tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1910244387313210404.post5361319276646327656..comments2023-06-18T04:51:52.378-07:00Comments on Arkanabar's Eclectic Rants: The Death of Peak OilArkanabar Ilarsadinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00098504849466846551noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1910244387313210404.post-79175656775017541702010-01-23T03:01:16.650-08:002010-01-23T03:01:16.650-08:00Apologies for rushing to reply.
Additional consid...Apologies for rushing to reply.<br /><br />Additional consideration: the important factor for passenger safety is "How much of the passenger's energy is dissipated in an impact?" All else being equal, would you really expect a larger car, with more materials, will dissipate that energy as or less effectively than a smaller one?<br /><br />Power = force/time. If the car has 1 meter of crush space, the power of the impact can be less than if it only has 0.5m of crush space, because there is more time for me to decelerate.Arkanabar Ilarsadinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00098504849466846551noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1910244387313210404.post-84826903424624052542010-01-23T02:44:45.191-08:002010-01-23T02:44:45.191-08:00Sure, if you have an unlimited budget, there's...Sure, if you have an unlimited budget, there's no reason to compromise. However, very few people are in the position of having an unlimited budget.<br /><br />If you can, find me an engineer who will tell you that you cannot make up for cheap and crude materials by making things bigger.Arkanabar Ilarsadinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00098504849466846551noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1910244387313210404.post-19048601450902279402010-01-21T12:05:29.608-08:002010-01-21T12:05:29.608-08:00Lighter cars are deadly? Not according to insuran...Lighter cars are deadly? Not according to insurance company analysis or logic. Momentum equals mass times velocity squared, meaning the more mass a car has, the more energy it carries into a crash.<br /><br />Indy racecars are light and go 200 miles per hour but drivers survive crashes better than NASCAR and much better than your or my cars going even half that speed. People are killed nearly daily by tractors that themselves are built like tanks. <br /><br />The idea that a larger vehicle, especially one based on a truck frame, is wrong. Safety is a factor of smart engineering, not mass.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com