A team at German engineering company ZF has redesigned the car airbag to enable new high-tech cockpits. The new design enables the driver’s airbag to deploy from the top of the steering wheel, namely through the upper wheel rim and towards the occupant, instead of from the centre hub as at present. The change might sound minor, but it makes entirely new designs for steering wheels possible, with the horizontal spoke and hub taking on a “smartphone-like design”. The solution could lead to touch displays and central screens on the kind of futuristic integrated steering wheels seen on many concep…