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Class As may be the most expensive, most luxurious, most option-packed motorhomes on the road, but they typically don’t have air bags and are not required to be crash-tested by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). Other types of motorhomes (Class Bs and Cs, described later in this chapter) are built around an existing truck cab that comes from the auto manufacturer with airbags and other safety systems you’re accustomed to in a modern car. They also come equipped with in-dash entertainment packages, and heating and air-conditioning systems that keep the driver and passenger in the cab comfortable. Those systems were engineered into the vehicle by the original truck manufacturer and crash-tested by the NHTSA.

None of that is the case with the typical Class A motorhome cab, which is custom built by the RV maker. In addition to few or no airbags, Class As rarely have any kind of anti-collision warning or avoidance system at all. If you’re driving a diesel-pusher, you don’t even have a big, heavy engine block out in front of you to at least absorb some head-on collision impact.

If the lack of these types of safety systems is a deal breaker for you, you may want to compromise a little and look at a large Class C motorhome or a fifth-wheel trailer instead.