RE: Safety

[ntam@eagle.ssd.loral.com (Wallace Tam)]

>> One other thing to take into consideration about the Indy cars.  They are
>> made out of a monocock shell, I'm not sure, but I think it's considerably
>> stronger than most road cars.  Those things are ment to crash at 150+mph.
>> A car isn't.

I don't think even a F1 driver will survive a 150+mph crash *straight on*
into a concrete wall.  Just because the vehicles is moving 150+mph does
not mean the impact velocity is 150+mph.  The impact velocity is
Vcar*sin(angle with wall).  if (angle with wall) is small, so is the
impact velocity.

Wallace