Airbags are a type of automobile safety restraint like seatbelts. They are gas-inflated cushions built into the steering wheel, dashboard, door, roof, or seat of your car that use a crash sensor to trigger a rapid expansion to protect you from the impact of an accident. Allen Breed - History of the Airbag Allen Breed was holding the patent (U.S. #5,071,161) to the only crash sensing technology available at ...

We've all seen people of all ages do stupid things on the road, but statistics say that teenagers are still the most accident-prone. Enter the new Ford MyKey feature. Ford realizes that parents like to have a bit more control over what their children do while on the road, and while it may make you look like the least cool parent on the block, it may save you from unspeakable tragedy. The new MyKey feature, ...

Managing the grid - maintaining a balance between supply and demand that keeps the system at its required frequency of 60 Hz - is a bit of a delicate dance. The widespread adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) could make the task even more challenging, but a Vancouver, Canada, company is pushing forward with technology that might actually take advantage of EVs to enhance grid stability. Rapid Electric Vehicle ...

Watch out, Hawaii Five-O, here comes H2I-the Hawaii Hydrogen Initiative, a plan aimed at integrating hydrogen as an essential building block for Hawaii’s sustainable energy future. The plan is involves ten companies, agencies and universities that have joined an initiative between The Gas Company (TGC), one of Hawaii’s major utilities,and General Motors to make hydrogen-powered vehicles and a fueling infras ...

Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov is best known to Americans as the owner of the New Jersey Nets NBA franchise. In Russia, however, he is reportedly the second richest individual in the nation and the 39th richest person in the world. But now he is also the latest to get into the green car game, unveiling in Moscow three hybrid prototypes from his E-Mobile project. E-Auto, the name of the group behind t ...

This is a new kind of safety belt that incorporates an air bag and you’ll soon see it in Toyota’s Lexus LFA luxury sports cars. When inflates in a collision, the seat belt will offer you a more safer protection so that you can be kept away from high risks of hurt. ...

The first generation of electric cars have yet to truly hit the marketplace, but Toyota is already at work on next-gen electric car batteries - along with other "eco-car" development strategies. This includes a phased roll-outs of hybrids, electric vehicles, plug-in hybrids and a hydrogen fuel-cell vehicle over the next five years. Details of this plan were recently released, and include 11 Toyota hybrid mo ...

Mercedes-Benz is taking "green" technology to a whole new level. No, we’re not talking about hybrids or low fuel emission models, we’re talking about a brand new concept in automotive design. Unveiled at the Los Angeles Design Challenge, the Mercedes BIOME is the first concept car to move away from the heavy metal production line and move into the lab. That’s right. This car is grown in a laboratory. Merced ...

Striving for a new breakthrough in technological innovation, the Energy Return Wheel designed by Brian Russell is an airless tire that can roll flat, save energy and most importantly never get flat during the moving. In that case, the number of traffic jam or traffic accident resulted by a flat tire would be greatly reduced. ...

3500 BC Fixed wheels on carts are invented - the first wheeled vehicles in history. Other early wheeled vehicles include the chariot. 3500 BC River boats are invented - ships with oars 2000 BC Horses are domesticated and used for transportation. 181-234 The wheelbarrow is invented. 770 Iron horseshoes improve transportation by horse 1492 Leonardo da Vinci first to seriously theorize about flying machines - ...