As the future nears our presence every day, the age of technology grows, bringing the birth to new products and the growth or expansion of another. Humans have not been in contact with airbags for so long, but because of today’s highly advanced technology systems, they are rapidly increasing in productivity and safety. Since humans have always longed for a more stable environment for transportation devices and units, the safety in a car is no different. The new “Puff” airbags in 2059 will be designed to fit each individual driver and passengers. The initial target is to have a trained robotic system in the car to measure and analyze each person in the car, fitting a specific airbag quality to meet the uppermost potential of safety of everyone’s needs, and accomplishing its lifesaving task.

The “Puff” airbag system will be designed off the interface and physical foundation of the original airbag. The design will have a soft synthetic fibre like sensation, so that it feels as almost if you were hit with a pillow as where the “Puff” comes into play. The objective is to make the automobile a safe atmosphere that can initialize the highest possible safety standard that can save hopefully every life in most car crashes. The “puff” airbag will be available in every transportation device known to mankind, from bikes to airplanes. It is purely invented and grown upon for consumers to become comfortable within their transportation system. The main concept of an airbag is that it “monitors a number of related sensors within the vehicle, including accelerometers, impact sensors, side (door) pressure sensors, wheel speed sensors, gyroscopes, brake pressure sensors, and seat occupancy sensors.” With the new “Puff” system there will be one control sensor, controlled by an automated robot within the vehicle. It will send out impulses to sense what users have occupied the seats, and determine the weight, height, age and any difficulties within muscle movement. The automated system will then calculate each detailed event precisely to the individual, even if there is a baby situated in the vehicle. So no matter what your characteristics may be, the new “Puff” system can adapt to everyone in time to save lives in the event of an impact. There will also be new features added on that it can control the full expansion of the airbag so that it may only expand fully in the event of a head on collision compared to a little bumper fender. This will defiantly save more time and money compared to how much each airbag costs to replace in a car fill up with the specials chemicals. “Costly air bags, expensive electronics, and lightweight body materials are driving up the cost of fixing new cars. Not only do many more parts have to be replaced rather than repaired, but fewer and fewer body shops can afford the special equipment and training required to do the work.”We’re moving closer and closer to the disposable car,” says Dan Bailey, an executive vice president at Carstar, the largest auto-body repair franchise in the United States. (Evarts 2009) Many airbags systems in modern day today contain chemicals that help it deploy and create a quick forceful expansion that can sometimes cause “minor irritations when the occupant remains in the vehicle for many minutes with the windows closed and no ventilation. However, some people with asthma may develop an asthmatic attack from inhaling the dust.”(Wiki, 2009) The whole concept of the “Puff” system is to make it safety conscious! There will be no more harmful chemicals involved, just an automated system that uses the mix of oxygen and carbon dioxide to inflate the airbag in the quickest possible millisecond.

During the past years, airbags have advanced off of just cars to more modern day transportation as motorcycles and jet planes as I explained in the my last techpost about the growth of airbags through time. Through the heightening of airbags the “puff” system amplifies the main concept initiated in my techpost and continues to advance its self into future transportation system. The seatbelt will still not become obsolesce because of this highly advanced system but furthermore improve it to its top potential for safety devices.

The automated impulse system would be engineered from the new automated robotic systems in 2059, it would be a huge step in safety features from my last techpost where I stated airbags have not existed in our world today for a very long time, ­ but there have been similar devices used in the same manner such as the seatbelt. Among the airbags covering the whole entire inside of the vehicle being and becoming triggered by impulse sensors, the device is used to trigger how fatal the impact of the crash may be. From present vehicles in my last tech post “The appropriate level of power is based upon sensor inputs” which is only based off of the cars limited sensory. The new “Puff” system is defiantly an amplification of the one trigger sensory system, the original airbag, to a wide variety impulse sensory system which can be controlled by the automated robotic system. (Bellis, 2009) The future designers have taken into thought about the costs and death rates associated with airbags. The idea is to eventually obsolete airbags in the future but with the constraints that designers still face today and in the future, the seatbelt and airbag still play a major role in safety features.

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Airbags are a type of inflatable cushion used in automobile safety. They serve as a life restraining device the prevent passengers from been thrown into hard objects. An airbag is filled with air by a small explosion inside and white fine powder or smoke sometimes fills the car as the airbag has a hole in the base to allow the gas to escape out. They are built into the steering wheel, door, roof, dashboard or seat of your car that has sensor triggers that automatically tell when to protect you from the impact of the accident.

“In 1952 the airbag was invented by John W. Hetrick and he patented the airbag the following year. It was an invention to help protect his own family using expertise from his naval engineering days” (Wikicars, 2009). Later on the first American invented the real key component to a working airbag, a ball-in-tube sensor for crash detection, in 1968 by Allen Breed. He first introduced “the world’s first electromechanical automotive airbag system” (Bellis, 2009). There had previously been attempts to construct airbags in the 1950’s by the German inventor, Walter Linderer and American inventor John Hedrik. Walters airbag was mostly focused on a compressed air system, discharged by the driver contact or bumper. He later compiled from his research that the compressed air could not fill up the airbags quickly enough in the incident of an accident. Linderer passed on his skills and found research to Hedrik where he later called the airbag a “safety cushion assembly for automotive vehicles” (Bellis, 2009).

Airbags did not arise until the late 1960’s because they require the use of electronic tools and very basic help from computer programming software’s available. The invention of airbags would not have arisen if the automobile was not invented in 1769 by Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot. The development in airbags has become highly expensive to reproduce but have proven to decrease the risk of automobile death rates. In most highly advanced or newer models of cars today there are airbags practically covering the whole entire interior, ranging from the roof to the sides of the windows. The two types of airbags that we have today are frontal and multiple different side-impact ones. The frontal airbags systems are highly advanced compared to the first inventions, as the system automatically determines the amount the driver and passenger airbag will inflate by the appropriate level power. “The appropriate level of power is based upon sensor inputs that can typically detect: 1) occupant size, 2) seat position, 3) seat belt use of the occupant, and 4) crash severity” (Bellis, 2009). .Each brand or make of vehicle has their own type of airbags standards and specific ones that they consider the newest degree of safety rate. The making of airbags was clearly not possible to during the industrial era because of the insufficient lack of technology used to make the airbag. “There have been airbag-like devices for airplanes as early as the 1940s, with the first patents filed in the 1950s” (Wikicars, 2009). Airbag technology is a huge advancement in automobile safety today, starting from the seatbelts which are still today are still the number one way to save lives in accidents. With the required laws that government and law officials have put in place, the automobiles have become safer to each person who acquires one. “In 1970, the state of Victoria, Australia, passed the first law worldwide making seat belt wearing compulsory for drivers and front-seat passengers” (Bellis, 2009). Airbags became mandatory in 1998 to all automobile manufacturers and sellers.

Airbags have not existed in our world today for a very long time, ­ but there have been similar devices used in the same manner such as the seatbelt. The seatbelt was invented in the Industrial Revolution in late 1800’s, by George Cayley. In 1849, Volvo occupied the first working seatbelt in their automobile. They were also introduced into aircraft systems by Adolphe Pegoudm, who was one of the first men to fly upside-down. Although seatbelts were not commonly used on aircrafts until the 1930’s, they are enforced today as an obliged rule. The seatbelt has various system point seatbelts systems, which are used in NASA cars, aerobatic aircraft and child safety seats. The most commonly used seatbelt that is associated with the airbag system in protecting humans in cars is the three-point system seat belt. It is the first modern seat belt we see nowadays in every car as the modern safety device, was introduced by Nils Bohlin’s. It was viewed as the “lap-and-shoulder belt” that was introduced also through Volvo in 1959 (Bellis, 2009). Since the “The Industrial Revolution began an era of per-capita economic growth in capitalist economies. Historians agree that the Industrial Revolution was one of the most important events in history. The most significant inventions had their origins in the Western world, primarily Europe and the United States” (Wikipedia, 2009). The industrial revolution shows that most technology has shaped the world we live in today and will forever be changing. Paulin discusses, “we shape our tools they in turn shape us”, this can be referencing to airbags in that it is a specific technology that has shaped the world we live in today by protecting lives and letting us depend of it (McLuhan, 2009).

The development of airbags has driven the future inventors to become more aware of the future ideas to thrive off of. Today there are various types of airbags other than an in an automobile. Motorcycles now have their own airbag system which was introduced by the UK Transport Research Laboratory in the mid 1970’s. Honda was the first manufacturer to produce a Gold Wing line of motorcycle to have an airbag safety system in 2006. There are many other technologies that have airbags in them today as NASA used an airbag system on their robot “Pathfinder” for a safe and stable landing on Mars. Others include the cockpit of jets and fighter planes.

Today is an ever expanding environment for designers and inventors to rework the ideas of airbag systems and create new more simple but safe airbags for the future. The future of airbags or newly enhanced safety systems awaits development and creation.

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Airbags

Airbags are a life saving technology. Referred to as a personal safety device used to prevent people from serious injuries from hitting hard objects in the event of a collision. There have been a wide variety of different terms and names associated with airbags, starting from “General Motors first bags, in the 1970s, were marketed as the Air Cushion Restraint System. Common terms in North America include Supplemental Restraint System (SRS) and Supplemental Inflatable Restraint (SIR). These terms reflect the airbag system’s nominal role as a supplement to active restraints, i.e., seat belts” (Wikipedia, 2009). In 1967, Dr. Allen S. Breed invented the first airbag that was passed over to Chrysler which would become the first ever vehicle makers to have a fully working airbag in their vehicles.

The airbag can be considered a personal technology, as it is one of the most daily used pieces of technology, saving lives and future generations. With the invention of airbags, seatbelts have become a second piece of safety device making cars more suitable to with stand our daily environments and hazards that we may cross. They are now highly engineered pieces of technology designed to expand or “pop” out in the situation that vehicle’s interior in the occurrence that it is in an accident or crash. The airbag acts as a pillow for people to be braced against it, in the event that they are used. It saves peoples live by preventing people from been thrown by the cars force into hard objects or even glass from shattering on them. An airbag is basically a life saving technology device implanted in vehicles which are high cause of deaths every day.

Fred Mannering and Clifford Winston article Automobile air bags in the 1990’s: Market failure of market efficieny (1995) give an overview how the growth of lifesaving airbags has quickly increased and spread worldwide. The research outlined in the article explains that since Allstate Insurance in 1972, airbags have been promoted and marketed for. Allstate would be the first true company pushing for airbags in vehicles, claiming that they could save lives. From 1988, the airbag market shot up and by 1996, 90% of all cars would have air bags installed in them (Mannering & Winston 1995). Airbags started becoming known throughout countries by the use of passing through neighbour to neighbour, to a call across the world. Once the word that air bags were a life saving device was known, it spread from the knowledge of friends to television advertisements. “Friends provide opportunities for demonstration effects, while television viewing provides opportunities to obtain hard evidence of air bag effectiveness through automakers advertisements and occasional news stories that feature people who actually survived serious automobile crashes because of air bags” (Mannering & Winston 1995). As Fred and Clifford conclude, automakers will always be looking to enhance their products and refine them as. As GM and Mercedes develop side airbags for impact crashes even without the governments consent, because consumers will buy safety devices regardless and will continue too. Consumers needed to be given time to adjust to airbags despite the need of them earlier. Without the proper support of consumers willing to pay for the airbags safety, they would have never been able to spread the word quickly enough for the world’s benefits.

The effects of airbags saving lives can only be a positive effect. Without the help of airbags today, many vehicle accidents would result in the death toll rising. Air bags are one of the most brilliant vehicle safety features aside from the seat belt. But combined everyone can cut their chances of becoming seriously injured in an accident by more than 50% at least. With the use of air bags, many other operating systems and machines could not thrive off this invention to be utilized in many other ways and things. Even jets and motorcycles have shown to have newly developed airbags for a technology that one would have never thought to occupy one. The only negative effects coming out not having the airbag in our society today, is the increase of deaths by vehicles. They would not become a very safe environment to be in if it wasn’t for airbags helping to decrease that factor today.

Overcoming airbags would become a huge deal in the world today if it was possible. For my personal opinion I would believe that airbags will just become further refined and more variations will start to exist in the world, maybe even human airbag suits or airbags on the outsides of cars. The only way to overcome the effects of airbags and the situations it puts one in is to walk, bike or run. Using physical means to get around can cut down on the lack of technology needed to use every day. There are only future solutions and predictions to guess to the technology we have. Airbags will always exist, but not always in the same form or look. Whether it is building off of or adding onto airbags, they will exist in our lives forever.

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