Le 2011/04/18 12:13, Jim Henderson a écrit :
> 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

1 car hiting a wall at 50 is similar to 1 car hiting a stationary car of 
about it's mass at 100.

2 cars, each going 100, will fare about the same as ether at that speed 
against a wall.


Alain

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