I was reading on Yahoo and came across this post which I thought was pretty interesting Swedes develop invisible bike helmet - Yahoo Autos
I thought it was really cool but my thoughts to things that will hamper it is cost and whether it can only be used once? It's basically an airbag for your head and in cars airbags can only be deployed once and then a new airbag has to be fitted to the vehicle. So for over $500 if you can only use it once that is going to be a big problem on the market. In a car the cost of the airbags are rolled into the cost of the vehicle overall plus with the millions of cars produced each day the cost of the airbags are probably substantially less. So I think if they can somehow get the cost of this subsidized by either the helmet makers or the bicycle makers it will do a lot better. That will be an uphill battle though I think because the helmets of today are so inexpensive to make compared to this why would any manufacturer stop making it in favor of this. I like it though and good on them for coming up with the idea I really hope it does take hold somehow.
I thought it was really cool but my thoughts to things that will hamper it is cost and whether it can only be used once? It's basically an airbag for your head and in cars airbags can only be deployed once and then a new airbag has to be fitted to the vehicle. So for over $500 if you can only use it once that is going to be a big problem on the market. In a car the cost of the airbags are rolled into the cost of the vehicle overall plus with the millions of cars produced each day the cost of the airbags are probably substantially less. So I think if they can somehow get the cost of this subsidized by either the helmet makers or the bicycle makers it will do a lot better. That will be an uphill battle though I think because the helmets of today are so inexpensive to make compared to this why would any manufacturer stop making it in favor of this. I like it though and good on them for coming up with the idea I really hope it does take hold somehow.