Ford coming with rear seat-belt cum airbags next year

US based Ford Motors is planning to implement a latest rear seat airbag system in which seat belts of rear seat passengers will also work as airbags. These type of seat belt come airbags are specially developed to reduce injuries of children as well as elderly people. This new technology  can be seen as a new marketing strategy at a time when almost every big car manufacture is coming with something new in its portfolio.

Fords seat belt is coming with an inflatable bag inside the shoulder strap. with this shoulder strap a small cylinder of cold compressed gas is also fitted beneath the seat which started acting in the case of a sudden crash or mishap. According to Ford Motors the belts inflate less explosively than a traditional air bag and are designed to spread the force of a crash over an area of the body five times as large as regular seat belts do.

Vehicle safety has come a long away, but the focus has been on the front seat, said Stewart C. Wang, a trauma surgeon at the University of Michigan hospital and director of the university’s Program for Injury Research and Education, who spoke at Ford’s unveiling of the technology Thursday.