More than 366,000 Subaru Foresters recalled for faulty front airbag sensors

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Subaru will recall certain Forester crossover SUVs equipped with heated front seats, the company announced this month. A loose electrical connection can cause a malfunction in the occupant detection system (ODS), which detects the relative size of a front-seat passenger. If the ODS doesn't detect a passenger, then the passenger airbag is...

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[TransAmDan]

Why on earth would you put some much switching control control in front of a safety circuit.

So the seat doesn't detect a passenger so the passenger air-bag does not deploy. Why not just have the air bag go off even if there is no passenger. Surely that is better than going though some form of weight detection circuit to determine the size of the passenger.

Too many electronics interfering with basic safety. A silly mistake like this just goes to prove car manufacturers cant get the basics correct, and they are building cars that drive themselves!?!