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Non-Tech : Simula (SMU) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: charlie sawyer who wrote (1289)	8/16/1998 9:42:00 PM
From: JB	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1671

Bags, bags, bags...........here's an excerpt from R&T Online. Thank God I'm a motorcyclist! Who the hell wants to drive a bag on wheels? ;-) First it was the steering wheel airbag. Then the passenger-side bag. Then the side-impact bag. Followed, naturally, by the knee-bag and bags for rear-seat passengers. Then there's BMW's inflating head restraint. Now Siemens AG has developed the world's first foot airbag designed to decrease lower leg injuries in collisions. The bag inflates from the floor, pushing the feet up and out of the way of the pedals. Siemens developed the foot airbag in response to European crash standards that take effect later this year calling for lower-leg protection. The bags are expected to appear on two European luxury cars to be named later. -MDL JB (SMU Long, should've gone short!)

To: charlie sawyer who wrote (1289)	8/18/1998 10:59:00 PM
From: Keith R.	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1671

I spoke with a high level person at NHTSA re: the Volvo product. They had seen the product and thought it wouldn't be ready until at least the middle of the 1999 model yr. This engineer thought that the product may have been a Simula product because (and I'm paraphrasing) it was clear to him that "the product utilized much of Simula's technology." He was unaware of the legal problems which SMU and Autoliv are currently having. I wonder, but don't know for certain if this may be an Autoliv product using you-know-who's technology. Any thoughts? Regards, Keith