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3373 The deployment of an automobile air bag in a head-on collision is a matter of which ordinary consumers can form minimum safety expectations, so the consumer expectation test is an appropriate way of determining whether an air bag that failed to deploy was defective in design; proof that an automobile air bag’s failure to deploy was a cause of plaintiff’s injury is sufficient to shift to defendant the burden of showing that the risks of its design were outweighed by the benefits of that design.CitationMcCABE v AMERICAN HONDA (Air Bag) 100 CA4 1111 [See: Barker v Lull 20 C3 413; Soule v GM 8 C4 548, T/AT 11/94; Pruitt v GM 72 CA4 1480, T/AT 7/99; Bresnahan v Chrysler 32 CA4 1559, T/AT 4/95]
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