A safety feature designed to protect front-seat passengers from hitting each other in a crash is missing from many American cars. This feature, which includes airbags that deploy in a side-impact crash, can help prevent serious head injuries or death. Despite being first introduced in the US, the airbags are not widely available in American cars.

Crash tests in Europe have driven the adoption of these airbags, but similar testing is not done in the US. Authorities have questioned the effectiveness of this safety feature.

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