{"id":12690,"date":"2015-06-25T09:00:55","date_gmt":"2015-06-25T13:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=12690"},"modified":"2015-06-25T08:01:14","modified_gmt":"2015-06-25T12:01:14","slug":"car-safety-features-that-never-caught-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2015\/car-safety-features-that-never-caught-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Car Safety Features That Never Caught On"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/062515_1158_CarSafetyFe1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"641\" height=\"361\" \/><\/p>\n<p>From seat bels to crumple zones, cars have included an increasing number of safety features over time. But the arc of history is never a single, unbroken line, and Aaron Brown decided to take a look at some safety ideas that didn&#8217;t go anywhere:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pedestrian airbags (pictured). The idea was that a driver could hit a passerby and then go their merry way without losing too much sleep.<\/li>\n<li>Rocket brakes. These were jet rockets built into the hood of the car. If a vehicle had to brake in an emergency the rockets could be activated to generate reverse thrust.<\/li>\n<li>Headlight wipers. While popular in Europe they never caught on in the United States.<\/li>\n<li>Heartbeat sensor. This feature, announced by Volvo in 2007, would let a driver know before they got into the car, if somebody was already in there. The idea seemed to be that it would be a check against hidden axe murderers.<\/li>\n<li>Safety windshields. These were for those who weren&#8217;t wearing seatbelts and could possibly be ejected from the car. Instead of shattering the front windshield was designed to pop out.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The full list of ten is fascinating, and includes pictures and Youtube links so you can judge the abandoned safety features for yourself. Find it <a href=\"http:\/\/jalopnik.com\/the-ten-weirdest-safety-features-that-never-caught-on-1713504103\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/jalopnik.com\/the-ten-weirdest-safety-features-that-never-caught-on-1713504103\">Jalopnik<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From seat bels to crumple zones, cars have included an increasing number of safety features over time. But the arc of history is never a single, unbroken line, and Aaron Brown decided to take a look at some safety ideas that didn&#8217;t go anywhere: Pedestrian airbags (pictured). The idea was that a driver could hit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/062515_1158_CarSafetyFe1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12690"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12692,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12690\/revisions\/12692"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}