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Honda's new motorcycle airbag system, unveiled Sept. 8, 2005, includes crash sensors that monitor acceleration changes and an electronic control unit that calculates when a collision is occuring. The system will be installed in Honda's new Gold Wing motorcycles and is scheduled for release in the U.S. in the late spring of 2006.



Honda executives said their airbag works best in a straight-angle frontal collision up to 31 mph. I haven't looked at the stats, but I would think most accidents happen over 31 mph and at high speeds it might hurt you more than help. Good thing it is on the Gold Wing Motorcycles and not sport bikes.

I don't know much about motorcycles, but isn't the rider thrown off the bike usually anyway? I don't see an airbag on the ground...

haha nice post, amy

That's about as good as giving airline passengers parachutes. It would only have a chance of working in a head on collision situation and even then the rider would likely be pitched over it. If it ever went off by accident, that rider is TOAST!

haha can you imagine it falsely deploying during normal riding, hitting the rider and throwing him off the back?

Lawsuit right there....

Amy wrote:I don't know much about motorcycles, but isn't the rider thrown off the bike usually anyway? I don't see an airbag on the ground...

Ooh, I know! They need to install airbags in the Rider! Gonna go get to work on this right now for the good of humanity....

I'm a biker. did anyone else noticed how geeky the dress looks like (ex: shoes)?

not a biker or a genius with enertia but wouldnt the speed of the bike just make you hit that thing and then send you up into the air, which in case may actually be worse than just crashing into something