A car safety device that is activated by the force of a collision or other sudden stop and that aims to prevent injury to a passenger.
Example sentencesExamples
A General Motors Corp. veteran of some of these battles, recalls, ‘In the early 1980s, we were at war with the insurance industry over airbags and passive restraints.’
I was hoping to get passive restraints in cars and also state safety-belt laws, and we had none at the time, in '83.
But it was only after the federal government required that all new cars have passive restraints by 1990 that the market took off.
In newer vehicles you can do the same with the passive restraint system.
It is noted, however, that buses used to transport children in Great Britain do not feature passive restraint design as adopted in North America.
The US and Canada have large dedicated schoolbus fleets that incorporate passive restraints through their seat designs (spacing, seat padding, and seatback height), an approach referred to as compartmentalisation.
Definition of passive restraint in US English:
passive restraint
noun
A car safety device that is activated by the force of a collision or other sudden stop and that aims to prevent injury to a passenger.
Example sentencesExamples
The US and Canada have large dedicated schoolbus fleets that incorporate passive restraints through their seat designs (spacing, seat padding, and seatback height), an approach referred to as compartmentalisation.
But it was only after the federal government required that all new cars have passive restraints by 1990 that the market took off.
It is noted, however, that buses used to transport children in Great Britain do not feature passive restraint design as adopted in North America.
I was hoping to get passive restraints in cars and also state safety-belt laws, and we had none at the time, in '83.
In newer vehicles you can do the same with the passive restraint system.
A General Motors Corp. veteran of some of these battles, recalls, ‘In the early 1980s, we were at war with the insurance industry over airbags and passive restraints.’