[LMB] Airbags OT: was Dark Beta is slipping under the radar

[Peter Newman]

Why can't airbags have a weight sensor? The more the
person sitting in the seat weighs, than the faster and
harder they deploy? This would make them safer for heavy
and light people. You could probably even have use radar
or sonar so the airbag would know the exact size and
location of the person in the seat. The data goes to
the airbags software (of course airbags with software
would cost more) and the bag then knows how to best deploy.
There would probably be a time lag involved, since you don't
want the bag to stop and think about where you are for
even a hundredth of a second before deploying, so it should
probably always be calculating this and then automatically
deploy with its last calculated figure.

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Peter Newman         pnewman at gci.net