Local inventor pitches big ideas, but costs, skeptics stymie growth

Princess Diana˜s death shocked the world, and since that night, people everywhere have speculated about the circumstances surrounding the car crash that took her life. Richard Weiler, founder of Loveland-based Dusenbury Research & Design Services, has done so, but as an inventor, he also has developed a product he says might have saved her life.
Weiler has built a passenger restraint system for cars he claims is much safer than air bags and seat belts. His invention is a thickly padded U-shaped bar that locks over the passenger˜s thighs and chest on impact, but then releases pneumatically so the passenger…