YouTubers Showcase What Could Be The Future Of Motorcycle Safety. Are Airbags The Answer?

A new video posted on Donut Media YouTube channel features auto enthusiasts experimenting with a Dainese riding jacket inbuilt with airbags to interesting results.

What Happened: The video, which garnered nearly 696,000 views at the time of publishing, shows the team at Donut experimenting with a Dainese airbag-inbuilt riding jacket. Dainese is an Italian company that manufactures motorcycle clothing, sportswear, and protective gear.

The jacket brings in technology from race suits designed with MotoGP riders in mind to street drivers. It fills up with argon gas in 45 milliseconds on sensing a crash, three times faster than blinking, to protect the driver from severe injury.

With the jacket- dubbed the safest motorcycle jacket by show host Jeremiah Burton- the force that could break a bone would now leave only bruises. The video presenters experimented with two scenarios- when a bike hits a car and vice-versa when a car hits a bike- with the help of a dummy nicknamed “Coleman”.

“Coleman would be really sore but probably alive,” they remarked post-experiments.

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However, in the course of the video, the bike swerved in the wrong direction and damaged a BMW M5 worth $100,000 instead of crashing into a Cabrio.

Donut Media is a YouTube channel dedicated to auto enthusiasts. They joined YouTube in July 2015 and have garnered over 2 billion views until now.

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