Sentence examples for passive restraints from inspiring English sources

Another line of engineering development has centred on passive restraints that do not require any action by the occupant.

State Farm and other insurers began offering discounts for passive restraints -- air bags and automatic seat belts, which were never popular -- in 1988, shortly after federal officials ordered that they be gradually installed in all vehicles.

Mr. Traffic polled the students on various subjects: Driver Attitude (Have you recently given another driver the finger?); Defensive Driving (Have you ever fallen asleep at the wheel? Do you carry a weapon in the car?); Passive Restraints (Do you regularly drive without a seat belt?).

Justice Breyer wrote the majority decision, which upheld a ruling last year by the federal appeals court here that a suit against Honda for failing to include an airbag in a 1987 Accord was pre-empted by the federal regulation in effect at that time that permitted a gradual phase-in of passive restraints.

Abduction was chosen as a basic motion of the arm, and the abbreviated throwing motion was chosen as a uniquely human motion (Roach et al. [2013]), where maximal external rotation removes laxity from passive restraints, thereby further increasing motion repeatability.

Since BAC testing began to be widely used in the late '70s, alcohol-related highway fatalities have indeed declined, but long before that — in the late '60s — all highway fatalities began declining, because of safer cars, passive restraints and better and divided highways.

As a result of its superficial position, the deltoid may have an important role as a passive restraint (Howell and Galinat [1988]).

Since deltoid muscle activity helps to stabilize the glenohumeral articulation, its role as a passive restraint has been attributed to the deltoid's ability to produce an abduction moment and stabilize the humeral head (Billuart et al. [2007]).

In this investigation, the removal of the deltoid resulted in significant effects on glenohumeral translation and the center of rotation and thus glenohumeral stability, affirming the importance of the deltoid as a passive restraint with its bulk effect.

A mechanical engineer by training, Bell started a company in 1967 that made auto parts and, later, sensors for air bags, which grew out of Washington's passive restraint mandates of the mid-1980s.

The FE models of a Ford F250 pickup truck and a Hybrid III 50th percentile crash test dummy were employed and a passive restraint system was developed in the FE model.