{"id":256993132,"date":"2013-02-22T10:58:52","date_gmt":"2013-02-22T10:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=256993132"},"modified":"2013-02-22T10:58:52","modified_gmt":"2013-02-22T10:58:52","slug":"external-airbags-designed-to-save-cyclists-pedestrians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=256993132","title":{"rendered":"External Airbags Designed to Save Cyclists, Pedestrians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BY ALEXANDER GEORGE, Wired<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<br \/>\nIn the Netherlands, where bicycles are ubiquitous, approximately 200 cyclists (and 70 pedestrians) are killed each year after being struck by a car. If a car is going faster than 25 mph \u2013 the average speed of an accident in the Netherlands \u2013 a collision with a bicyclist is usually fatal, and helmets don\u2019t help much during an impact of 12 mph or greater.<\/p>\n<p>TNO looked at every detail of a cycle crash, specifically at the impact points at a vehicle\u2019s front end, concluding that automatic braking and external airbags positions at the bottom of the windshield would reduce the severity of crashes dramatically.<br \/>\n&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The 2013 V40 already has this feature, but the technology won\u2019t be making its way across the Atlantic.<br \/>\n&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/autopia\/2013\/02\/external-airbags\/\">https:\/\/www.wired.com\/autopia\/2013\/02\/external-airbags\/<\/a><br \/>\n**************************************************************<br \/>\n[B&#8217; Spokes: Too many times American &quot;safety&quot; philosophy impresses me as so self-centered as if they were saying &quot;We need to prevent people from committing suicide when driving but if they want to commit murder that&#8217;s OK.&quot;]   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY ALEXANDER GEORGE, Wired &#8230; In the Netherlands, where bicycles are ubiquitous, approximately 200 cyclists (and 70 pedestrians) are killed each year after being struck by a car. If a car is going faster than 25 mph \u2013 the average speed of an accident in the Netherlands \u2013 a collision with a bicyclist is usually &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=256993132\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;External Airbags Designed to Save Cyclists, Pedestrians&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-256993132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-you-will-not-see-in-maryland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256993132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=256993132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256993132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=256993132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=256993132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=256993132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}