Car manufacturers typically design airbags to protect an adult who’s at least 5 feet tall and roughly 150 pounds. Even if a child is wearing a seat belt correctly when riding in the front seat ...

Even with advanced air bags, children under 13 should not ride in the front seat. In the past 30 years, air bags have saved over 50,000 lives. They protect passengers from injury in crashes but ...

NHTSA estimates that airbags were the cause of more than 290 deaths between 1990 and 2008—mostly unbelted children or infants riding in the front-passenger seat. Advances in airbag technology ...

Germany's Volkswagen company is recalling 16,500 vehicles due to a dangerous defect in the airbag, Azernews reports ciiting ...

143,053 2018–2021 Atlas and 2020 Atlas Cross Sport SUVs may have a defect that makes the front passenger airbag shut off even though someone is in the seat.

Kids can sit in the front seat of the car, without a car seat, from the age of 12 years old or when they’re over 135cm tall ...

Toyota is warning drivers of 2022-2023 Corolla Cross SUVs not to allow anyone to sit in the front passenger seat until a dealership can perform a free airbag fix. Ad-free. Influence-free.

Volkswagen is recalling more than 143,000 of its SUVs because the front passenger air bags may be deactivated, and urging people to not let anyone sit in the front passenger seat, the U.S ...

More than 18,000 Porsche vehicles are being recalled due to airbag and rearview camera issues. Porsche Cars North America issued two recalls last week, one for 9,735 of its 2022-2023 Taycan sports ...

Volkswagen is recalling 143,000 of its big Atlas SUVs in the United States because a faulty sensor in the front passenger seat can cause the airbag on that side to turn off. Until the issue can be ...

Faulty wiring in a weight sensor on the front passenger side of some Atlases can switch off the airbag. Owners shouldn't let people ride in that seat until the problem can be corrected, VW advised.