In the 1970s, American automobile companies such as General Motors, Ford, Mercedes-Benz in Germany and Toyota in Japan, as well as American Morton Company, TRW Company, German TEMIC Company, ICT Research Institute, Japanese DAICEL Company and Swedish Autoliv Company began to invest a lot of money and manpower in airbag research and development. 197 1 in may, a german research team successfully applied rocket propulsion technology to automobile airbags. These comprehensive forces make the research and development of airbags enter a new stage of development.
1984 the American highway traffic safety Committee (NHTSA) added the requirement of installing airbags in clause 208 of the famous federal motor vehicle safety standard 208, which provided clear rules and directions for the development and use of airbags. The clause FMVSS208 is an important milestone in the development history of automobile airbags. Since then, Europe has also promulgated the ECER94 regulation, and then Japanese Toyota, Honda, American Ford, Chrysler, German BMW, Sweden Volvo and other automobile companies have started to sell cars equipped with airbags.
In the late 1990s, the United States, Europe and Japan have formally legislated to install airbags in cars, and double airbags have become the standard for most mainstream cars.