Air+Bag+Info

 Airbags have the ability to save your life in a car accident. They do this by increasing the time it takes for your body to come to a complete stop, which decreased the amount of force that is acting on your body. By the airbag exploding out of the car in your direction, it causes your body to hit the airbag and cause less acceleration. Who has ever seen an airbag explode in a car? Probably a few people. But who has ever seen an airbag explode into the air? Not too many! Our inspiration for this project was the curiosity of "how high would an airbag really go, and with how much force does it hit you in deployment?".

-Invented by Dr. Allen S. Breed -First marketed and produced in 1967 According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), frontal air bags saved 13,967 lives between 1987 and 2003.
 * Airbag Background Information:**

How do airbags work? __Image courtesy of [|How Airbags Work].__

 **Setup**: We set up an airbag in the middle of a field hooked up with wires to an electrical power supply. When jolted with //**12 volts**// of current, the airbag deployed and rose unto the air an actual height of 9.07 meters. Our camera was stationed 50 feet away and we got the whole thing captured on film!


 * Analysis:** After taking the video footage, we imported it onto the computer and into Loggerpro software. From there, we plotted points and created graphs to show the path of the airbag deployment. This analysis can be seen on the "analysis" page.  