The design helps protect both pedestrians and cyclists in a crash. The catch: It’s only available in Japan for now.

Subaru’s new Forester features the world’s first airbag designed specifically for cyclists. The technology previously focused on pedestrians only, but is now larger to help both groups.

To address this issue, Subaru just changed the airbag to extend up the sides of the windshield. This protects cyclists from the A-pillar, one of the strongest parts of the car. In addition ...

That possibility makes it somewhat odd, though, that the airbag doesn't cover the windshield glass. Cracking your head on a tempered windshield through a flimsy little bicycle helmet doesn't seem ...

On impact, this Forester can instantaneously deploy a huge U-shaped airbag from the point where the windshield and hood meet. The second one I’ll mention quickly: a turbocharged 1.8T hybrid engine ...

This airbag deployed at the base of the windshield, above the hood, to cushion the head of a pedestrian thrown onto the vehicle. But cyclists, often thrown higher and at different angles ...