05-24-2014, 07:55 PM
I've always wondered what I'd do if on coming car made a left turn in front of me or pulled out from a side road at the last moment with almost no reaction time left...I always thought I delay the injury/death by just jumping straight up as hard as I could (the advantage of having your feet under you like the CB1100 vs crusiers being out front).
Then I thought well unless the collision is with a tall vehicle like a semi or bus, I'd at least fly over top and the collision won't kill me but the landing sure could.
Now whether I'd have the gumption to react that way could only be tested with a real situation which I hope never happens, but like jumping out of the 911 buildings, if you are in a frying pan, you'd might just jump out of it and not care where you were jumping to.
But in my sleep tonight I had a brilliant idea.
What if you had a backpack that would deploy a rocket propelled parachute or inflate some helium type balloon that would be triggered somehow like a fighter jet pilot ejection or like a car air bag?
It could pull you off the bike and take you just high enough, say 20-30 feet and maybe even stop your forward motion a bit...unless you were under a bridge or in a tunnel, it would beat a direct hit with the side of a car?
The trigger would be the hardest part, not too soon, not too late.
Everyone thought air bags were an crazy idea too until they figured out how to deploy them in a fraction of a second. I've heard fighter pilots can actually eject sitting on the ground and they will go high enough for their parachutes to open and work.
I know there are a bunch of engineers and inventors on this site....your task jim (mission impossible music playing) if you decide to accept it has been give to you ;-)
My other ideas were to have an inflatable ball inflate around you, but I think this is more doable. I know there are some inflatable devices out there but none that would completely remove the rider from any collision
Then I thought well unless the collision is with a tall vehicle like a semi or bus, I'd at least fly over top and the collision won't kill me but the landing sure could.
Now whether I'd have the gumption to react that way could only be tested with a real situation which I hope never happens, but like jumping out of the 911 buildings, if you are in a frying pan, you'd might just jump out of it and not care where you were jumping to.
But in my sleep tonight I had a brilliant idea.
What if you had a backpack that would deploy a rocket propelled parachute or inflate some helium type balloon that would be triggered somehow like a fighter jet pilot ejection or like a car air bag?
It could pull you off the bike and take you just high enough, say 20-30 feet and maybe even stop your forward motion a bit...unless you were under a bridge or in a tunnel, it would beat a direct hit with the side of a car?
The trigger would be the hardest part, not too soon, not too late.
Everyone thought air bags were an crazy idea too until they figured out how to deploy them in a fraction of a second. I've heard fighter pilots can actually eject sitting on the ground and they will go high enough for their parachutes to open and work.
I know there are a bunch of engineers and inventors on this site....your task jim (mission impossible music playing) if you decide to accept it has been give to you ;-)
My other ideas were to have an inflatable ball inflate around you, but I think this is more doable. I know there are some inflatable devices out there but none that would completely remove the rider from any collision