ADVANCE SAFETY MEASURES FOR FOUR-WHEELERS WITHOUT COMPREHENSIVE AWARENESS ARE OF LITTLE USE!

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  • The automobile industry is one of the most thriving among others contributing to crucial economic parameters is indisputable. Over the last couple of decades, the automobile industry has evolved rapidly courtesy of advancement in the technological prowess witnessed all around. Such has been the development in the modern-day technologically driven advancements that the automobile industry has metamorphosed unbelievably. Information technology has altered every aspect of our present-day existence and the ultramodern four-wheelers zooming around the roads across the globe showcase how humanity has embraced the convenient modes of transport. The mobility aspect in various modes has undergone pathbreaking alterations duly embraced by humanity.

Top ten safety features built into vehicles

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  • Despite safety aspects in transportation getting strengthened in line with the increased expectations from the end-users, especially the range of products in the four-wheeler segment, the most visible lacuna is the lack of awareness of how best to make use of safety features like airbags. In other words, advanced safety features in cars are no good without commensurate user awareness. This is one of the most notable outputs looking around the accidents reported including the Indian automobile users. Note that car airbags seem like soft, fluffy cushions until you have been in a crash. Powered by an explosive, they expand at speeds touching 320 kmph – faster than a jet taking off. Also, for an adult, the airbag impact is painful, and sometimes bruising.

 

Are airbags safe for children? – Precious Cargo

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  • And for a child, it can be fatal, as happened in Mumbai’s suburb Vashi recently. Six-year-old was in the front passenger seat of his father’s car when its airbags deployed in a freak low-speed collision that left the other occupants more or less unharmed. Doctors said the child had no external injury and may have died of shock and hemorrhage caused by airbag impact. On September 29, a two-year-old travelling in her mother’s lap in Kerala was smothered by an airbag. A week earlier, another two-year-old traveling in a car’s front passenger seat had died of airbag injuries in Ukraine. The takeaway is not that airbags are dangerous, but that a car’s front row is no place for kids, especially now when all new cars mandatorily come fitted with airbags.

Traffic Safety – Inspiresafety Foundation

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  • It’s been only three years since two airbags became mandatory in Indian cars, so maybe the message has not seeped in. Seatbelts and helmets – mandatory for decades – are yet to become universal habits. But it’s also true that public messaging about airbag risks is lacking: adults in the front row can also be severely hurt if they don’t wear seatbelts. Of late, talk about road safety has centred on vehicle features – stronger shells, more and more airbags, cameras, and AI. But last week’s accident, in which a container truck crushed a sturdy SUV in Bengaluru and killed its six occupants, shows this survivalist mindset in which each man or woman is only as safe as their cocoon-on-wheels are deeply flawed. There’s no substitute for awareness and road sense. Period.