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Powershift posted:It's even better than that when you find one with the safety bumper disguised as a front wing to meet minimum bumper height requirements. why not just lower the front a bit more and turn the whole car into an old-timey locomotive cowplow
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Powershift posted:It's even better than that when you find one with the safety bumper disguised as a front wing to meet minimum bumper height requirements. lmao
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Dec 18, 2018 05:18
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Well that’s one car that’s not going to blind me with maladjusted headlamps.
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Platystemon posted:Well that’s one car that’s not going to blind me with maladjusted headlamps. Bad news, broski.  the headlights are still higher than the spoiler.
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Dec 18, 2018 05:40
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car helmets imo
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George posted:car helmets imo if the government were serious about safety yeah you'd be required to wear one in the car also seatbelts would be 5 point restraints
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no, man. like, a helmet, but for your car to wear
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George posted:car helmets imo H.P. Hovercraft posted:if the government were serious about safety yeah you'd be required to wear one in the car banning infotainment would do more good than both of those
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Combat Theory posted:banning infotainment would do more good than both of those Pushing stricter driving training and requirements like Germany has would do more than that.
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nobody will do any of this until it's the easy alternative to car helmets
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:if the government were serious about safety yeah you'd be required to wear one in the car if we're going down this path we might as well skip to the end and say "the government would abolish private automobile ownership altogether"
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:if we're going down this path we might as well skip to the end and say "the government would abolish private automobile ownership altogether"
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:if we're going down this path we might as well skip to the end and say "the government would abolish private automobile ownership altogether" hell yeah
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:if the government were serious about safety yeah you'd be required to wear one in the car just install a hans
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FMguru posted:this but all private property i don't think this is really germane to transportation safety but yeah sure
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oh wait i'm a huge dumbass. no private property means no tesla cars. entirely germane.
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today's going to be the first time in my adult life without a car for more than a day--going to Denver for interviews and it's all downtown so hopefully public transit/these weird scooter things (e: or my feet ofc) can carry the day feels weird, but not unwelcome--long as I'll be able to get around somewhat successfully, anyway guess I'll see Ciaphas fucked around with this message at 19:28 on Dec 18, 2018 |
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Ciaphas posted:today's going to be the first time in my adult life without a car for more than a day--going to Denver for interviews and it's all downtown so hopefully public transit/these weird scooter things (e: or my feet ofc) can carry the day source your quotes
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exploded mummy posted:source your quotes -me, 2018
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Yes, use your feet, maybe you'll even come to appreciate them more
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Or ride a bike 
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Dumb Lowtax posted:Yes, use your feet, maybe you'll even come to appreciate them more New foot fetish acquired
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AI electric vehicle/tesla stan thread current hot take: getting a pilot's license is no harder than getting a driver's license, just more expensive
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Sagebrush posted:AI electric vehicle/tesla stan thread current hot take: getting a pilot's license is no harder than getting a driver's license, just more expensive tbh performing a stall recovery is a thing in both planes and cars. i dont think they make you do that for the driver's license tho.
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Sagebrush posted:AI electric vehicle/tesla stan thread current hot take: getting a pilot's license is no harder than getting a driver's license, just more expensive we need super precise odometers so drivers could navigate by dead reckoning with a Thomas Guide
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Sagebrush posted:AI electric vehicle/tesla stan thread current hot take: getting a pilot's license is no harder than getting a driver's license, just more expensive i saw that and loled always in some obtuse defence of tesla using the name autopilot for adaptive cruise control and lane keeping
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roadways should have the same level of regulation as airspace then
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:if the government were serious about safety yeah you'd be required to wear one in the car would switching from 3 to 5 points actually be safer? racecars with 5 points don't have airbags usually, right? genuinely curious
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i'm also unconvinced about the benefits of airbags in lower-speed collisions so yeah i'd trade them for better restraints in a heartbeat getting your skull wanged against the window or the a-pillar by one is no fun
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SENSUAL DAD KISS posted:would switching from 3 to 5 points actually be safer? racecars with 5 points don't have airbags usually, right? yeah dale earnhardt would probably still be alive if he had been using his restraints properly
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:i'm also unconvinced about the benefits of airbags in lower-speed collisions so yeah i'd trade them for better restraints in a heartbeat i don’t wang my skull, i schlong it
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:i'm also unconvinced about the benefits of airbags in lower-speed collisions so yeah i'd trade them for better restraints in a heartbeat Yeah that I can see, I'd much rather be restrained by a belt than hit with an airbag Shaggar posted:yeah dale earnhardt would probably still be alive if he had been using his restraints properly wasn't it that he had the 5 point on correctly but it broke and he despised the idea of a neckbelt? i don't think anybody was using them at the time he died I guess I'm wondering if a racing collision differs in some way from a road one
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yeah a head restraint definitely would have saved him cause he basically smashed his face on his steering wheel. but also his 5 point harness was installed incorrectly because he didn't want it constraining his movement.
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:i'm also unconvinced about the benefits of airbags in lower-speed collisions so yeah i'd trade them for better restraints in a heartbeat well good thing they have airbags in every surface now so the a-pillar is 30 feet wide and constantly obscures your vision.
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SENSUAL DAD KISS posted:would switching from 3 to 5 points actually be safer? racecars with 5 points don't have airbags usually, right? if you're using a 5 point system like a hand, you're not going to have forward whiplash on the head which greatly increases your chances of survival https://twitter.com/Jerrycheong/status/1064207428005347328?s=19 the driver lived through this
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seatbelts are absolutely the best form of safety restraint. airbags are officially categorized as "supplemental restraint systems" for a reason. note that american airbags are more dangerous than european or japanese market airbags; they deploy faster and harder. this is because the foreign logic is "if you can't be bothered to put on your seat belt, you are a moron, and we don't have a duty to compensate for your stupidity." the airbags are designed to keep glass from flying into the car, to restrain your limbs, to keep your head from hitting the window, etc, but not to keep your body in the seat. in america, lobbyists fought hard to make the airbags protect people who had chosen not to wear their seat belt, and eventually prevailed. so american airbags must duplicate the belt's function of preventing a person of american size from being ejected from the car in a collision, and as a result operate much more quickly and with greater force. this is why they break noses and give you concussions (the effects of course being even more pronounced when you aren't wearing the belt). see also: american cars all having a secret konami code to permanently disable the seatbelt warning chime because muh first amendment rights or whatever.
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exploded mummy posted:the driver lived through this 
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Yeah she was teleported through time just before the moment of impact and was meant to be harvested for her organs but she escaped.
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it's really insane what humans can live through if 1) they're strapped in place 2) they're wearing a helmet hell even just the helmet (+racing suit) part. motogp racers crash their motorcycles at 150mph and just slide a hundred feet on their butt and get up and jump around in anger
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