General Motors has introduced the industry’s first front center air bag, an inflatable restraint designed to help protect drivers and front passengers in far-side impact crashes where the affected occupant is on the opposite, nonstruck side of the vehicle. According to GM, the device deploys from the right side of the driver’s seat and positions itself between the front row seats near the center of the vehicle. The tethered, tubular air bag is designed to provide restraint during passenger-side crashes when the driver is the only front occupant, and also acts as an energy absorbing cushion between driver and front passenger in both driver- and passenger-side crashes. GM says the air bag also will provide benefit in rollovers.
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