Counterfeit Airbags!  2 hours with Thomas Nichols
DATE: Friday, 19 July 2024
TIME: 12 noon - 2 pm EDT (GMT-4)
COST: Free for NAPARS members;  $5 for non-members
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SUMMARY:

We will have Thomas Nichols from GM in to discuss the problem with counterfeit airbags. The agenda includes:

     1) Known Cases
     2) Composition and Performance of Genuine OEM Airbags
     3) Lab analysis of Counterfeit airbags and their deployment
     4) How to identify counterfeit airbags
     5) Resources & Support

When Thomas is finished, Wade Bartlett will fill the remaining time with a discussion of how the system decides whether or not to fire an airbag:

-It is a Predictive system - attempting to determine what's about to happen in the next 150ms based on the early part of the event

-Acceleration Rate of Change is called JERK

-Seatbelt status is (probably) taken into account

-The idea that "bags deploy at some speed change" is WRONG...but here's why it got talked about that way.