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| #142 |
11-20-2003 @ 10:56:55 PM |
| Posted By : Low-Tech Redneck |
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#140, That's the problem with modern race car "safety" speeds are reaching the point where the incredible negative-G forces from collisions are on the verge of liquifying your internal organs in a crash
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| #143 |
11-20-2003 @ 10:57:21 PM |
| Posted By : Skid |
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#141, You don't hear about neck breakage every other season in stock car racing.
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| #144 |
11-20-2003 @ 10:58:46 PM |
| Posted By : Lemming |
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#140, Also a good point; I will say that I have had personal experience with crumple zones twice. My father and I shortened the family Maxima by about a foot less than a month after we bought it by "t-boning" a Celebrity wagon. Dad got a sore neck (no injuries other than that) and I was fine, although shaken (I was in about 3rd grade at the time). Then there was the Mustang, which has horrible rear collision integrity due to a variety of factors. Still, despite the fact that I got nailed from behind, I only had a sore neck for a day or two.
#138: Actually, I just looked that up--I have used that word approximately 30 times, and most of them were not in that context.
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| #145 |
11-20-2003 @ 11:05:27 PM |
| Posted By : Skid |
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#144, I guess it just seems that way...I can only think of one other time off the top of my head that you used it in that context, and that was when we were discussing driving with parking lights on.
I guess this is the point I've been trying to make, as best I can explain it: In high speed crashed, the passengers' compartment in a car with crumple zones is always badly damaged, leading me to believe that they are very unsafe indeed. True, you can say high speed crashes in cars without crumple zones are just as unsafe, but I'd much rather have internal injuries than be crushed to death.
As for low speed crashes: Crumple zones may prevent injuries, but the downside is the excessive damage to the car. I'd rather recieve a few minor injuries and have my car reparable than no injuries and a totaled car. Bruises and cracked bones can heal on their own.
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| #146 |
11-21-2003 @ 08:54:38 AM |
| Posted By : mr_mcmunkee |
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#144, I wouldn't use your Mustang as an example...you just shot down your arguments. I was "nailed" by someone from behind in a car before these crumple zones were being put into cars. The other driver in a BMW was going about 25-30 mph and I was sitting still...much like your accident. My car had $150 in damage, which I was able to repair myself because it was just really a dented bumper. His BMW was totalled. I was unhurt. In YOUR accident, you were also unhurt, but your Mustang and the other driver's cars were totalled.
So...I was well protected and my car survived. In your case, in a smiliar if not exactly the same accident...your car was totalled. Now think if the accident WAS your fault (maybe you were the other car) and you were now left owing for your old car stilll, and you nohad to buy another one. That's a huge debt to overcome and either way you'd be pretty must unhurt. I'd rather rely on my seatbelts and a car that won't disinegrate with a very minor collisio
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| #147 |
11-21-2003 @ 08:59:28 AM |
| Posted By : mr_mcmunkee |
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True story. My parents, in the early 70's, were sitting at a stop light in their '65 Falcon and some guys who just robbed a bank slammed into the back of them. The only injury was a cut on my mother's forehead, she probably wan't wearing her shoulder harness (they were seperate from the lap belt in those days in many cars). The car was ok pretty much ok. Oh, and the bank robbers were arrested. They didn't need airbags, crumple zones, and "hi-tech" plastic body parts back then...the cars were just tough.
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| #148 |
11-21-2003 @ 09:03:32 AM |
| Posted By : solid_snake |
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#146, no if the mustang had stabed him with a piece of the body he would have shot down his arguments, as to paying the bills have you ever heard of insurance? It's an amazing thing really
[Edited by solid_snake on 11-21-2003 @ 09:04:35 AM]
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| #149 |
11-21-2003 @ 09:04:32 AM |
| Posted By : mr_mcmunkee |
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You have insurance that will pay for your car if it's YOUR fault or if bad weather makes you slide into someone? WOW! Sign me up!
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| #150 |
11-21-2003 @ 09:06:06 AM |
| Posted By : solid_snake |
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well I was found at fault for my accident (different rant all together) and they cut a check for the car
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| #152 |
11-21-2003 @ 09:18:23 AM |
| Posted By : mr_mcmunkee |
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Nevertheless, you still have to find a new car even with a minor accident in a lot of cases with new cars...and insurance companies never pay for modifications/upgrades you've done to the car. You'll lose whatever you added to your car because they'll only look at the blue book value and pay you that. I'd still rather have a car that will actually survive the accident than some out looking like the Honda in the above picture or Lemming's Mustang.
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| #153 |
11-21-2003 @ 12:23:02 PM |
| Posted By : solid_snake |
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twokota in the forums has insurance that covers all the work he's done
[Edited by solid_snake on 11-21-2003 @ 12:23:58 PM]
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| #154 |
3-22-2005 @ 11:35:41 PM |
| Posted By : 427 Vette |
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What I recall from reading this:
Biohazard- "My Volvo is invincible"
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