Use visual and speed sensors to deploy the airbags before the crash-- theircompetitor, Mar 31 2005 Shameless promotion Audio_20Airbags [normzone, Mar 12 2006] List of key innovations in driving, including airbags that are external to the car and deploy ahead of the crash http://www.cnn.com/...-future-of-driving/ [theircompetitor, Apr 02 2014] Related Standardized_20bumper_20cars [Voice, Apr 02 2014] Airbags on the front bumper of the car would be nice. Would make accidents much more quiet.
You could have them outside the doors of the car, too.-- phundug, Mar 31 2005 Premature deflation plagues us all in different ways.-- bristolz, Mar 31 2005 I simply can't let this thread die on such a down note-- theircompetitor, Apr 01 2005 What fun to strike pedestrians, have the bags pop, and launch the hapless people into the fowerbeds.-- PSU_ME, Mar 12 2006 So, I didn't claim that these would be external, necessarily, but it looks like deploying airbags before the crash is actually being baked-- theircompetitor, Apr 02 2014 On 2/19/2006, [PSU_ME] created an account, proceeded to annotate or link on five ideas, and then was bounced out of the Halfbakery into the "fowerbeds" by an airbag and never heard from again.-- normzone, Apr 02 2014 random, halfbakery