Inflatable Electric Cars: Surround Your Body in Bliss

Nick Chambers — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 17:31:47 +0000

Here’s an interesting idea: instead of putting the airbag in the car, put the car in the airbag.

Sure it sounds silly, but XP vehicles, a start-up in California, is doing just that with their upcoming electric car, the Whisper™. Apparently, XP has taken the same sort of airbag technology developed to safely land recent NASA missions on Mars and used it to create an inflatable polymer car frame in which they pack all the essentials for it to actually be considered an automobile.

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Inflatable Electric Cars: Surround Your Body in Bliss

Here’s an interesting idea: instead of putting the airbag in the car, put the car in the airbag.