Back to the future (without realizing it) again

Three years ago the Wall Street Journal ran an article that described how air planes were borrowing from cars by starting to get airbags. The author didn't realize that air bags were actually developed for airplanes in the first place. Now the Journal is back with (Former Auto Exec Gives Flight to Air Bags; Engineer Uses His Car-Safety Background to Tackle an Aviation Dilemma).Basically it's the same story, different year.