!
16:30 Just this january I brought my car in for the recall of the Takata problem.
4:00 I wonder how many people died or suffered horrific injuries in the Niissan Tsuru, look at how the passenger safety cell completely crushed
New York Assman. Such a classy license plate.
That was a 40 mph crash at the beginning, not 15 mph.
In the early 1970s Rocket Research in Redmond got a small contract for air bags. Dealing with Detroit was not like dealing with NASA. RR lost money. Years later airbags became popular, but RR never recovered any of the development money,.
I was in a head on collision a while ago, both going about 70 kmh at the time of impact. Ambulance staff said i was very lucky, and i get the same impression after this video. No injuries, just a very bruised chest and a very sore body.
this will blow you mind :)
Why is the power off on a crash test vehicles. No lights on the dash I could see. Surely all electronics should be on to check for fires etc. ?
Right....
Love the way everyone is continuously passing over the fact that car companies knew the leading cause of death in America was car accidents, and they STILL resisted the effort to make them safer. Kinda reminds me of how the tobacco industry knew cigarettes caused cancer and selling them anyway. Or video game companies deciding to hook kids on gambling mechanics because they knew they could. But of course, the common problems between these scenarios CAN NEVER BE CAPITALISM.
the single biggest improvement in car safety is self driving technology.
@@nickhowatson4745 I used to be really optimistic about self driving tech too but idk it’s been a year away for over a decade now I’ve kinda lost hope
@@Shlooomth its an inevitability.
This is a school-book-example of why lobbying should be forbidden. The companies only interest is profit. Do you think the car industry would have integrated airbags without regulation...
BMW now has an airbag subscription service.
Each bag has to be paid separately, and if the system is not updated via their WiFi service, the airbag won't work.
that just isnt true and wouldn't be legal for BMW to sell such a car within the USA.
@Nick Howatson r/whoosh 🤭
It is a fine example of Cunningham's Law- what can go wrong, will go wrong.
7:28 What kind of jet is that???
Are mems based sensors not just miniaturized versions of their larger original versions?
No, I don't think you can say that, although they perhaps are built in a way that resembles microscopic spring mechanisms.
Modern accelerometers can measure positive or negative acceleration as a three-dimensional vector to multiple digits of precision, whereas the earlier mechanical sensors were more like "on" and "off" - that's the point of the whole segment where he talks about detection profiles, advanced algorithms and computing power; all stuff that is decidedly _not_ possible unless you have very accurate data on the (crashing) car's movement and acceleration/deceleration in 3d space.
Oh my god 10:25 that man’s hair
I was visiting relatives in China and they were drunk and arguing with me about airbags. They tried to convince me they were silly. When I refused to agree they held me down and kicked my groin. They made sounds mimicking an air bag as they kicked me.
One word: wow
10:08 A distinguished car owner I do indeed suppose!
So we're just not gonna talk about the Impala's license plate?? Got it!
Maybe he’s a proctologist
2:08 have to disagree here. an airbag is a passive safety system, yes. but so is a seatbelt. active safety tries to help prevent crashes. passive safety is trying to mitiigate/limit the damage.
The active safety features and pilot assistance systems are way more complex than airbags.
Sources would be great
Am I the only one who noticed the “ASSMAN” personalized plate at 10:07 ? It’s from a Seinfeld episode where Kramer gets the wrong plate which was supposed to go to a proctologist. Lol
Mans has portal level music that’s so interesting while he’s speaking