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The Physics Behind Car Crashes
Guinnessy writes "Physics Today has an article on Vehicle Design and the Physics of Traffic Safety. The article analyzes in detail typical crashes experienced between cars, and cars with SUVs'. According to Marc Ross, Deena Patel, and Tom Wenzel, "The evidence is compelling that body-on-frame light trucks cannot safely coexist with passenger cars under existing conditions. That problem is critical because so many light trucks are used nowadays as car substitutes." They suggest some ways in which both cars and SUVs' can be redesigned to improve safety. Meanwhile Detriot News reports on a Pediatrics journal study says that claims that children are no safer in SUVs than cars because of the rollover risks."
..that one of their findings was that cars dont explode upon slightly touching each other!
funny how driving a builders wagon became fashionable, perhaps milk floats are next, or even a dustcart !, we can only live in hope
Well, that settles it then. It's obvious we need to outlaw passenger cars. Not only will that remove millions of unsafe cars from the road, it will give a much needed economic boost to the SUV manufacturers.
Besides, if a car is unsafe around a light body truck, it must be a death trap around a standard truck or a semi-tractor trailer rig...
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I like to drive at 100mph. If everyone drove at least 98mph then it's just a risk of a 2mph collision. The higher speed uses gas faster and reduces the vehicle weight. :P
ok then. let's have a party.
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12 yards long, 2 lanes wide,
65 tons of American Pride!
Canyonero! Canyonero!
Top of the line in utility sports,
Unexplained fires are a matter for the courts!
Canyonero! Canyonero! (Yah!)
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Overheard at a cafe in Stockholm:
Volvo Engineer: But your SUV is so dangerous - it has no crumple zones.
Chinese Car Salesman: Silly Swede. You Volvo my crumple zone.
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The hood in front of the car is lifted a few inches after 40 or so milliseconds so the pedestrian gets lifted as well and won't get run over by the car but lands on the softer hood and might hit the car glass.
Wow! That's great! Now instead of plebs getting messily caught in my undercarraige, they'll just hit the bonnet and windshield and bounce right off! I can just turn on the sprinklers and wash the blood right off while I sip on my latte! This is genius!
The only downside I can think of is that they may be inconsiderately be wearing metallic objects that might scratch my paintjob. That's a serious issue with this system. Perhaps it would be better if they were bumped to the side instead, preferably to the sidewalk, as that way they wouldn't fly into any oncoming drivers, thus exacerabting the problem.
May the Maths Be with you!
I'm happy with my moonbuggy, the safest vehicle out there. http://moonbuggy.msfc.nasa.gov/images/mbmid.gif
Per Aspera Ad Astra.
Did you ever consider, that this might have been a selling point to the chinese goverment when the company went to them ? Think about it.. Stylish.. modern, american looking, AND it helps reduce the population!
Ha. That made this pop into my head:
Mr Burns, of course :-)
But strangely, the bus will rapidly gain mass after an accident, from all the people who said they were on the bus and want to file an injury claim. Even stranger, this mass gain happens even when the accident is simulated.
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smells like a steak and seats thirty-five..
Canyonero! Canyonero!
Well, it goes real slow with the hammer down,
It's the country-fried truck endorsed by a clown!
Canyonero! (Yah!) Canyonero!
[Krusty:] Hey Hey
The Federal Highway comission has ruled the
Canyonero unsafe for highway or city driving.
Canyonero!
12 yards long, 2 lanes wide,
65 tons of American Pride!
Canyonero! Canyonero!
Top of the line in utility sports,
Unexplained fires are a matter for the courts!
Canyonero! Canyonero! (Yah!)
She blinds everybody with her super high beams,
She's a squirrel crushing, deer smacking, driving machine!
Canyonero!-oh woah, Canyonero!
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Remind me again when I drive over your lousy SUV with my tank..
You really should pick a better class of vehicle.
You could also do the same by buying a pickup truck. I remember a Biology class (taught by an Ecology professor) I took in college where I called out my professor for not mentioning pickups when he asked who in the classes owned SUVs and tried to convince them that they shouldn't.
What's funny is that he started asking what the students needed their SUVs for and then quickly stopped when three of the first four students he asked actually needed their SUV for summer jobs (towing a large landscaping trailer, carrying tools and saw horses for decking, and carpooling six people to an internship an hour away). It was priceless because you could tell he was going to use anecdotal evidence to blast their choice of vehicle until he realized that their vehicle choices weren't too bad given their situation.
I suppose I don't need to draw any pictures of what this did to the four occupants.
This is how we know you're lying -- no H2 has ever had four passengers at the same time.
Unless you mean the driver and three bags of groceries.
Why would ANYONE, let alone a 24 year old woman, want insurance on an XM? Push it off a cliff and make a nice artificial reef so at least something benefits from its manufacture.
The XM is a sort of engineers car, atleast in that it is totally over engineered. Unfortunately those engineers happened to be French.
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You forgot:
4) Profit