Re: [Spridgets] 58 -67 Lap Belts

["John Leier" <john.leier@leier.org>]

>  Nothing on new cars is meant to take any impact.

It's designed precisely to take the impact and sacrifice itself for the 
greater good of the passenger  :-)

>> We are probably safer in our metal cars, than we would be in a modern
>> plastic one.  Newer cars are generally totaled following relatively minor
>> accidents.

Not sure I follow this logic.  You're safest when the extremeties of the car 
crush (as long as the passenger compartment remains intact).  Any of the 
energy not absorbed by crumple zones are transmitted to the occupants.  That 
is not a good thing.

Our Spridgets aren't designed to crumple.

Animated explanation at 
http://www.k12.nf.ca/gc/Science/Physics3204/Projects2003/SlotA/ProjectA2/link20.htm
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