Airbags in cars have been shown to reduce traffic deaths of passengers and drivers in recent years, and now similar guarantees could be extended to the outside of vehicles, softening the blow for pedestrians and cyclists hit.
Swedish manufacturers have developed an airbag to inflate under the hood of the vehicle, reducing the impact on any pilots who land on it. Another, at the base of the windscreen, stops a cyclist's head is going through the glass.
The bags are activated when sensors detect that a person goes to the car after being beaten.
The new airbag is an improvement on existing security devices, such as "pop-up" capos.
"In Europe every year more than 10,000 pedestrians and other vulnerable road users killed in a collision with a vehicle, " Times Online quoted.
Ödman mats, a spokesman for Autoliv, the Swedish manufacturer that has designed air bags, the paper said. "Most of them hit his head on the hood or windshield, " he added Ödman.
The new airbag is an improvement on existing security devices, such as "pop-up bonnets, to prevent injury by increasing slightly higher than that are affected, keeping the victim's head away from the engine.
Swedish manufacturers have developed an airbag to inflate under the hood of the vehicle, reducing the impact on any pilots who land on it. Another, at the base of the windscreen, stops a cyclist's head is going through the glass.
The bags are activated when sensors detect that a person goes to the car after being beaten.
The new airbag is an improvement on existing security devices, such as "pop-up" capos.
"In Europe every year more than 10,000 pedestrians and other vulnerable road users killed in a collision with a vehicle, " Times Online quoted.
Ödman mats, a spokesman for Autoliv, the Swedish manufacturer that has designed air bags, the paper said. "Most of them hit his head on the hood or windshield, " he added Ödman.
The new airbag is an improvement on existing security devices, such as "pop-up bonnets, to prevent injury by increasing slightly higher than that are affected, keeping the victim's head away from the engine.
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