Ever Wondered how airbags work?
Ever Wondered how airbags work? No one would ever want anything to blow up in their face under any circumstance, but the one time an explosion might actually save your life is the blowing up of the airbags during an accident. Forty milliseconds is all it takes for the airbag to be fully blown from the first impact. Airbags are a very major safety component of vehicles but still hasn't become part of standard equipment in all cars yet. But have you ever wondered how airbags work? When a vehicle crashes the people occupying the front seats face around 30 G's of force at a speed of around 50Kmph. During the event of a crash, the vehicle decelerates almost immediately upon impact but the passengers inside do not decelerate at the same rate due to the change in momentum. It is similar to the case of getting out of a moving bus, where the person will tend to move forward in the direction of the motion due to the inertia of motion. So at the point of impact, the people inside will mo
