Heck YES! In a rollover? They darned well better!

Or would you prefer scrapping your face off various interior styling appointments?

What a moron!

The amount of energy expended in a 70mph rollover is tremendous and violent. Airbags will go off with a very mild front end impact, such as striking an animal at 10-15 mph.

Just wondering who you were calling moron?

Unless there was an Inflatable Restraint Vehicle Rollover Sensor impact for the air bag zone that qualified deployment the bag (s) will not deploy. Your vehicle may or may not have this restraint system. Some air bag systems have two stage deployment. Meaning that Dual stage inflator modules contain a housing, inflatable air bag, 2 initiating devices, canister of gas generating material and, in some cases, stored compressed gas. The 2 initiators are part of the inflator module deployment loop. The inflator modules have 2 stages of deployment, which varies the amount of restraint to the occupant according to the collision severity. For moderate frontal collisions the inflator modules deploy at less than full deployment which consists of stage 1 of the inflator module. For more severe frontal collisions a full deployment is initiated which consists of stage 1 and stage 2 of the inflator module. Hope this basic information helps you understand the basic restraint system operation. Your vehicle manufacturer can give you detailed information on your cars system so you know how your system functions.

Was the front end impacted...if not, no.

I smell a lawsuit.... (I beleive the sensors are in the bottom part of the sides, front and back of the car) So if the car is hitted on any area in top of the windows the sensors dont detect it and they dont deploy....

Lawsuit? For what? Costing a few hundred dollars for replacement airbags (and no body bags) when the car is a total loss?

I DON'T THINK SO!

So what would be the point of replacing airbags for a few hundred dollars, when the car is a total loss? There could possibly be a lawsuit, for having a malfunction with the car in the first place.

Thats the area I was thinking Elizabeth.....

They are tested to deploy with head on collisions.... if there is enough impact if you go head first into the ditch and then roll it will deploy. but if you are t boned or roll from the side highly unlikely....