Comments on: Toyota introduces rear window curtain airbag for microcars

By: monte

monte — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 21:34:40 +0000

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

By: Need more oil for GM

Need more oil for GM — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 16:00:30 +0000

I wouldn’t put my family in an unsafe car like a Toyota. I feel much more comfortable putting the in my DTS Performance

By: sharpie

sharpie — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 05:01:36 +0000

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.

By: 02WRXPSM

02WRXPSM — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 04:49:02 +0000

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.

By: monte

monte — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 02:21:49 +0000

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.

By: monte

monte — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 02:18:30 +0000

RTT10, he may be gm biased, but you seem to be the same in the opposite direction. Thats no better.

By: RTT10

RTT10 — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 01:00:40 +0000

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

By: bigp

bigp — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 23:10:25 +0000

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

By: autonut

autonut — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 22:34:21 +0000

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.

By: vincentvegas74

vincentvegas74 — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 16:59:42 +0000

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

By: JoshyLofty

JoshyLofty — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 15:36:56 +0000

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.

By: vincentvegas74

vincentvegas74 — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 15:17:19 +0000

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??

By: MercMark

MercMark — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 14:21:29 +0000

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.

By: FRANKE_D

FRANKE_D — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:44:19 +0000

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.

By: Need more oil for GM

Need more oil for GM — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 12:08:17 +0000

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!

By: beatusmongous

beatusmongous — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 04:27:43 +0000

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.

By: maxcar

maxcar — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 03:35:58 +0000

reverse whiplash.

By: howsmydriving

howsmydriving — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 02:20:02 +0000

Kudos to Toyota. This feature adds costs that Toyota will never recoup, and they should be commended for their attention to passenger safety.

By: elviososa

elviososa — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 01:40:53 +0000

In the future, the whole car would have fome like air-bag to protect the people in the cars. Just like the movie

By: johnnycanuck

johnnycanuck — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:42:04 +0000

I’m still waiting for the genitalia airbag, just so long as it doesn’t go off when you do.

By: beatusmongous

beatusmongous — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:08:09 +0000

Oh, now THAT is way cool!

Wait, sort of…

Now you bloody the front, side AND back of your head in a crash. Nice.