No explanation necessary:
I love this bit:
Also just in from the Paris bureau:
Courtesy Futility Closet:
As reported to the Paris bureau, Dainese, the innovative and very high-end Italian motosports protective gear giant, actually made this reality – sort of. It’s an airbag vest equipped with accelerometers which deploy the airbag around the torso.\
According to their website:
D-AIR® STREET PROTECTION
The force on the back is reduced by 82% (compared with the performance of a level 2 back protector)
D-air® street is triggered in the event of:
– Impacts.
– Slides.
For rider and pillion
D-air® Street has a total deployment time of 45 milliseconds.
Here’s the side view as it begins inflating:
And inflated:
Here it’s deployed in a racing application (where they were developed):
Walk of shame (kidding, kidding):
You have to see this video to believe it. Note the soundtrack from DVD menu on the animated Matrix trilogy companion, Animatrix
racing to the red light 
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