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by knowtheory 4337 days ago
Okay, how's this :P

Cars have other safety equipment that make them unlike bicycles. These include airbags, seatbelts, crumple zones and the like.

If you are a driving, you should employ those safety devices when you do so.

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Ok that leaves pedestrians, who have twice as many head injury's per km. Most likely due to being hit by cars - perhaps cars should have airbags on the outside too...
Volvo does have such a pedestrian airbag: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2Aw4eZoijk

Apparently that model has scored the highest Euro NCAP crash test as of 2012 (the NCAP tests tests both damage to drive AND pedestrians).