(Video Link) It's not yet safe to play real life Grand Theft Auto, but Volvo's V40 comes with a feature that may reduce pedestrian fatalities during accidents. When a pedestrian impacts the front, an airbag deploys...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/03/11/car-with-an-airbag-for-pedestrians/GM has developed an airbag that inflates from between the front two seats. It's designed to protect the driver and passenger during side impacts which may drive them into each other, or onto the far side of the car....
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/09/30/mid-car-airbag-inflates-to-prevent-passenger-driver-collisions/The future is not entirely unknowable. There are ways to predict what is coming using semi-scientific techniques such as scenario scripting and trend "trigger" analysis. Often, projections can be made by extrapolating fr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/12/10/the-art-of-predicting-products/A research team in Hiroshima, Japan is develop... ...A research team in Hiroshima, Japan is developing airbags that deploy outside, rather than inside, the car.... ...volved in a crash: Dubbed iSAVE (sigh…), the airbags deflate rapidly upon impact, just like convention... ...flate rapidly upon impact, ju...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/09/03/airbags-on-the-outside-of-a-car/(YouTube Link) Ford is developing a seat belt that inflates when the car detects a crash. In The Wall Street Journal, Matthew Dolan writes: Its inflatable rear seat belts spread crash forces over five times more a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/08/inflatable-seat-belt/