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From: dob@ihmax.UUCP (dan o'brien)
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Subject: Re: The story about the 85 mph speedometers
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Date: Sat, 18-Jan-86 12:41:50 EST
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> > Let me think, isn't Joan Clayworth the person that ...
> > ... 
> > I hear that she is now proposing roll bars and seatbelts!!:-)
> > Anybody for airbags!!???!!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! 
> 
> As a matter of fact, I remember reading something about airbags for bikes,
> back around '79 or '80.  A safety expert in England seriously proposed
> an airbag to be built into the front of a motorcycle jacket.  The thing
                                 ^^^^^
> was supposed to go off when you flew off the bike in a crash, and cushion
> your impact with the ground...

But sometimes you fall a** over ears and end up on your back :-!
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			Daniel M. O'Brien (ihnp4!ihmax!dob)
			AT&T Bell Laboratories
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