Airbags are safety features that are designed to save passengers from harm in a head-on collision. Airbags react within milliseconds of a crash, and the folded nylon bag quickly becomes inflated with nitrogen gas. The inflated airbag has the role of being a cushion for passengers and prevents them from hitting into the steering column and dashboard, which can cause painful injuries for passengers. Airbags were invented by John Hetrick in 1953 after Hetrick, his wife and young daughter got into a car accident in 1952. The family was driving around the Pennsylvania countryside when suddenly a huge rock on the road forced Hetrick to swerve into a ditch. With no restraint systems, Hetrick and his wife had to grasp their daughter back to ensure that she would not hit the dashboard and to save her life. In the 1950s, car passengers who got into accidents had very severe injuries, and those who did survive these accidents typically had horribly mutilated faces, nicknamed by doctors as “steering wheel faces”. Hetrick decided to take action to ensure the safety of other drivers that got into accidents. His idea for the airbag was based off of work he had done on torpedoes, which had an inflatable canvas cover. His idea was patented in 1953, and in this, he stated, “This invention has reference to an inflatable cushion assembly adapted to be mounted in the passenger compartment of a vehicle, and arranged to be inflated responsive to sudden slowing of the forward motion of the vehicle.” Hetrick wanted his technology, consisting of an air accumulator, inflatable cushion, and a release valve, to be placed on the steering wheel, in the glove compartment, and on the instrument panel. Airbags were not used on production vehicles for almost 30 years after Hetrick’s idea was patent due to the practicalities of installing airbags. Car makers became curious about the airbag