Air bags for cycle rider

[acoder]

I was over at the Dainese site drooling over their jackets and ran across some R&D they are doing with air bags in jackets.....

http://www.dainese.com/eng/d-air.asp

looks like a lifevest, but whatever works.

[Dom]

That's cool.  They need to be 5 times that size though.  We need an airbag that inflates a giant spherical balloon around you like the one the kid had in the movie about the boy in the bubble.  And when you hit something you bounce around like a pinball.  People would probably start deploying them for fun.  Jumping off things, out of things, like the backs of moving pickup trucks.  

[Aussie GS]

Also check out www.hit-air.com I was wondering about one of those for my next jacket. Ps wish I knew how to put the links in like the rest of you do  :dunno:  computer dummy here Im afraid  

[Cal Price]

Some figures just published in UK suggest that bikers are 30 times more likely to be killed than car drivers and four times more than cyclists. This has come to light as an MP is trying to get some legislation through about pillion passengers, fitting of helmets and foot rests, this after an eight year old pillion passenger was killed after the bike was hit by a car. The boy was on one of his father's friend's bike without the parents knowledge so parental consent may be a legislative issue as well.

With that sort of thing it's easy to see how such things as air-bag jackets would find a market.

[skrap1r0n]

you know, thats pretty cool. I wonder if it could inflate if worn UNDER a jacket?

I was also thinking, if you get thrown from a bike, what is the best position to be in when you hit the ground? Arms and legs flailing has to be a bad thing, so I wonder if theres some way you could develop something that would pull the rider into a tuck?