How can an airbag know when it should go up or not?
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Throughout the car there are different sensors measuring acceleration, deformation and forces. With this sensor data a computer can determine, if a crash happened or not and deploy different airbags. Usually this is done by training some kind of mathematical model with sensor data of countless simulations of crash (and non crash) scenarios. Obviously it is important that the airbag deploys during a crash to protect the driver. But it is also important that the airbag isn’t deployed in scenarios where it’s not necessary or could even be dangerous to the occupants.
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