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2378 Since the ordinary consumer is not likely to be familiar with minimum safety standards for automobile airbags, determination of whether an airbag was defective in design should be based on the risk-benefit analysis test rather than on the consumer expectation test.



PRUITT v GM (Air Bag) 72 CA4 1480 [See: Greenman v Yuba 59 C2 57; Barker v Lull 20 C3 413; Soule v GM 8 C4 548, T/AT 11/94; Bresnahan v Chrysler 65 CA4 1149, T/AT 9/98]


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