I discovered this at thecarlounge.net in one of the posts. This comes from Euro NCAP, which tests cars for safety in Europe. Read this excerpt.
In the first frontal test, the airbags fired late owing to disconnection of a satellite airbag sensor early in the impact. Toyota re-routed the wiring to the sensor and modified the software in the control unit so that the airbags fired earlier in the event of a disconnection. Euro NCAP allowed Toyota to re-test the modified car. In the repeat test, the airbags fired as intended despite damage to the wiring harness. Toyota have informed Euro NCAP that they do not intend to apply these modifications to cars already sold. The driver's knees bottomed out the knee airbag and contacted the support bracket.
This means that Toyota RAV4s might have airbag problems. It looks like Toyota doesn't want to fix this possible problem.
In the end the RAV4 got 4 out of 5 stars in both adult and child safety. This could also be an isolated problem.
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