On Fri, 30 May 2003 00:16:30 -0700, Pierce Nichols <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >50 gees or higher peak acceleration is not unreasonable. >> >>Please. What's the most you've ever taken whole body? > > I hit a tree doing somewhere between 20 and 30 mph (not sure, I >was asleep at the time -- hence the crash) in an early 80s Rabbit a number >of years back. My injuries amounted to a charlie horse in my thigh and a >hairline fracture to the bridge of my nose, both due to contact with the >steering wheel. It was about 3a and I walked about a quarter of a mile for >help. The front of the car had crushed maybe half a meter, probably less -- >it was made before crumple zones were a standard item on cheap passenger >cars. For the low end of the crash speed range, that works out to an >average deceleration of about 100 gees, applied very quickly (fraction of a >second). If you were doing 20 mph and you stopped in half a meter, you took 8 g. I hit a Buick on the Bay Bridge once, while I was driving a Honda. (Don't hit a Buick with a Honda. You won't accomplish *anything*) He had better brakes. (Don't let Clayton Road Auto Parts work on your brakes - they don't call them CRAP for nothing) Impact speed was about 25 mph, and it stove in my grille about a foot. That's 21 g, and I was wearing my seat/chest belt. Good thing, or I'd have hit the steering column with my sternum. As it was, it HURT. My ribs ached for days. And that's only 21 g. You want to have the passengers take 50? Remind me not to ride with you. Wait, I already don't ride with you. Heck, there's my problem, I forgot who I was talking to. Only guy I know who has to contour fly his pickup, because he's going too fast for nap of the earth. :-) -R -- "We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true." -- Robert Wilensky, UC Berkeley _______________________________________________ ERPS-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.erps.org/mailman/listinfo/erps-list
