Sentence examples for airbags from inspiring English sources

Play to the whistle! 3) Absolutely brilliant: it turns out horse riders now boast protective airbags.

The deaths of six people worldwide have been linked to metal shards being hurled from Takata's airbags when they inflate.South32, a company spun off by BHP Billiton to house some of its poorer-performing mining assets, such as aluminium, made a lacklustre debut on the Australian stockmarket (it did better in secondary listings in London and Johannesburg).

He is also rumoured to be interested in making a bid for Time Warner Cable, which recently saw its agreed takeover by Comcast fall apart over antitrust concerns.Takata, a Japanese company which makes spare parts for cars, doubled its recall in America of vehicles with its airbags installed to 34m, making it the biggest safety recall to date in the American car industry.

Although two mechanical causes (sticky accelerators and a problem with floor mats) had been identified, electromagnetic interference was ruled out.The data monitored by an EDR are stored only if the airbags go off.

THE number was small: just 500 of General Motors's latest full-size pickups (pictured) were being recalled on May 23rd because of a minor problem with airbags.

And on October 30th the NHTSA ordered Takata to provide documents and answer questions under oath related to its ongoing investigation into why the company's airbags were fitted to so many cars.

Previous rovers have deployed parachutes to slow their descents, and have then crashed into the ground using airbags to cushion their impacts.

Without that kind of technology, there would have been none of the dramatic improvements in cars' fuel economy over the past 20 years.Electronic devices also decide within microseconds of a crash how to inflate the airbags.

Unbeknown to drivers, systems built into cars already record, for instance, when and where airbags inflate; this information is used after a crash to find out exactly what happened.Some analysts say that within three years there will be telematics devices in two out of every three new vehicles in America, compared with only one in 20 in 2000.

Or imagine cars with better brakes that could take the place of airbags, or aero-engines whose increased reliability could be offset by less frequent maintenance, leaving airlines about as safe as they were in the 1950s.

Attitudes to safety in most developing countries are more casual than in the rich West, but China has been rigorously enforcing the wearing of seat belts, and consumers now expect at least a couple of airbags even in fairly basic vehicles.Seizing upCongestion is more intractable.