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"Magnulus" > wrote in message
... > > "Jim Yanik" .> wrote in message > .. . > > If you carefully examine the Earnhardt collision with the wall,you would > > see that the impact was not that big an impact,for 180 MPH.It was a > grazing > > impact,too.Other race car drivers have survived worse impacts. > > I watched the replay of it. The car appeared to slow down a bit, but > then accelerated into the wall. It was just maybe 20 degrees short of a > full frontal impact. He didn't just graze the wall. > > His seatbelt may have also failed in the accident. A HANS device might > have assisted the seatbelt in keeping him in place. We'll never know though > because there was no indepedent autopsy. > > At any rate- a typical road vehicle collision is dealing with forces of > magnitudes less than the typical racecar collision. A helmet for a car > doesn't necessarily have to be as heavy as a motorcycle helmet, either. > Nobody will be driving around their cars at over 100 mph, at least nobody > remotely sane. What about those in places where roads are designed to handle speeds in excess of 100 MPH and those speeds are the norm? I suppose those people aren't even remotely sane being as how they are exceeding the arbitrary numbers established in the U.S. for revenue collection? |
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"Cory Dunkle" > wrote in message ... > What about those in places where roads are designed to handle speeds in > excess of 100 MPH and those speeds are the norm? I suppose those people > aren't even remotely sane being as how they are exceeding the arbitrary > numbers established in the U.S. for revenue collection? Like the Autobahn? It does have speed limits in some places, especially around sharper curves (Usually about 50mph). German cars also have higher safety standards now than American cars, and there are very few SUV's there. Where I see the really problematic speeding is off interstates and big highways. I see people speeding just driving to the mall or grocery store. Usually doing 10-15 mph over the limit. And the way the lights are setup, they really make no better time than I do, driving the speed limit. |
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"Cory Dunkle" > wrote in message ... > What about those in places where roads are designed to handle speeds in > excess of 100 MPH and those speeds are the norm? I suppose those people > aren't even remotely sane being as how they are exceeding the arbitrary > numbers established in the U.S. for revenue collection? Like the Autobahn? It does have speed limits in some places, especially around sharper curves (Usually about 50mph). German cars also have higher safety standards now than American cars, and there are very few SUV's there. Where I see the really problematic speeding is off interstates and big highways. I see people speeding just driving to the mall or grocery store. Usually doing 10-15 mph over the limit. And the way the lights are setup, they really make no better time than I do, driving the speed limit. |
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"Max" > wrote in message ... > Auto racing cars have no airbags. For good reason. > Because they don't really need them? 4-5 point restraints and helmets make the driver alot safer in anything but the worst collisions. They also are engineered to crash well, especially Formula One and Indycars. In a frontal collision in a passenger car, an airbag adds a little protection over a seatbelt, but not much. The place an airbag could really help is in side-impact crashes, where crumple zones are less. In a passenger car, even if you are belted in, you can bounce around alot. That doesn't happen in a racecar usually. |
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"Max" > wrote in message ... > Auto racing cars have no airbags. For good reason. > Because they don't really need them? 4-5 point restraints and helmets make the driver alot safer in anything but the worst collisions. They also are engineered to crash well, especially Formula One and Indycars. In a frontal collision in a passenger car, an airbag adds a little protection over a seatbelt, but not much. The place an airbag could really help is in side-impact crashes, where crumple zones are less. In a passenger car, even if you are belted in, you can bounce around alot. That doesn't happen in a racecar usually. |
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It's the dimocratic way!
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