On 17/04/2011 17:07, Darren New wrote:
> On 4/17/2011 2:57, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>> Yes, I know what a crumple zone is. But at 100MPH, there are going to be
>> fatalities, no matter which way you design a car.
>
> I take it the UK doesn't have any Formula-1 races?

Yeah, they do. But I'm pretty sure people driving road cars don't wear 
full-body flame-retardant suits, high-end crash helmets, custom-moulded 
seats, custom-calibrated seatbelts and heat restraints. I'm also fairly 
sure no known road car weighs as little as an F1 car, nor is quite as 
low to the ground. Also, walking around the Silverstone race circuit, 
there is a rather conspicuous absence of solid objects to collide with.

If you crash a road car, you're not going to fly across a gravel trap 
for half a mile and then hit a deformable tire wall. You're either going 
to hit another car, or else a tree or a concrete wall. I doubt anybody 
is going to walk away from that alive.

This is presumably why driving at 100MPH is an instant license revocation...

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