Hyundai Motor Group Develops Center Side Airbag

&NewLine;<p>Hyundai Motor&NewLine;Group &nbsp&semi;has developed a new center side&NewLine;airbag&comma; further enhancing the safety of its vehicles&period; The airbag works to&NewLine;separate the space between driver and passenger&period; The Group will roll out the&NewLine;technology in upcoming vehicles&period;&nbsp&semi;This is contained in a statement from the&NewLine;global auto giant&comma; made available to OpenLife&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>This new&comma;&NewLine;additional airbag expands into the space between driver and passenger seats to&NewLine;prevent head injuries of passengers in the front row&period; If there is no one in the&NewLine;front passenger seat&comma; the airbag will protect the driver from side collision&NewLine;coming from the right side&period; The center side airbag is installed inside the&NewLine;driver’s seat and will deploy once the impact is sensed&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>The new center&NewLine;side airbag is expected to diminish head injuries caused by passengers&NewLine;colliding with each other by 80&percnt;&period; According to the European Automobile&NewLine;Manufacturers’ Association’s statistics&comma; the rate of secondary damage caused by&NewLine;these kinds of collisions or from hitting interior materials is about 45&percnt;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>The Group has&NewLine;applied newly patented technology to maintain reliability but reduce the weight&NewLine;and size of the airbag&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Airbag has an&NewLine;internal component called tether which allows the airbag to maintain its form&NewLine;and withstand the passenger’s weight&period; Hyundai Motor Group has developed a new&NewLine;technology to simplify the design and reduce the weight of component produce an&NewLine;airbag which is about 500g lighter than the competing products&period; Thanks to the&NewLine;smaller size of the airbag&comma; the Group’s design teams will have more flexibility&NewLine;in the type of seat design they envision for future products&period;<br>&NewLine;Upcoming Euro NCAP is expected to include side impact into its consideration&NewLine;beginning year 2020 and Hyundai Motor Group’s airbag is expected to work&NewLine;favorably in such evaluation&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>The new center&NewLine;side airbag builds on The Group’s already stellar safety reputation&period; Hyundai&NewLine;vehicles have been awarded 5-Star Overall Safety Ratings by the NHTSA&comma; as well&NewLine;as 12 TOP SAFETY PICK&plus; awards by the IIHS&period; Those vehicles include the Hyundai&NewLine;Kona&comma; Santa Fe&comma; Tucson and NEXO&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The development&NewLine;of center side airbag goes beyond adding an additional airbag&comma;” said Hyock In&NewLine;Kwon&comma; research engineer from Crash Safety System Engineering Design Team of&NewLine;Hyundai Motor Group&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We will continue striving to further improve passenger&NewLine;safety by being ready for all kinds of accidents”<&sol;p>&NewLine;