Different strokes for different folks, right? Never was this more true than a new approach an Australian agency is taking to driver and passenger safety. Volvo may have spent millions of dollars and decades of research to set new standards for safety, but what do they know? According to the inventors of this new "technology," the Swedes were way off the mark.
So what's this revolution in auto safety that we aren't hearing anything about? The headband. That's right, while automakers were designing air bags and telling us to wear our seat belts, Australia's Centre for Automotive Safety Research at the prestigious University of Adelaide was revealing the headband to be the new brain saver. Who knew? No wonder the Harlem Globetrotters went so many years without any head injuries off the court.
How does this new wave of head protection work? If you're really interested, you should read up on their research. But basically you wear it on your head, like any headband, and it stands between your skull and anything it impacts. Who knows, it would probably work. They have barrels of research supporting the use of the headband. If it's successful in protecting us, maybe the NHTSA will mandate its use in this country. There's nothing like state mandated hat-head to bring the people of the United States together.