View Single Post
  #3  
Old 05-12-2006, 11:35 AM
vstech's Avatar
vstech vstech is offline
DD MOD, HVAC,MCP,Mac,GMAC
 
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Mount Holly, NC
Posts: 27,022
Quote:
Originally Posted by rchase
Hmmm,
BMW's are also engineered differently.... I have a friend who had a 1999 328... He had a drivers seat sensor go bad and it disabled all 6 airbags in the car.... Mercedes engineers have a little more sense than that..... If the car is traveling down the road at 60mph it likely has a driver in the seat..... If there is no driver airbags deploying in empty seats are the very least of your problems.......
Well, it was most likely due to lawsuits. I belive the sensors are there to shut off the airbags for small light fragile individuals, minor crash with airbag deployment will kill children and small adults.
John
Reply With Quote