Abstract Every day there are numerous automotive accidents that occur everywhere. In many of these accidents there are people either injured or killed. Of these people, many are injured or killed because of safety devices either not existing, poorly designed, or improperly used. Automotive manufacturers each year work to make their vehicles safer than the past years and to be safer than other manufacturers. There are always new safety devices coming out like side curtain …showed first 75 words of 2065 total…

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