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Comments on: Toyota develops world's first rear-window airbag

Toyota Motor announced Tuesday that it has developed the world's first rear-window curtain shield airbag to protect rear passengers' heads in the event of a rear-end collision.

by ErnieTheBear September 30, 2008 2:22 PM PDT
Remember in "Demolition Man", when Stallone wrecks the cop car and the whole interior instantly fills with expanding "Security foam"? Don't laugh. It's only a matter of time. Failing that, we'll just all be driving cars that actually *are* airbags. Just a giant, pre-inflated airbag, with some wheels and a tiny little motor.
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by the_iceman October 1, 2008 10:39 AM PDT
anything extra is helpful to prevent injury/death in auto collisions, nice work Toyota!
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by VSSMGuy October 1, 2008 3:12 PM PDT
When you build cars that are rolling death traps, you have to go to rediculous measures to try and reduce the carnage!
Whay to go Toyota. What a hunk of s@@t!
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by trprhite October 1, 2008 8:29 PM PDT
I'm a police officer so I see vehicle crashes nearly every day at work. My suggestion -- make cars where the airbags actually "WORK." In my experience, 9 times out of 10 when the airbag should have deployed, heavy front end damage for instance, the airbag never deployed. We don't need rear airbags, just ones that deploy when they are 'supposed' to according to manufacturers specs.
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by advancedsrs August 10, 2009 10:17 AM PDT
If the rear airbag is added this means an additional airbag module will be required. More information is available on module reset at http://www.safetyairbags.com/install-airbags.html
This site explains the inner workings of an airbag module in detail.
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