On Sun, 17 Apr 2011 10:57:32 +0100, Orchid XP v8 wrote:

>>> Designing it so the car doesn't survive the crash but the people
>>> inside do would be even more miraculous...
>>
>> You've never seen a car crash (or the results of one), have you?  Most
>> of them are *designed* to crumple in order to protect the passengers.
> 
> 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.

Um, can you guarantee fatalities?  Because I'm sure that it's happened.  
100 MPH is two cars in a head-on collision doing only 50 MPH, remember.

Richard Hammond is still alive, for that matter - he was going 288 MPH 
when the "car" (it was a dragster with a jet assist, as I recall) he was 
in crashed.  He didn't walk away from it, but he didn't die, either (as 
evidenced by the fact that he's still presenting on Top Gear).

Jim

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