Crash Testing a Motorcycle Airbag Suit 

Thank you for what you do. 4 weeks ago I crashed on track (no airbag unfortunately) and the trauma team was awesome. Worst of it was seven broken ribs and partially collapsed lung along with numerous less serious injuries. Edit: typos. Still one-handed.

I’ve felt a little bit flat with donut recently, but now I realise they’ve been thinking and creating in the background, to give us some of the best content we have seen 💚 Thank you, and sorry for any stream of doubt in my mind 🫶🏼🫶🏼🫶🏼🫶🏼

Airbag jackets are the only reason I decided to finally ride a motorcycle. Its a level of safety that I wouldn't ride without.

This is the best review on here!

In your experience what type works best? Like coverage or brand name

thats coward talk

You think they put more than the bare minimum thought into their videos? Lol

​@@theend1555 a shroud avatar talkin trash😂

A remote control setup that they can control, remotely, would also be useful.

But the content bro...

Were they all Dainese riders? That would explain it, still cool to interview, sad shame that if they were all Dainese riders that they were maybe just slightly exaggerating the difference Dainese airbag vests make.

@@MotoDash1100 No. all motogp riders use airbags. Doesn’t matter who makes their suits, whether it’s Dainese, Alpinestars or anyone else.

Let’s make this the top comment

The riders in the interview do wear Dianese.

@@gravitydotkom alpinestars is also based in italy (at Asolo to be precise)

Wow. How sad and unfortunate, sounds like an amazing dude! People are soooo...🤦 What happened with the blind lady? Did she get charged?

That was my thoughts exactly like keeping his head from smashing into the car while wearing the suit 🤔. That’s pretty wild. I can see why the moto GP people want the suit on no matter what. Even if their crashes are a little different lol

You might still lose your legs, but youre alive 😉

You'd still get sever damage if not death .

​@@leodjondo3489 true but very greatly ups your odds of at least surviving.

@@jodysales2362 yes! And it will get better with time

Now you gotta do it again without the vest to see if it really did though!

😊good to still have you here

Details of what happened would be nice.

Me too. Hope you are okay!

@@sienile he wrecked and the airbag saved him, youre welcome

Really? Is that what happened genius?

That HAD TO be planned...

It was the Dummy getting revenge on them for getting slammed way too much

Mythbusters vibe 😏

Nice effort on the two dudes that didn't try and stop it worthless

Corridor Digital has a timer for theirs.

uMM, aCtuALlY... 🤓 y0U mEaNt t0 sAy coNTeNt, n0T cONtaCt!

Yea since early donut

​@@baconbenjidestroyer never seen one of donuts ads. Never will.

"I was on my phone" really added to it 😭

Same

yeah it's better for normal people than any alpine or dainese stuff. those are to expensive and don't offer that much more protection. it's more just a fancy brand really.

​@@rampage3337 unless you're a rich ducatista to thinks they're some sort of street rossi you get the helite. The only time I've seen the dainese stuff out in the wild was when I was on my local mountain and two Ari Henning look alikes on brand new red panigales. Those are among the best looking of all time in my opinion.

But those work on a safety chord system right? Wouldn't that make it more vulnerable to the rear ended type of crash they showed in the vid since the chord wouldn't be pulled far back enough to activate the airbag.

@@crab_spy_ helite offers a motogp model with no cord needed.

@@crab_spy_ if you attach it properly it will go off any way you fall off. You attach them with enough room so that you don't set it off in normal riding but not enough to not go off in an actual accident. Most people at first are afraid of setting it off by accident by forgetting to unclip and walking away so they leave a ton of room which is bad in a real accident, but in reality the cord takes a ton of force to pull out. It's enough force to pull your bike over before it goes off.

I would never ride without airbag, i don't ride for my safety (because i am an idiot who would constantly go over the speed limit) but i have a friend who rides bikes, and he has a full biker suite, looks something like those GP suites, it has reinforced back protection, elbow and knee protection and airbags. Yeah it is hard to walk in that thing but he crashed many times, worst injury was a broken arm

Sure did for the dummy too.

On the hand you knew it was a bad idea with all those nice cars next to the "crash site", on the other hand, makes for a better video and views...so it pays for the repairs?

@@athienit It looked hardly scratched so I think it’ll buff out.

Seems like the "lake" could of been avoided too, but they set up the crash to happen right next to the water. 🤷🏻‍♀

that's what being own by a private hedge fund gets you

@@StanleyKubick1 as long as it keeps giving us bombass videos, i don't really care

I follow donut for many years and the production is going down by a great margin... shows they had about cars and car people are gone, money pit is over, hi/low is over... its all just sad... I miss up to speed and money pit... this remote bike trash or safety crap aint even interesting to watch since I aint gonna be buying that... aswell as most curent donut vids that are pointless... like drift RC car and whatnot...

@@bumpy86 well something tells me the guy who's dumb enough to not care about safety isn't the target audience for videos about safety products. Funny how that works. Maybe you should just seek other channels instead of thinking this one needs to cater to you so personally.

@@bumpy86 Yeah they've fallen off a cliff recently

Agreed. One of my favorite lines of his.

applies also I believe it was "screwing around" not sure what larking means

@@Heroo01 Its a UK word for screwing, larking. Yeah i got a bit confused but it means the same thing.

I looked at that one but wasn't too impressed with their "rent" system. Ended up going with a tech air 5

Helite and Hit Air make airbag vests that go over any jacket. Klim also has a vest that goes under a jacket but requires a monthly subscription to use or it won't deploy (you know you've reached peak dickbag when you charge a monthly sub for a safety feature). Alpinestars also has their tech-air suits, jackets and a vest that goes under any jacket, but they're just as pricey as Dianese.

@@mrvwbug4423 I hear good things about Hit Air so may well check them out. Although I don't ride sports bikes as much now, I'm actually thinking of making the swap to something like a Vulcan 650. Still not sure how I feel about that, but 20 years of cramming myself onto bikes to go way too fast... it might just be time to get something a little more comfy!

Yeah, they used a very small bike and a very tall car, on a full size bike rider would probably end up on the windshield

tbf in the US that car is bumper is low compared to what you usually see on the road, mostly trucks and suvs/crossovers

Seems like an advertisement

Nah i think you're misreading the situation. the suit deployed before it hit the dummy. the whole point is to minimize the amount of damage done, so it detects abnormal angles and velocity. the suit deployed when it detected abnormal movement from the dummy, cause the van hit the wheel and pushed the whole bike forward, which is what would happen in most instances. His spine wouldn't have been shattered because the suit deployed before the van made contact with the dummy. it straightened out its back so it couldn't arch backwards from impact. look at the slow mo shot, the thing deployed before hitting its back.

It absolutely deployed a time later than impact. You can clearly see how much later it deployed, in the footage.. dude went flying...... The system isn't designed to protect a stationary person. It's designed for people already in motion. They shouldn't have tried a stationary test, as it's not relevant at all.

@@loganishere4760 I agree that's the idea in theory, and that would most likely work fine on a larger bike with a bigger tire and more distance between the back tire and your back. However, in this specific example the bumper of the van was almost above the back tire. At 12:00 you can use the < and > key on the keyboard to go frame by frame and only after his entire back is against the hood can you see the front of the vest start to inflate and the ripples in the fabric as it fills with gas. What I'm referring to is at 12:40 they show the entire no airbag slow-mo shot before they insert the crash test dummy graphic, then at 12:55 they insert the graphic as soon as the bumper touches the dummy so you cant see exactly when the front of the vest inflates. This video was definitely sponsored by Dainese, and at 8:58 you can see a Dainese van. Most likely Dainese did not like that the vest did not have enough time to inflate because the tall bumper went over the small tire and they wanted it "covered up." The airbag is still better than nothing, and would help in most cases, but there is also room for improvement. Most likely the vest has accelerometers inside it that sense the movements and rotations, however that means that the suit itself needs to move. Because of inertia an object stays at rest unless acted on by an outside force. The dummy is sitting still and the bike is pushed out from under him but the torso, and thus the vest, is relatively still. Then the outside force is the bumper pushing the torso and vest causing both to begin accelerating. In the first test the bike is moving and then stops abruptly causing the rider to lean forward and thus create a weird rotation that the vest can detect. There is enough time while the rider is in the air for the airbag to deploy before the rider lands on the car or road. I believe an improvement that could be made is adding proximity sensors to the suit, so if it detects an object is rapidly approaching you it can deploy before the object even touches you and before there is any acceleration or rotation. However this would be much more computationally heavy because a computer would have to calculate and decide if the object is somebody getting on the back of your bike, a car that is just passing by a bit too close, if the object is slow enough to stop in time, or if an impact is unavoidable and the airbag needs to deploy.

too many motorcyclists on the crew to not know how to pronounce it!

If a Semi hits you, god or the universe probably wants you dead anyway

Thanks doc. I'll keep that one in mind.

Thanks for the info

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If you guys would stop merging in front of semis 50ft infront of them they may not hit you. Takes a semi truck sum 355ft to stop at 55mph

What M5? I didn't see nothing.

I would assume whoever's it is, they were apologetic, pay for damages & wouldn't be surprised if they add a little for value reimbursement 👍. If I had the means to do so I'd do it exactly like this.

It's my car I just bought another one and gave the one they hit to them.

That’s what im saying, like are they gonna address it oooor?

@@ufwJean what happened?

@@ratedm90 oh idk what happened, i was just saying like are they gonna address his lack of presence in the videos

I love men

​@@sebastiankowal6971 bro what 😭

​@@sebastiankowal6971 WHAT?!

​@@sebastiankowal6971 we know that that worry 💀

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It’s basically life insurance. Both scams, but I’d take this airbag over insurance any day.

Dainese vest do not require a subscription service you get free software upgrade for the life of the product

r u seriously serious

That was a great catch! 👍