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The obvious implication is that a car with more airbags is safer than one with fewer. If a car has 10 airbags while its competitor has only six, you can just imagine the sorts of injuries you could suffer with four fewer bags.
This is not to say that the LX570 will be anything other than very safe - just like every other Lexus vehicle. It's just that, in the end, airbag counting isn't the most useful way to gauge safety.
Besides, airbags by themselves don't make a car safe. They're complex devices that work with a car's metal body and its seatbelts to protect occupants. Fewer, better designed airbags in a well-engineered car body are worth more than a whole bunch of airbags in a car that offers little protection on its own.
And the proof lies in crash test results from agencies like the government's National Highway Traffic Administration and the private Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.
The obvious implication is that a car with more airbags is safer than one with fewer. If a car has 10 airbags while its competitor has only six, you can just imagine the sorts of injuries you could suffer with four fewer bags.
This is not to say that the LX570 will be anything other than very safe - just like every other Lexus vehicle. It's just that, in the end, airbag counting isn't the most useful way to gauge safety.
Besides, airbags by themselves don't make a car safe. They're complex devices that work with a car's metal body and its seatbelts to protect occupants. Fewer, better designed airbags in a well-engineered car body are worth more than a whole bunch of airbags in a car that offers little protection on its own.
And the proof lies in crash test results from agencies like the government's National Highway Traffic Administration and the private Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.
Not to mention the stupid cell phone usage.
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