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Re:Berlin crash prompts calls to ban SUVs from German cities by braythwayt on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @12:04PM (#20929721)
Good question. There is a bunch of information about it on the Internet, here's a post that seems somewhat informative:

https://www.autoevolution.com/news/how-pedestrian-airbags-wo...

But note, they have moved on to trying to avoid striking pedestrians and/or reduce injury through reducing speed.

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Re:Berlin crash prompts calls to ban SUVs from German cities by SketchySeaBeast on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @12:26PM (#20929953)
Ah, so it looks to provide cushion for the hood. I had visions of the bumper exploding into a giant airbag ahead of the car.

Seems like that's a better choice - moving to prevention rather than mitigation.

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