The safety-obsessed people over at Siemens VDO have developed a new system that, depending on the noise produced by a crash, will figure out the best way to deploy the airbags.
The Crash Impact Sound Sensor (CISS) is quicker on the draw than other systems (up to 15 milliseconds), and depending on the information it receives from the audio sensors, it can determine where the collision took place and the level of severity. In turn, the only airbags deployed would be the ones necessary to protect the affected passengers.
The system is particularly important to the vertically challenged, who have sustained serious injury when an airbag was deployed unnecessarily.
[Source: Siemens VDO via Autopia]
The Crash Impact Sound Sensor (CISS) is quicker on the draw than other systems (up to 15 milliseconds), and depending on the information it receives from the audio sensors, it can determine where the collision took place and the level of severity. In turn, the only airbags deployed would be the ones necessary to protect the affected passengers.
The system is particularly important to the vertically challenged, who have sustained serious injury when an airbag was deployed unnecessarily.
[Source: Siemens VDO via Autopia]
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