Research by the NHTSA (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration) in the United States has revealed that children in a rear-facing child seat on the front passenger's side of a vehicle have suffered fatal injuries due to air bag deployment. The same thing has occurred with children sitting in the passenger seat too close to the air bag deployment unit. These fatalities could have been prevented by deactivation of the passenger-side air bag. There are also situations in which activation of the passenger-side air bag would be superfluous, e.g., when the passenger's seat is occupied by an object instead of a person.
To be able to identify different types of occupancy of the passenger's seat when the passenger-side air bag must not be activated, various systems are available for sensingaccidental injuries *568 received by her on August 29, 1955, when she was working as a saleswoman in the store's shoe department. She was injured when she climbed on a shelf, slipped and fell, striking her head on the edge of the shelf and suffered headache and concussion. The agreement stated, "mild cerebral concussion", but the referee modified this in his findings of fact based on medical testimony to be, "a basilar fracture of the skull with cerebrospinal rhinorrhea".
Compensation was paid under the agreement from September 6, 1955 to March 31, 1959 based upon an agreed wage of $56.55 per week at the rate of $32.50 weekly for a period of 186 weeks or a total amount of $6045.
On April 15, 1959, the appellants filed a petition to