Car Safety Features

• What modern safety features of a car?

  Airbags

  Crumple Zones
• What is the function of new car safety features?

  To reduce the forces acting on a passenger in a collision
• How do airbags and crumple zones reduce the forces acting on a passenger in a collision?

  They change shape, allowing the work to reduce the kinetic energy of the passenger to be done over a longer distance