Why aren't cars designed to collide and be fine?
>pic related, mfw millions of people driving cars every day and they can't collide and nobody thinks that's crazy
newton's 3rd law
I normally don't condone this kind of reaction, but this is some serious Reddit/Imgur/FunnyJunk cancer.
>>13813984
That...doesn't even make sense. OP is an idiot, but that doesn't make any damn sense in relation.
>>13813945
You flunked out of school didn't you.
>>13814122
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>>13813984
Is it because they wouldn't look as aesthetic for carphiles like yourself?
>>13814187
I'll bite.
You need crumple zones, if a car is rigid as fuck, when you collide you're going to absorb all the impact yourself.
if the car absorbs the impact for you, you live.
>>13814187
yes anon that's exactly what it is
>>13814187
Either the car takes the impact or the driver takes the force. Making cars designed to absorb as much force as possible makes them safer for the occupants.
Fender bender in 70s/80s car: You're fine, your wallet's fine. Fender bender in modern car, you're fine, your wallet's not. Big crash in 70s/80s car: You may be dead or severely injured. Big crash in modern car: You can most likely walk away.
>>13813945
>you will never drive a high powered bumper car
>>13813945
Classic case of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. You should be angry at your mother.
>>13814211
Then why don't they make cars that crumple up and then uncrumple themselves and keep driving?
>>13814295
How the fuck is that even feasible you fuck
>>13814295
You cannot possibly be serious. Cars have to generally be rigid to keep everything in working order. If you make them rolling springs nothing works.
>>13814307
How is it feasible to suppose we can cover the earth in massive roads and make billions of cars and have them shuffle around in a 99% self-moderated traffic system but can't make a durable car?
>>13814328
See >>13814230
Your "durable car" hurts the driver more instead.
If you design a car to not absorb the energy of a crash it all goes to the soft squishy occupants and kills them.
>>13814295
quit bitchin and make one anon, if it's as easy as you say you're sitting on a million bucks
>>13814358
I mean a car that absorbs the energy and isn't destroyed by it. Also I'm not strictly talking about large head-on collisions but also small lateral scrapes and deer and things.
>>13814369
Deer fuck cars up, small scrapes just damage paint and maybe bend the fender a little.
>>13814369
You can't have a solid that can reconfigure itself into a new pattern that looks undamaged, at least not yet
>>13814295
youre asking a million dollar question - no, a billion dollar question. if you can answer that, your whole family tree is set for life financially
also youre a troll. why am i even responding
OP you have a point, but there isn't enough money in making an ugly car that can save the passenger and itself after collision. It'd probably run worse, too, being covered in squishy bags/pads that ruin the aerodynamics and aesthetics. Car companies would not be able to sell such an ugly low performance car, and if it did, dealerships and insurance companies would be out of business, and the company would live more off of selling replacement squishy collider's, which require the cars to get damaged to need replacement. There's too much money in the way cars work now; it's hard enough to shift to electric vehicles as a species. This would require some insane legal action to happen, and that would be fought by so many companies, not to mention anyone who likes the look of his car. It'd also be nearly impossible if the other cars on the road don't have the same squishy colliders.
>>13814420
Thanks for giving a serious answer.
>>13813945
Since nobody gave you a real answer: It's because the scale of energy involved in cars is just too high for any realistic system to absorb it and "be fine." Typical cars are several thousand pounds. The amount of energy in an object that heavy moving even at slow speeds is on the same order of magnitude as a couple kilos of high explosives. If you try to attach some kind of big apparatus to the car to make it absorb impact better, aside from looking ridiculous, it will also increase the weight and make the whole problem that much harder.
>>13814434
We gave you tons of serious answers
>>13814211
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>>13814230
/thread
as anon said
>>13813976
>>13814458
Eh.
>>13813945
This, kids, is why you should stay in school / get an education.
>>13813945
>>13814496
>be former physics teacher
>leave after six years because teachers don't make dick in my state
>nagging feeling that maybe i could have saved a handful of ops from being this retarded
>then remember that i had to eat ramen four nights a week to do it
fuck it, let the world burn
unless your drive a 240 then you'll be safe, your car will be fine and you will smite anyting in your way.
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