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Title: Just seen an advert for the first ever pedestrian airbag
Post by: Sam on 12 September 2012, 22:20
Well this is gonna be fun to replace, I assume that everyone remembers the insane price of replacing the GTR pedestrian bonnet poppers?

http://carscoop.blogspot.com/2012/05/volvo-details-new-v40-hatchback.html
Title: Re: Just seen an advert for the first ever pedestrian airbag
Post by: Mitching on 12 September 2012, 22:37
If I ever get run over I'd like it to be by a Volvo V40.
Title: Re: Just seen an advert for the first ever pedestrian airbag
Post by: Steve_PD on 12 September 2012, 22:44
Good news for me, as I work at a factory which produces airbag nylon :smiley:
Title: Re: Just seen an advert for the first ever pedestrian airbag
Post by: R32UK on 13 September 2012, 09:35
going to be fun spotting volvos on a night out
Title: Re: Just seen an advert for the first ever pedestrian airbag
Post by: mcgee9t2 on 14 September 2012, 08:49
Anyone else got  the image of someone getting bumped at low speeds then a huge airbag going off and them flying about fourty yards down the road :D
Title: Re: Just seen an advert for the first ever pedestrian airbag
Post by: Mitching on 14 September 2012, 10:16
Anyone else got  the image of someone getting bumped at low speeds then a huge airbag going off and them flying about fourty yards down the road :D
I have now!  :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
Title: Re: Just seen an advert for the first ever pedestrian airbag
Post by: shepgti on 14 September 2012, 11:03
what happens when kids realise if you kick a ball at the front of a new v40 doing 20kph a cool airbag thing pops out.
Title: Re: Just seen an advert for the first ever pedestrian airbag
Post by: dTEA on 20 September 2012, 09:11
Anyone else got  the image of someone getting bumped at low speeds then a huge airbag going off and them flying about fourty yards down the road :D
I have now!  :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
nope...cant find
Title: Re: Just seen an advert for the first ever pedestrian airbag
Post by: ScottA on 20 September 2012, 09:15
So it would turn something that could be a small parking bump into a MAHOOSIVE fooking problem as there's a HUUUUGGE air bag in front of your windscreen so you can no longer drive it. Great!  :rolleyes:

"Volvo says the system is active at speeds between 20km/h and 50 km/h (12mph and 31mph)."  That's a good idea, so if you're speeding in a 30 zone then it won't go off  :laugh: because no one ever speeds  :rolleyes:
Title: Re: Just seen an advert for the first ever pedestrian airbag
Post by: ScottA on 20 September 2012, 09:16
Anyone else got  the image of someone getting bumped at low speeds then a huge airbag going off and them flying about fourty yards down the road :D
I have now!  :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
nope...cant find

In your head my friend, imagining it, not on Google Images  :laugh:
Title: Re: Just seen an advert for the first ever pedestrian airbag
Post by: dTEA on 20 September 2012, 09:29
Anyone else got  the image of someone getting bumped at low speeds then a huge airbag going off and them flying about fourty yards down the road :D
I have now!  :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
nope...cant find
Bloody hell...just woke up :grin:

In your head my friend, imagining it, not on Google Images  :laugh:
Title: Re: Just seen an advert for the first ever pedestrian airbag
Post by: hobnobbob on 20 September 2012, 16:37
Daft idea in my eyes but you know, if people are stupid enough to get in the way then now they are safer and the world will be a more stupid place.  :grin:
Title: Re: Just seen an advert for the first ever pedestrian airbag
Post by: Gti_Jamo on 20 September 2012, 18:33
So your driving down a country road and a deer runs out in front of you and you hit it....you then veer off the road into a tree because volvo have allowed a massive pillow to deploy on your windscreen and impair your view. Although you and the deer will more than likely survive.  :grin: