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It is a fact that airbags inside automobiles have helped save thousands of drivers and their passengers from serious injury or even death. But what about collisions that involve cars and pedestrians or even cars and motorcycles? Airbags inside the car may protect the driver, but not the poor souls outside the vehicle. One Swedish company, however, is hoping to change all that.

Autoliv Inc. is the creator of new airbag system to protect people outside the car from serious injuries during accidents. The system operates when a front side impact is detected and inflates an airbag that covers most of the car’s hood and some of the front windshield. This would of course lessen the impact of persons outside striking the car’s hood and possibly protect them from crashing through the front windshield of the car.

Estimates from the Dutch Cycling Federation say that perhaps 60 lives and over 1500 serious injuries could be prevented if an external airbag system like that created by Autoliv is used. With a useful airbag system like this, hopefully it will find its way into all new cars around the world in the near future.

Read more at InventorSpot.

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