Beware the side curtain air bag deployment algorithm!

[jravenfan]

Well, reading this will make me reconsider turning off the nannies and playing around.
Donuts are fun, getting a little sideways out of a turn (as long as you control it) can be fun too.

[45thAnniversary2SS]

Why don't we have an "Airbags Off" button?

[Blau camaro]

Manufacturer defect!

[RocketCutlass]

Because some idiot would forget to turn them back on after playing around, crash, and then sue.

[102SS]

Originally Posted by 45thAnniversary2SS

Why don't we have an "Airbags Off" button?

Because if people got killed using that feature their family would sue.

In most of these cases the tail got wagging.

The Donut Guy wasn't just doing donuts he had the tail kicking out large side to side.

I think that tail wagging is a big factor in most of these events.

[mySSt]

Originally Posted by 102SS

At 1.7G's and 40* list and 80+mph it seems like a normal event to me,the computer thought the driver had lost it and a crash was inevitable and he probably had lost it.

If your going to drift something pick something with less technology.

BTW anyone see the vid of the Hennesey CTS-V catapult launch on the dragstrip where Onstar thought they had been rearended because of the launch G's?

This wasn't a drifting exercise - just trying to correct a slide caused by an unexpected condition. Same thing could happen on wet road, iced road, dirt road, poor road surface, .....

An unwanted common factor in several of these events seems to be the change in yaw when the driver turns the wheel into a slide. Makes you wonder what the computer would have 'decided' if no steering input to correct the car's rotation?

[midnighter]

I'll sue GM if mine deploy for no reason.

[Jeff_SS]

Originally Posted by 102SS

BTW anyone see the vid of the Hennesey CTS-V catapult launch on the dragstrip where Onstar thought they had been rearended because of the launch G's?

Happens to this guy's Camaro too.

[jrisebo]

Originally Posted by mySSt

Nope, GM won't pay for any of it. They collect the data from the SIR module and then tell you "the system functioned normally."

Cut them out and put the plastic piece back in it.

[Denis]

Well I just got a new set of pirelli's and the plan is to burn off the old ones tomorrow night. Ill be sure to report back on the air bag deployment issue.

[its a syn]

Originally Posted by Denis

Well I just got a new set of pirelli's and the plan is to burn off the old ones tomorrow night. Ill be sure to report back on the air bag deployment issue.

I'm getting a new rear set Wednesday. Let me know how it goes!!!!

[Denis]

Originally Posted by its a syn

I'm getting a new rear set Wednesday. Let me know how it goes!!!!

Oh don't worry. There's gonna be a video.

[2012-1822]

Originally Posted by Denis

Oh don't worry. There's gonna be a video.

Looking forward to it.


I think some people commenting haven't seen the video. Watch it. All that data aside, I'd be pissed if mine deployed under thise circumstances, worse yet, what happens if you pull a tireoff the ground on a road course coming down a hill in turn, computer fires off airbags, you had control, now you don't and you total your car and injure yourself or others.

[vroomapunk]

Originally Posted by 102SS

At 1.7G's and 40* list and 80+mph it seems like a normal event to me,the computer thought the driver had lost it and a crash was inevitable and he probably had lost it.

If your going to drift something pick something with less technology.

BTW anyone see the vid of the Hennesey CTS-V catapult launch on the dragstrip where Onstar thought they had been rearended because of the launch G's?

Right

And no I didnt see that hahah, thats great