first year for air bag
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In 1971 Ford introduced air bags in experimental fleet vehicles. The 1973 Oldsmobile Toronado was the first production car with a passenger air bag. Dual air bag Cadillacs, Oldsmobiles and Buicks were introduced in 1974.
Cars were required to have driver's air bags in 1986, don't know about the trucks, but all of them, trucks included (except commercial trucks) were required to have dual air bags in 1994.
Cars were required to have driver's air bags in 1986, don't know about the trucks, but all of them, trucks included (except commercial trucks) were required to have dual air bags in 1994.
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And all this, despite Lee Iacocca's hatred of them. Of course, when they became required, he changed his tune pretty quick.
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in 1987 i had a 1976 Ford F150 or F 100 longbox pickup ( i forget the exact model now but it was red lol) and i would take my ex wife and her mother out in that. A case could be made for that truck having dual airbags in it
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if a car had automatic seatbelts, it didn't have to have airbags.
airbags weren't federally mandated until 1990. ford put them into their cars in 1989. the law for airbags was put into effect in 1986, but the 4 years was given for any redesigns to include airbags. it was kinda hard to desgin and retrofit an airbag system into a modern car.
airbags weren't federally mandated until 1990. ford put them into their cars in 1989. the law for airbags was put into effect in 1986, but the 4 years was given for any redesigns to include airbags. it was kinda hard to desgin and retrofit an airbag system into a modern car.
