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The airbags inside the car are meant to cushion the hard surfaces of course and the curtain bags are meant to keep people and their limbs in the protective passenger area when the car spins, but also they are acting as a counterforce and slow the speed of the person a little more gently, versus an instant stop to a solid object such as the dashboard, causing internal injuries as well as the external trauma.
Also airbags are a very good reason to wear a seatbelt - if you pop the airbags while colliding at relatively slow speeds, you'll probably lean forward a bit from the deceleration only to be punched in the face by the bag (and probably get some vertebrae renovated).
So while installing external airbags to cushion the pedestrian impact sounds like a good idea it probably isn't, as the bag suddenly expanding from the direction of the vehicle would simply add to the energy and "punch" the pedestrian away from the car at the 200mph at which an airbag expands.
Lastly, I'm all in for the gel from Demolition Man, why aren't we funding it?? Would it come in different scents and colors? :-D Really the car could one day - when detecting an unavoidable collision - spray out a foam or expanding gel that would cushion the surfaces and also decelerate the fall of the pedestrian - I'm thinking Final Fantasy Spirits Within -soldiers drop gel"?
Also, back then when it was allowed to have more imaginative names we were also able to have actually meaningful arguments online. Now you have to be in the line of "non-entity_#83591" without any opinions on anything to not offend anyone, and mostly voicing a different opinion results in a veritable s*tstorm that has no relevance to the topic that was discussed. SJWs and white-knighting simps... /sigh.
Maybe someone already said it but I'll echo anyway - unless it's all about going outside the comfort zone to learn new tools, the person building should always first picture what needs to be built, then pick the right materials and tools for the project. Taking their own skills into account when using said tools of course.
Preferably even think a little ahead about your content to come if the site is meant to last for years when picking the tech. Ask yourself some "whatifs". Like what if you want to later on make some trade for yourself and set up shop for your crafts or skillset, can it be done easily enough as well?
TL;DR - Useful and well written article, there's never enough easy-read, non-commercial, experience-based journals about site building basics to help newcomers. Cheers!
Joking aside I think the urban infrastructure of today could use more of these small touches of aesthetics around. Why does everything modern have to be so boring, somehow I don't see a few ornamental street lamp posts or manhole covers wrecking any governmental budgets.
But you might be right, if the snowball was about to go out of control this would have been a smart way to throttle growth, a little uncertainty would do the trick and is also conveniently quickly forgotten without significant PR loss. Good angle!
Agree with you there that this isn't much of a privacy leak as the average user mostly knows what's going on. I'd guess the article wasn't really meant to point out a threat to privacy, maybe more on the lines of "FB doesn't want to share it's methods of using the information it gathers". Shocking...
It says so on the internet, so it must be true.