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Ford's New Injection Molded Airbag

To better meet the knees of the customer

By Rain Noe - August 20, 2015

in Cars

The challenge for automotive engineers is to make cars lighter, as less mass equals less gas. And when you can use less components to deliver comparable functionality, that's a win on both the balance sheet and on the assembly line.

Thus the engineers at Ford's German facility, in Cologne, took a hard look at the new Mustang to see where there was fat to trim. They realized they could do away with part of the bulky passenger-side airbag assembly if they replaced the lower portion with this novel arrangement, which ditches textiles for injection-molded plastic:

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Unlike Volvo's crazy disappearing front seats, this is no concept; if you're rolling around in a 2015 Mustang, you might not have realized it, but these puppies are already installed in there.

(Via The Engineer, a UK-based publication that insists on spelling it "injection moulded")

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Mike Parsons

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Well yes, injection moulding is spelt like that in the UK.

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