Innovations influencing the world

Germany is a nation famous for innovation, with many inventions influencing the entire world.

Airbag: Rocket application for safety

Thirty milliseconds are often decisive. In an accident, the airbag should have opened by then. The idea for the first "air protection" for motor vehicles was already being developed in the 1960s. However the compressed air systems tested worked too slowly. In 1971, Mercedes-Benz made a technical breakthrough.