Over a period of 17 months from April 1988 to September of 1990 Chrysler Corporation converted all its US. built passenger cars to equip them with a driver airbag supplemental restraint system. In an effort to evaluate the driver airbag effectiveness from early data in reducing frontal crash driver fatalities, the driver fatality rates for each of the converted vehicles before and after the introduction of the driver airbag are compared. Without enough fatality data to statistically quantify the effectiveness of the driver airbag, a methodology for assessing the effectiveness is demonstrated which will quantify it when more data are available. Driver airbags show directional improvement in reducing driver fatalities but the magnitudes are not statistically reliable at this time.