Airbags began being installed into automobiles around the mid-1980’s (Dowd 136). Since their introduction, airbags have been present in 2.6 million accidents (Carbonara 132). In those accidents they have saved over thirty-four hundred people (Carbonara 132). The shocking fact is that more than one hundred and twenty people have died from the airbag itself. Of those one hundred and twenty, sixty-six were under the age of twelve (Carbonara 132). Because airbags have been more harmful than helpful to children and small adults, automakers are st ....