# Safety: Airbags too sensitive, deploy too easily in certain accidents like hitting a deer

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/safety-airbags-too-sensitive-deploy-too-easily-in-certain-accidents-like-hitting-a-deer/190714>\
**Category:** Safety\
**Created:** [May 19, 2023, 1:30pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/safety-airbags-too-sensitive-deploy-too-easily-in-certain-accidents-like-hitting-a-deer/190714 "2023-05-19T13:30:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![Nevada\_545](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/nevada_545/32/41232_2.png) [@Nevada\_545](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Nevada_545)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2023, 7:02pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/safety-airbags-too-sensitive-deploy-too-easily-in-certain-accidents-like-hitting-a-deer/190714/9 "2023-05-19T19:02:21Z")

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> [@Frame bent on Rav4. No accidents. PLS help](https://community.cartalk.com/t/frame-bent-on-rav4-no-accidents-pls-help/190683/1):
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> This in turn caused the sensor, which is part of the Toyota logo, to be mis-aligned and not function.

The radar sensor on the Rav4 is for the pre-collision system/auto braking system and cruise control, it cannot set off an airbag.

> [@TheWonderful90s](#):
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> Same thing. The airbag sensor is mounted right under the front of the hood in the middle, just behind the grille.

There is also a safing sensor in the airbag control unit, there must be sufficient g forces in the collision to trigger the safing sensor, the front collision sensors alone will not cause an airbag to deploy.

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