[Land-speed] Hans Device and Safety

[Bryan Savage]

Doug

In my opinion , that data does not exist. Modeling would not be possible
because data on past crashes has probably been destroyed , if not , it is
not available anyway.
Too bad. In my opinion, data about past crashes would allow safer cars.
As it is, generic rule changes are made based on the SCTA's decision.
I don't know if anyone on the board is s Mech. Engineer, but I think
better idea's would come from the 300-400 participants than a dozen
well meaning folks sitting around a table.
IBM had a project in the early '70's and management didn't want to spend
money to improve it because they plans to stop selling and support it. 
It was
opened to  the customers for suggestions and we got a  flood of code from
our customers that they had written to meet their needs. The customers
improved the product so much that it is still in service and making IBM 
money.
That's what happens when you get a large number of interested and involved
people solving problems.

Just my opinion folks,

Bryan




Doug Odom wrote:
> OK I went to the hansdevice web site. After looking at I think every page I
> never found any G force numbers for LSR type racing cars. Where did they test?
> Who's cars did they use? When did they do it?
>
> I go back to the very first question of my email " Does anyone have any real
> data on the G's we are getting in a LSR crash?"
>
> Doug Odom in big ditch