{"id":83341,"date":"2018-10-06T19:02:51","date_gmt":"2018-10-07T02:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/the-insane-physics-of-airbags"},"modified":"2018-10-07T17:00:44","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T00:00:44","slug":"the-insane-physics-of-airbags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/the-insane-physics-of-airbags","title":{"rendered":"The Insane Physics of Airbags"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-insane-physics-of-airbags.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I can imagine the meeting: A dozen engineers are gathered around a conference table to discuss automobile safety. How can we protect people during a car crash? We have already added seat belts and crumple zones to cars. Is there anything else we can include? One attendee reluctantly raises their hand with a suggestion: \u201cHow about we add an explosive in the steering wheel?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearscience.com\/2018\/10\/06\/the_insane_physics_of_airbags_283101.html\">https:\/\/www.realclearscience.com\/2018\/10\/06\/the_insane_physi...83101.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can imagine the meeting: A dozen engineers are gathered around a conference table to discuss automobile safety. How can we protect people during a car crash? We have already added seat belts and crumple zones to cars. Is there anything else we can include? One attendee reluctantly raises their hand with a suggestion: \u201cHow [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83384,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83341\/revisions\/83384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}