Autoliv Receives 2025 Automotive News PACE Pilot Recognition
The Bernoulli™ Airbag is Autoliv´s new patented revolutionary passenger airbag module that can inflate larger airbags more efficiently as well as reduce the development time and cost.
Autoliv's Bernoulli Airbag Module has been honored as one of the 12 Automotive News PACEpilot Innovations to Watch for 2025. This recognition highlights our innovative approach to passenger safety, leveraging fluid dynamics to efficiently inflate larger airbags with a smaller single-stage inflator. This groundbreaking technology is set to revolutionize safety in electric vehicles.
The Bernoulli™ Airbag
The new Autoliv airbag module is based on Swiss mathematician and physicist Daniel Bernoulli´s fundamental principles of fluid dynamics that explain many phenomena such as how airplanes fly.
Bernoulli´s principle states that an increase in the speed of a fluid occurs simultaneously with a decrease in static pressure. Using this principle, Autoliv can leverage pressure differences to add a significant contribution of surrounding air to the inflation of an airbag.
The Bernoulli™ Airbag Benefits
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Larger airbags for newer electric vehicles
Newer electric vehicles with roomier cockpits and comfort seating require larger airbags, and Autoliv´s revolutionary technology will solve this challenge.
Additionally, the Bernoulli Airbag generates less heat, is lighter, and can reduce customer development testing in the United States by more than 30 percent.
For the Bernoulli Airbag, the inflator will receive the signal that a crash has begun, and it will propel high pressure gases at supersonic speed through multiple inlet tubes. As the gases flow through the tubes, it will suck the surrounding ambient air into the chamber with the gases, creating aspiration, and will inflate a much larger airbag with an even smaller inflator than required today.
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The Bernoulli Airbag reflects our commitment to advancing safety through smart, efficient innovation. By rethinking how airbag systems interact with the vehicle environment, we’re opening new possibilities for protection, performance, and sustainability—all while giving our customers more flexibility in design.
Fabien Dumont - EVP & Chief Technology Officer, Autoliv
Innovation at Autoliv
As leaders in airbag manufacturing, with The Bernoulli Airbag we are taking vehicle safety to new heights. Learn more about our innovations and safety solutions.
