How fast do you have too be going in a hummer to have the air bags deploy?

Airbags are designed to deploy only when they might be needed to prevent serious injury. In order for airbags to be effective they must deploy early in a crash; in a frontal crash this typically occurs within the first 50 milliseconds (0.05 seconds). A vehicle's airbag control module relies on feedback from crash sensors to predict whether an event is severe enough to warrant an airbag deployment.



With Hummer's certain vehicles originally built with cloth seats that were equipped with an automatic air bag passenger sensing system and later reupholstered with aftermarket leather seat cover kits are involved. Testing has indicated that the aftermarket leather seat covers can cause the passenger sensing system to malfunction. Some of those model vehicles have been recalled. Technically it really does not matter what speed the vehicle is actually going, it depends on alot of other factors to determine the deployement of the airbag.How fast do you have too be going in a hummer to have the air bags deploy?GM electronic air bag SDMs do not look at vehicle speed to determine an air bag deployment command.



The airbag SDM looks for a change in acceleration on the vehicle 'X' axis to determine deployment criteria.



So technically, a GM car could be stopped or moving very slowly, be in an accident event, and deploy the air bags.How fast do you have too be going in a hummer to have the air bags deploy?
Whether airbags should go off is not determined only by the speed of the car. It is also determined by the direction of the impact. For example, airbags in a steering wheel or over the glove compartment should go off only if the car hits something or if the front of the car is hit head-on by another vehicle, and should not go off if the car is hit on the side, at any speed.How fast do you have too be going in a hummer to have the air bags deploy?well, usually you get to the airbags first before the hummer starts. it's just part of the foreplay. sometimes it goes the other way around, so you should slow it up so you get to enjoy the best of both worlds.How fast do you have too be going in a hummer to have the air bags deploy?
Trial and error sounds like a good way to go about this. Just make sure you try it on some foreign car. Preferably a hybrid ;)How fast do you have too be going in a hummer to have the air bags deploy?actually its not the speed its the sudden stop that deploys the bags