1.   Children and small-statured adults are at particular risk, since they take the full force of bag deployment in the head and neck.

2.   Driving with your chin over the steering wheel invites serious injury in a bag deployment.

3.   Field tests on bag deployment surely indicated that small people were at risk.

4.   High-speed crashes require very quick bag deployment to prevent death and injury.

5.   Regulators and representatives of the auto industry are still haggling over a separate proposal by the industry to reduce the force of bag deployment.