Recently I experienced multiple failures of both an automobile Airbag and its electrical Module in a Mercedes 190E. This OEM airbag's nitrogen discharge hit me in the chest (200 pounds of force) while the airbag did not deploy and the automobile was not impacted. Said failure(s) are very dangerous which has been agreed to by representatives of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (hereinafter NHTSA). Notwithstanding the agreement by NHTSA (and many others) that said failures are very dangerous, the correct steps to investigate said failures have not been taken and NHTSA refuses to address same.
Said failures have been documented with the local police department and by a Mercedes qualified automobile mechanic, with whom a "chain of custody" of said parts has been maintained. In pursuing these issues with NHTSA they initially requested the delivery of said parts to their Washington laboratories. Then NHTSA later declined the forwarding of said parts, when I stated the chain of custody would be broken unless I hand deliver same, which I continuously offered to do. Concurrently, NHTSA suggested various failures and recalls which could apply, and which upon my investigation revealed that none of same applied. My further investigation revealed there are many airbag problems with Mercedes automobiles which NHTSA did not disclose to me. During my communications with NHTSA it became clear to me that their internal system of classifying product(s) failures by automobile was seriously flawed; which they surprisingly also agreed with. However, the problems with their internal classification exacerbate their inability to determine, if, what happened to me has in the past caused other accidents and / or deaths in various automobiles and/ or is currently a major issue. To clarify the problem with the NHTSA's internal classification system, the following excerpt is taken from one of my E-mails to NHTSA.
"As I advised you I believe your database is seriously flawed for the reasons I identified - including but not limited to failures linked to automobile type and not linked to part number(s) shared by a common part, which is placed on multiple vehicles. Example, using your database a single part used on 10 automobiles each having 5 failures would show up as only 5 failures - when 50 failures was the actual amount - your database in this example is 10% correct and 90% incorrect."
While they acknowledge it can [or has potentially] cause serious accidents or fatalities. Unbelievably (and irresponsibly) NHTSA states I should call my local political representative.
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Recently I experienced multiple failures of both an automobile Airbag and its electrical Module in a Mercedes 190E. This OEM airbag's nitrogen discharge hit me in the chest (200 pounds of force) while the airbag did not deploy and the automobile was not impacted. Said failure(s) are very dangerous which has been agreed to by representatives of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (hereinafter NHTSA). Notwithstanding the agreement by NHTSA (and many others) that said failures are very dangerous, the correct steps to investigate said failures have not been taken and NHTSA refuses to address same.
Said failures have been documented with the local police department and by a Mercedes qualified automobile mechanic, with whom a "chain of custody" of said parts has been maintained. In pursuing these issues with NHTSA they initially requested the delivery of said parts to their Washington laboratories. Then NHTSA later declined the forwarding of said parts, when I stated the chain of custody would be broken unless I hand deliver same, which I continuously offered to do. Concurrently, NHTSA suggested various failures and recalls which could apply, and which upon my investigation revealed that none of same applied. My further investigation revealed there are many airbag problems with Mercedes automobiles which NHTSA did not disclose to me. During my communications with NHTSA it became clear to me that their internal system of classifying product(s) failures by automobile was seriously flawed; which they surprisingly also agreed with. However, the problems with their internal classification exacerbate their inability to determine, if, what happened to me has in the past caused other accidents and / or deaths in various automobiles and/ or is currently a major issue. To clarify the problem with the NHTSA's internal classification system, the following excerpt is taken from one of my E-mails to NHTSA.
"As I advised you I believe your database is seriously flawed for the reasons I identified - including but not limited to failures linked to automobile type and not linked to part number(s) shared by a common part, which is placed on multiple vehicles. Example, using your database a single part used on 10 automobiles each having 5 failures would show up as only 5 failures - when 50 failures was the actual amount - your database in this example is 10% correct and 90% incorrect."
While they acknowledge it can [or has potentially] cause serious accidents or fatalities. Unbelievably (and irresponsibly) NHTSA states I should call my local political representative.
- wrb747, Boca Raton, FL, US