cars aren't as safe as you probably think they are
crashing a road car is still most likely going to fuck you up in some way, the designers aren't wizards
Why was visibility completely forgotten as an important safety feature...
Julian Jenkins
Camden Edwards
they don't even bother trying to design cars that will protect you from an impact at more than 40mph
actual impact speed is usually much lower than what was indicated before the accident because you usually at least get a chance to hammer the brakes
this is one of the reasons texting and driving is a genuine fucking menace
Elijah Young
>the designers aren't wizards
No shit, because if they were worth anything, they would design the car to be strong enough not to have all the fucking airbags in the pillars that you can't see past, it's not for rollover protection, it's so some shitty company like Takata can sell 8 airbags per car instead of just 2-4
Noah Nguyen
To add to this, it's basically lazy shit engineers or executives that for some reason think it's cheaper to stick 9 airbags in a car instead of a better overall design
I blame Demolition Man
Luis Ward
The only thing that would realistically save you would be a full fire suit, HANS device, Helmet and a roll cage. If anybody hits you or you drive head on into a wall you'll probably die though.
tldr; you're gonna die anyways.
Henry Robinson
>Why was visibility completely forgotten as an important safety feature?
Because a passenger cabin box with the vertical beams being mostly verticle can be compressed and thus crumpled. But if the end beams are more horizontal, the cabin box is very strong against front and rear end compression forces. Unfortunately, the more horizontal the A and C pillars are, the worse your visibility. Hence, rear view cameras have been mandated by the DOT in future cars.
That implies touch screens will become a "mandatory" feature in all new cars. That's because if the rear view camera is required, a viewable screen is needed which implies the best use of screen real estate is to make it multi-purpose --> touch screen.
Some cars already put the rear view camera display on the central rear view mirror. My GM car has various features built into that main rear view mirror like that and even lights appear. Of course, it's also electrochromic.
Jason Bennett
lol dude, airbags aren't to compensate for body strength
if the car stops on a dime, with the body remaining perfectly intact, your body essentially wants to keep travelling at the speed you were doing
this will probably kill you after you have your own personal impact with the interior
Lucas Diaz
Airbags are there to cushion the sudden amount of force hitting their vehicle, my argument was against how many of the fucking things they have in cars now and how you could design it to be just as safe with almost half the amount of airbags they shove in cars
Landon Rogers
Technically you can't unless you have some other form of restraints, like HANS, arm restraints and a helmet. Airbags are just inflatable cushions that (relative to the impact) slowly slow you down. To cover from multiple directions, multiple airbags are needed.
youtube.com
Look at what happens to the dummy's head, I find it makes a good case for multiple airbags, just not at the cost of visibility.
It's a delicate balance, and I hope it's found soon.
Evan Scott
>That implies touch screens will become a "mandatory" feature in all new cars.
Not necessarily, you could still have mechanical HVAC and a base radio with a small rear camera screen in the rear-view mirror or instrument cluster. No need for touchscreen controls at all, even on the shittiest of shitboxes.
Could also just stream the rear cam feed to a cell phone or something. Automakers find a way to make everything cheap and shitty, don't you worry.