Friday, June 5, 2020

Tumblr Thread: Dude Gets Schooled On Car Safety And Physics


This guy got a quick lesson in physics, and that is that physics ain't tossing out any freebies. 

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Vehicle - SheStayFabulous @Shestayfabulous Man old cars really were made to last eme Mang 1/5 Ayton SZN @ReeceDontTweet his car ain't break a sweat

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Text - princealigorna And this is why we used to make cars out of STEEL instead of FIBERGLASS! Sure, fiberglass is a lot lighter in weight and hence a hell of a lot better for gas mileage. But you hit anything at more than 20 mph and the entire body explodes off the fucking thing, and now you're spending more to repair the car than it's worth because you need a entire front end, read end, or side panel. They can't just take the damaged section off, beat it out with a hammer, sand it, and repaint

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Text - becausedragonage You guys are obscenely, dangerously wrong. It's not planned obsolescence, it's physics. Modern cars crumple to absorb and distribute the forces of impact in an accident in an effort to protect the occupants. When cars didn't have those crumple zones, the oc- cupants, being the soft, squishy things they were, took those forces and were mangled or killed in horrible ways. Also, those older cars took hidden damage that often went unnoticed and made them very dangerous to dri

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Text - I recently watched a TV show where a small sedan was run over by the trailer of an eighteen-wheeler. Run. Over. They had to unwrap the crumpled ball of a car from the undercarriage of that trailer. Guess what? The driver suffered only minor injuries because the car collapsed in exactly the way it was designed to so that she, in the very strong frame surrounding the passenger compartment, was protected. And no, don't thank capitalism for these modern cars. Thank Ralph Nader and countless o

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Motor vehicle - GIF GIF by blazepress I'm an estimator for a major insurance company which means I spend all day, every day, around wrecked cars. I've been to the NHTSA, I've attended a crash test. I have actually seen and put hands on both the vehicles in the .gif above. The idea that old cars are somehow built better or are “tanks" or whatever is not only wrong, it's dangerous. New cars are built to "crunch" so you don't have to.

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Land vehicle - This is the 59 Bel Aire post crash - notice that the area where the driver sits is significantly compromised. The person driving this car would have died in this 35mph crash.

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Land vehicle - This is the Malibu - crunched? Yes! But the area where the driver sits is not crushed. I have seen modern cars keep people alive in horrifying accidents. Cars are objectively better and safer in every single way than they were 10, 20, 30 years ago. Anyone who tells you otherwise is wrong. Period. Also modern passenger cars are definitely not made of fiberglass. What even?

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