Airbags

Cyrus Mistry accident: How do airbags work? Did they deploy in the Mercedes?

While every car in India comes with front and rear seatbelts, not every vehicle is equipped with rear airbags. During a crash, seatbelts and airbags are meant to work in concert by restraining the passengers in place and cushioning the head and chest from impact

Maruti Suzuki may quit the small car market if costs turn unviable, says MS Chairman RC Bhargava

Maruti Suzuki’s chairman RC Bhargava stated that the automaker may be forced to discontinue making small cars if costs become unviable because of the central government’s policies. The policy he was talking about is the one where all passenger cars need to have six air bags.

Six airbags to be made mandatory for cars from October 1

The Minister also said that compulsory airbags are very important from a road safety point of view and that is why we made them mandatory for all cars including in the economic models too.

Minimum six airbags made mandatory in vehicles that carry up to eight passengers, says Gadkari

Road Transport and Highways Minister said his ministry had already mandated the implementation of fitment of the driver airbag with effect from July 1, 2019 and front co-passenger airbag with effect from January 1, 2022.

Volvo issues recall for 195,000 more vehicles in the US to replace driver airbag inflator

The latest recall posted Thursday by the NHTSA covers the Volvo XC70 and V70 wagons that were built between 22 February, 2000 through 4 May, 2007.

Skoda Octavia Corporate Edition launched in India starting at Rs 15.49 lakh

Notable features in the car include 6.5-inch infotainment with Android Auto/Apple Carplay.

Airbags, rearview sensors, speed warning and other safety systems to be mandatory from Oct 2017

If the Road Transport and Highways Ministry has its way, automakers could soon be forced to equip cars with airbags, rearview sensors, speed warning systems and more on their cars.

ABS and EBD now standard in all Toyota vehicles in India

Dual airbags was made standard in 2014

Toyota to undertake global recall of 2.86 million cars to fix faulty airbags

The recall covers vehicles produced between April 2006 and August 2015, and includes the Japanese automaker's gasoline hybrid Prius model, the Auris compact hatchback and Corolla compact models

How safe is safe?

Bajaj claims its Qute is safer than cars like the VW Polo