Essay On Air Bags

Air Bags:
Air bags use the basic laws of physics and are extremely effective when a car crashes but can be very dangerous if not used properly. The idea of an airbag came about in the early 1980’s when a dangerous amount of accidents involving people in the front were recorded.
1998 was a real political year for the airbag which gained it’s first meaningful law in the United states, the law was “any car should have an airbag installed in both the front passenger and driver’s seats.
Airbag’s have had a really positive effect on the world of road safety (statistically proven) the risk of death from direct frontal crash has reduced by about 30%. In the early 2000’s seat installed air bags came about and they became extremely important and effective

From a legal and political perspective with the sheer amount of seat belts being used in the world there are a lot of laws and rules that relate to it.
There are well over 150+ countries using seat belt laws but not all of these are HIC’s (high income countries) therefore they do not always have the strictest or effective traffic laws.
These are places like Mexico city, Rio de Janeiro and in the sub continent places like Delhi and Dhaka. Places like Mexico and Rio have alarming crime rates and that is because of the social statuses and behaviour of a lot of people. In places like Rio and Mexico traffic laws should be more stern and strict.
Places like Delhi and Dhaka the people do not always not know the rules. That is why the rules are not always followed as people are quite carefree and have no worry on what the police do. When they can claim they did not know the rules and give the police a bit of money and the so called ‘punishment’ is lifted.
This is not necessarily the police’s problem but more of the government’s and the people’s because the government should be enforcing more stricter measures in (LIC’s) and the people of these countries should be more concerned with their own