Supplemental Restraint Systems

Airbags – Second Generation or Smart Airbags Smart airbags, is simply the name given to dual stage airbag systems; because using sensors and controls they can regulate their own deployment. One of the sensors used with the driver's frontal airbag is the seat position sensor. There are many different types of these sensors, but they all do the same thing. They measure the distance between the seat and the airbag deployment zone, or front of the steering wheel. This allows the airbag control module to deploy the airbag according to the occupant's proximity to the inflation zone.