Head on crash

Asking for trouble imo....

VOLVO PLANNING 'INJURY-PROOF CAR'

Carmaker says it will eliminate deaths and injuries in its cars by 2020

Crash me if you can
Crash me if you can
We’re all up for a bit more safety in our cars, but most of us accept that there is only so much you can do in the face of injury or even death.

Volvo however is not happy to merely decrease the chances of injury – it reportedly wants top eliminate injuries and deaths altogether in its vehicles by 2020.

It is the first carmaker in the world to set such a goal and is understood to be interested in making its cars ‘giant bumpers’ for the passengers inside, reports Reuters.

There will be a myriad of other safety features available, including automatic braking.

The injury-proof car (is anyone else having flashbacks to Knight Rider?) will also be able to steer and find out about the road ahead.

The plan is that even in the most serious crash the driver will escape unhurt.

‘I think if you look into the future, we as a community will not accept that we have injuries,’ said Jan Iverson, head of the Volvo safety team.

‘We have other things that are important in life.’
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http://www.pistonheads.com/news/default.asp?storyId=17995

Safest car in the world matters little once a dangerous driver is thrown into the mix....
 
Cars are no less lethal no matter how safe the soft squidgy things are inside it may be.

That spike analogy doesn't hold any water with me I'm afraid - a dodgy driver will be a dodgy driver doesn't matter what type of car it is!
 
Crowze said:
By that logic bikers would be the slowest on the road, when in general the opposite is true. It's a combination of a whole load of factors, but the most prevalent of these is the driver or rider's attitude, as the dark side said.
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That's not the case. Motorbike riders 'self-select' - i.e. the people who are risk-loving ride motorbikes. If you wanted to be safe you wouldn't ride a motorbike. Goes hand in hand with increasing marginal utility and other odd personality traits.
 
Freefaller said:
That spike analogy doesn't hold any water with me I'm afraid - a dodgy driver will be a dodgy driver doesn't matter what type of car it is!
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I'm not sure its as simple as that, we all have a level of perceieved risk which we are comfortable with, if the spike analogy doesn't quite work for you, then try this one, picture a balcony with a large drop off the side of it, if there are no railings around it, people will be careful to keep a foot or so from the edge, install railings, and people will get much closer and even sit and lean on them, no railings at all are most likely safer than loose railings!
 
I was on those roads this weekend and saw two crashes, one was an old woman pulling across the dual carriage way into the path of a 206, the other was an old man rear ending somebody turning right . Obviously the common factor here is old people. They should be made to take a retest to make sure they can still drive.
 
laissez-faire said:
That's not the case. Motorbike riders 'self-select' - i.e. the people who are risk-loving ride motorbikes. If you wanted to be safe you wouldn't ride a motorbike.
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Rubbish.
There are a LOT of people out there who ride motorbikes because they cannot afford to run a car, not because they're making some kind of a "living on the edge" statement. Plus as a group. bikers are a more proficient group of road users than car drivers are. Bikers understand roadcraft to a much greater degree than the bulk of car drivers, they also tend to be more observant too.
There is, of course a damn good reason for this. If they did not posess these skills, some retard in a car would wipe them out.
[TW]Fox;11640309 said:
No. People drive like idiots becuase they beleive they will never crash. Not becuase they think it wont hurt when they do.
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Exactly.
The thought that their actions may cause them to crash never occurs to these "road captains"
 
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