Nascar press conference

[Lawrence C Leung]

As far as airbags are concerned, to be able to deploy fast enough to be
useful in racing crashes, depending upon the crush zone of the race car,
the bag would have to deploy so fast as to be truly dangerous. At least
with current pyrotechnic technology. 

LL - NY - NOT a NASCAR fan

As for rain running, would you want to be running that near concrete
walls in the rain? I DO think they run in the rain on the road courses,
though I could be wrong. There is something to be said for 3400 lb "race"
cars (or should that be "tanks").

On Wed, 21 Feb 2001 00:45:15 EST JanDebL at aol.com writes:
>- I don't know but I can't help but wonder why collapsible steering 
>columns / 
>air bags     and other common safety items couldn't be adapted in some 
>form 
>and would have helped last Sunday.

>- The archaic design of the cars provide so little traction, they 
>can't run 
>in the rain. (even F 1 runs in the rain).