Could airbags save pedestrians? GM patents idea

This will make you think twice before putting your feet up on the dashboard during your next road trip. General Motors stock falls on Monday after Goldman Sachs rates the stock a sell. File photo shows GM logo. General Motors has received a patent for an airbag on the outside of vehicles designed to "provide protection to a pedestrian," the latest iteration in an industry effort to address a growing problem that accounts for roughly one-in-seven U.S. traffic deaths. "The pedestrian protection airbag could become an important engineering solution in the future," said Tom Wilkerson, safety communications spokesman for GM.