Proceedings of the 6th international symposium and exhibition on sophisticated car occupant safety systems - Airbag 2002 - held Karlsruhe, Germany, December 2-4, 2002.

This conference concerns topics related to safety systems installed in cars. Papers cover the use and development of air bags, air curtains and air belts; pre-tensioning of seat belts; predictive crash sensing; accident studies; reduction of injury risk from restraint systems; innovations in gas generators; inflators, air bag fabric and in-car components; and testing and measurement of current systems. There are twenty-five lecture papers and twenty-nine poster papers: the full text is not published for some of the papers. For abstracts of some of the papers see C 34287 - C 34325 (ITRD E126783-E126821).