Super manual pedestrian protection technology on cars

Realizing the danger, the driver hit the steering wheel, immediately the front of the car released a device similar to an excavator bucket but made of fabric and scooped up the pedestrian.

This 1939 British Pathé film from Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, shows the safety device, a cloth bucket-shaped device on the front of a vehicle, unfolding and enclosing the pedestrian. But then the driver must fold the device into its carrying case. The driver and pedestrian in the video are believed to be the inventors of the device.

Another video, also recorded by British Pathé in 1927 in Berlin, Germany, shows a similar technology being tested, but instead of a bucket, a net is used. This time, a pedestrian is standing in the middle of the road and is hit by a car coming from behind. The victim, however, appears to be quite comfortable sitting in the net, which is spread out in front of the car.

According to VNE