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Airbags are an amazing feat of engineering—a safety feature so effective, they’ve spread from the steering wheel to just about every surface of a new car’s interior.

But just how quickly does an airbag have to work to do its job?

Judging by this video from Honda, the margin of error is astoundingly thin: Just 1/100th of a second can make all the difference......

Full video at link but here is what happens when it goes wrong: