How do seatbelts and airbags keep you safe in a crash?
Seatbelt Heroes
How do seatbelts and airbags keep you safe in a crash?
Picture a car rolling smoothly down the road. Inside, everything is calm. But here's a sneaky secret of motion: when a car stops suddenly, the people inside do NOT want to stop. That's the whole story of why seatbelts and airbags exist. Let's meet the real villain first.
The villain is a law of nature with a fancy name: inertia. It just means moving things love to keep moving. When the car is rolling, YOU are rolling too — your whole body cruising forward at the same speed as the car. You don't feel it, because everything's moving together. Calm. Cozy. Totally fine.
