Toyota has unveiled a new airbag system designed to protect rear passengers traveling in small vehicles. The rear window curtain airbag is said to be a world’s first — shielding the occupants’ heads the event of a rear-end collision. The technology will be featured in the new iQ ultra-compact four-seater, with the potential to the car’s rear passenger head protection performance.
The airbag deploys from the roof lining above the rear window in the form of a curtain-like barrier. Together with the headrests, the airbag minimizes impact to the head from a colliding vehicle or parts of the hit vehicle.
“Toyota has continued to actively develop and make available its collision safety technologies,” the company said in a statement to the press. “Resulting in such achievements as the swift market introduction of SRS curtain shield and knee airbags to enable its vehicles to better respond to a greater range of accidents.”
09/30, 8:08 PM
posted by:
beatusmongous
Oh, now THAT is way cool!
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Wait, sort of…
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Now you bloody the front, side AND back of your head in a crash. Nice.
09/30, 8:42 PM
posted by:
johnnycanuck
I’m still waiting for the genitalia airbag, just so long as it doesn’t go off when you do.
09/30, 9:40 PM
posted by:
elviososa
In the future, the whole car would have fome like air-bag to protect the people in the cars. Just like the movie
09/30, 10:20 PM
posted by:
howsmydriving
Kudos to Toyota. This feature adds costs that Toyota will never recoup, and they should be commended for their attention to passenger safety.
09/30, 11:35 PM
posted by:
maxcar
reverse whiplash.
10/01, 12:27 AM
posted by:
beatusmongous
Actually, I do think it’s pretty cool, especially in the IQ. I’d love to see Smart incorporate it, as well, as I worry mostly about a rear end collision if I do end up with a Smart.
But that picture has been Photoshopped all to hell.
10/01, 8:08 AM
posted by:
Need more oil for GM
Yet another thing for Toyota to recall. They can’t even build an engine that runs past 20 thousand miles, now there going to fuk around with passenger safety equipment? There’s a recipe for disaster.
Oh well, Toyota will be doing America a huge favor by putting these ignorant fuks who buy their POS cars behind the wheel of one of their “great cars” only to kill them with faulty safety equipment. Awesome!
10/01, 9:44 AM
posted by:
FRANKE_D
Come on need more oil, you can’t be that stupid can you? I’ll be happy when GM lays you off, maybe then you will stop making stupid comments on everything that is not GM.
10/01, 10:21 AM
posted by:
MercMark
Microcars should come with embalming fluid injection system and auto black paint window spray system.
Then after an accident just drop the whole car in a grave and you’re all done.
10/01, 11:17 AM
posted by:
vincentvegas74
I really don’t see the point in this airbag…..isn’t that what active headrests are for……and if a big peice of metal is coming thru from the vehicle behind….do you really think an airbag is going to stop it??
10/01, 11:36 AM
posted by:
JoshyLofty
i agreee with you vincent, i think this is a stupid idea.
elviososa, that movie is called “demolition man” – i have thought to myself several times “i wonder when we’ll see the first restraint system like that” cuz i’m sure its comin.
10/01, 12:59 PM
posted by:
vincentvegas74
That was a pretty crazy view of the future……..all the cars are electric….which we would love to have….and all the restaurants were Taco Bell…….and talk about how they have sex in that movie…crazy.
Wonder what of those things will happen first….Be Well
10/01, 6:34 PM
posted by:
autonut
Those airbags are not for US market. There is is only one micro car in our market – Smart and it is not from Toyota. Airbags are for Europe and Asia, where cars (and trucks) are smaller. It definitely will not help if Hummer will rear end you, but except in US they are so few and far apart, that they do not posses statistical danger.
10/01, 7:10 PM
posted by:
bigp
about time because i drive an geo and i was hit by an small truck, luckly it was small.any taller it would have cruched it coming inside .. thank you
10/01, 9:00 PM
posted by:
RTT10
NOBODY LIKES YOU!!!!! get a ****ing life need more oil for gm.. learn to drive maybe u will be able to tell the diff between ur gm and real cars
10/01, 10:18 PM
posted by:
monte
RTT10, he may be gm biased, but you seem to be the same in the opposite direction. Thats no better.
10/01, 10:21 PM
posted by:
monte
As for the article, I won’t ever own a car that small, and I don’t really see myself riding in the back of one, It’s not really that creative either. Here’s an easy plan for any one “why don’t we just keep looking for more places to put airbags” This has been going on since the begining of bags, nothing new here.
10/02, 12:49 AM
posted by:
02WRXPSM
My co-worker is on her 2nd Smart car; her first one was hit by an SUV at 45 MPH, and she walked away without a scratch, just a little glass in her hair. The dealership bought the car back from her, to send it back to Mercedes for study, and then sold her another one (with the difference of options I think she paid $2000.00). I would not be caught dead driving one, but don’t discount the safety of the car — engineering matters more than mass.
10/02, 1:01 AM
posted by:
sharpie
Big huge metal may be coming from the back, but hopefully, the small car isn’t planted like a lamp pole. In that case, the car would get bounced off a little and with the rear airbag, it should minimize injury.
Hey big huge metal can come from all directions, front and side and back, so according to you, vincent, we should buy a car with no airbag then.
10/02, 12:00 PM
posted by:
Need more oil for GM
I wouldn’t put my family in an unsafe car like a Toyota. I feel much more comfortable putting the in my DTS Performance
10/02, 5:34 PM
posted by:
monte
What I would like to see is cars being made safer without adding more weight. This weight thing is getting out of control industry wide