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In the United States, only 1 percent of trips are made by bicycle
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In the Netherlands, which has only 1/18 of the U.S.’s population, that number is close to 26 percent
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With so many bikes on the road, Dutch company
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is working on a car airbag that deploys outside the vehicle to reduce bicyclist injuries
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Upon impact, the airbag, housed under the hood, inflates to cover parts of the windshield and cushion a biker
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In tests last November, engineers drove a track-guided car into a dummy on a bike at 25 mph, the average speed of a crash
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Accelerometers in the dummy’s head and neck and pressure sensors embedded in its limbs indicated brain damage and broken bones
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Dummies in collisions with the airbag had fewer and less severe injuries up to 45 percent of the time
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