Toyota Develops World's First Rear Window Airbag!

Hi friends!!....Toyota is known for the production of high-safety vehicles that regularly score five stars at tests conducted by independent organisations like Euro NCAP. Not only do the larger vehicles benefit from its safety programmes, but smaller compact ones do too, like the Yaris for instance with its total of up to six airbags. Toyota will now add on this number by launching what is to be, as far as Toyota’s own research goes, the first ever rear window curtain airbag. It uses a normal Supplemental Restraint System (SRS) to protect rear passengers’ heads if and when benders happen to come from the backside.
The system will be used in the upcoming iQ ultra-compact four-seater city car and will help minimise the severity of head injuries for rear passengers, working together with the headrests.

hope this topic has not been disscussed!!lolz!

No it hasn't - no thread atleast; to the best of my knowledge. 

 

(this thread is NOT closed for further discussions) LOL

 

Jokes apart, thanks for the wonderful info.

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Lolz!Thanks Pankaj!

WOW !!!!....awesome stuff dis is man !!!...wud luv to c how it works...(umm...nono not experience.. just seeing it as a demo or sumthin!!!...)

Had seen the launch write ups and wondered then how effective this system would be?

Might be marketing even-as even Volvo must have thought about such a system much before.

Volvo did ???...seriously ??........

bt watever......whoever launches it 1st....... he becomes d trendsetter !

Karan my point is that-i dont see how this will work!!

If it did then companies like the Volvo's and mercs would have installed it as it is not a new technology-just a different application,

hmmm.....

well.... its gonna cum in handy uncase ders a crash frm behind.......instead of frm d front...afterall..... a crash can happen frm ne direction.....

i think as i sed b4...we'll hav to taker a look at sum visual demo's of how dis system at the back wud work

Well Karan the airbags act as cushions for the body against other objects.

In a crash from behind the only major contact that the head makes with the car is the headrest(thats why they are installed in all cars in the first place)-in this system i cant see how the bags surrounding the headrest will give protection to the head.

This will work if the airbag will come bursting the head rest and not surrounding it-but this that design will not prevent whiplash injury.

Only time will tell!