Doug: Good point and clarification. Some comments were referring to the
physical limits of the human body as well as the G forces attenuated by the
various devices. That information is well quantified and readily available.
Your point about lack of accelerometer data, specific to LSR is a good one.
That is why I posted my "Accident Data Acquisition" comment today. 3 axis
accelerometers, or "black box DAQ" are becoming robust and more reasonable
in cost. Costs would still be too much for individuals but it might be
within reach of an association seeking better information than currently.
The venues you mention have already done such data collection at, I'm sure,
great expense. I am not playing " safety vs cost" or cost/benefit here or
making a criticism of any person or organization. All I'm pointing out is,
instead of passing the costs along to individual racers, there may be a
method of lowering the total DAQ cost by using a few units shared among
everybody. -Elon
-----Original Message-----
From: Doug Odom Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2008 2:52 PM
Elon, There seems to be some confusion about the "data". I for one was
trying to find out if there was any "Real Data" on the G forces that LSR
cars have experienced in their crashes. I know Indy cars routinely
experience G Forces of 45 to 60 G's when they hit the outside or (snip . . .
)
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