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To: roguedolphin who wrote (22438)9/14/2007 4:29:57 AM
From: elmatador  Respond to of 217734
 
I just read 'Most recalled Cars 2007'. If a short woman without safety belt crashes, the air bag may smash the pigmy person.

Problem: On certain sport-utility vehicles, static air-bag deployment testing—conducted by NHTSA using fifth-percentile female dummies—indicated if a small-stature adult driver, not wearing a seat belt, is involved in a frontal or near frontal crash, deployment of the driver air bag may result in an insufficient margin of compliance as measured by the test dummy used in the NHTSA test.

Now I read that:
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