Triste anniversaire : Oldsmobile 1 an déja !

The airbag, also known as the Supplementary/Secondary Restraint System (SRS) or the Air Cushion Restraint System (ACRS) is an inflatable, flexible bag of air or another gas used for cushioning, especially in car crashes.

History:

-it was invented and patented in the 1950's, although similar devices had been used earlier in airplanes
-in 1967, American inventor Allen Breed developed a ball-in-tube sensor for crash detection, and marketed it to Chrysler
-it was considered valuable because many people did not wear seatbelts back then
-in 1971, Ford built an experimental group of cars with airbags, and in the early 1970's, cars made by Oldsmobile, Buick, and Cadillac came with airbags; however, they were not popular with the market
-in 1980, Mercedes-Benz introduced the airbag in Germany; however, the seatbelts would be tightened by the sensors before the airbag was deployed; thus, it was no longer used as a replacement for seatbelts but rather as added security
-in the 1980's, airbags became common when Chrysler and Ford re-introduced them, and Chrysler made it standard equipment in 1990
-in 1984, the American government required driver's side airbags or automatic seatbelts in cars by 1989, and in 1998 the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration required dual front airbags

427copoz a écrit:Salut

un petit peu de chronologie que je vient de trouver
mais c'est a vérifier si c'est exacte

The airbag, also known as the Supplementary/Secondary Restraint System (SRS) or the Air Cushion Restraint System (ACRS) is an inflatable, flexible bag of air or another gas used for cushioning, especially in car crashes.

History:

-it was invented and patented in the 1950's, although similar devices had been used earlier in airplanes
-in 1967, American inventor Allen Breed developed a ball-in-tube sensor for crash detection, and marketed it to Chrysler
-it was considered valuable because many people did not wear seatbelts back then
-in 1971, Ford built an experimental group of cars with airbags, and in the early 1970's, cars made by Oldsmobile, Buick, and Cadillac came with airbags; however, they were not popular with the market
-in 1980, Mercedes-Benz introduced the airbag in Germany; however, the seatbelts would be tightened by the sensors before the airbag was deployed; thus, it was no longer used as a replacement for seatbelts but rather as added security
-in the 1980's, airbags became common when Chrysler and Ford re-introduced them, and Chrysler made it standard equipment in 1990
-in 1984, the American government required driver's side airbags or automatic seatbelts in cars by 1989, and in 1998 the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration required dual front airbags

Salutations

Je me demande si les RPO codes des Buick 1975 sont les mêmes que ceux des Chevrolets.

AR3 : RESTRAINT SYSTEM, HEAD, RR SEAT, CLOTH COVERED,

1968
Air-bag sensor
Allen Breed, Inventor

Allen Breed made a fortune selling devices that people hope they'll never have to use. In 1968, Breed adapted his patented ball-in-tube sensor, which was designed to control the firing of rockets, to trigger air-bag inflation in the event of a car crash. He spent the next 15 years trying to persuade the Big Three to make air bags standard equipment. But it was only after the federal government required that all new cars have passive restraints by 1990 that the market took off. As the leading supplier for GM and Ford, Breed Technologies saw its sales increase nearly 40-fold in five years, reaching $89 million in 1992, when the company went public.

C'est bizzare que certains sites mentionnent sa collaboration avec Chrysler et son invention en 1967 alors que d'autres mentionnent 1968 et sa colaboration avec GM et Ford...

This is not true. The first air bag patent was in 1952, and GM first
tested an air bag in 1959 ( in the form of an inflabale dashboard ).
However, the problem was that insufficient information existed to
determine what was an acceptable design force for automotive components
necessary to improve occupant impact survivability. In 1960, GM installed
a crash decelerator sled at Wayne State University, and by 1963 embalmed
cadavers were being used to measure the deceleration forces that could be
tolerated. Higher speed data was also beginning to be produced from
aerospace industry tests.

The following chronology is from several different sources...

In 1969, General Motors warned government safety officials that children
who are too close to an airbag when it deploys could be " severely injured
or killed ".

In 1971, Chryler's President, John.J.Ricardo wrote to John Volpe, head
of the Transportation department, noting that the air bag is " potentially
hazardous for an out-of-position adult or small child '.

In September 1971 Ford expressed concern that NHTSA was given the power to
mandate airbags when they may not provide as much protection as wearing seat
belts, and could be hazardous to small children.

In October 1972 Ford places instructions in manuals of vehicles with
passenger-side airbags stating that small children should never be allowed
to occupy the front seat " because the force of the deploying airbag may
impose dangerously high loads on them ".

In 1972, a GM study using baboons concluded that out-of-position children
may be at risk of serious or fatal injuries from air bags. A NHTSA brochure
dismissed these concerns, saying the agency had tested risks to
"out-of-position" occupants and found them not to be valid.

In 1974, tests by Volvo showed out-of-position children could be killed
or seriously injured by air bags. The tests used baby pigs, of which only
3 of the 24 test pigs survived.

Buick68 a écrit:Salut , 90 ca devait être un 3.1 ? Les brakes , 4 disques sans ABS , coutaient assez cher a entretenir la dessus  

Grandga a écrit:Salut les cousins,

voilà ce que je suis en train de choyer au fin fond de la province française, il ne doit plus y en avoir des masses par chez nous...



Bonne Année à tous les amateurs de beaux chars

Dom a écrit:En effet on voie pas souvent des 69. Les modèle 1971-72 sont plus courant.