[Land-speed] Hans Device and Safety

Skip Higginbotham saltrat at pahrump.com
Mon Sep 8 14:37:18 MDT 2008


Bryan,
My data logger has accelerometer capability fore/aft and lateral. Why 
wouldn't that work in the event of an upset? Has anyone looked at 
their data logger to see?
Skip



At 11:17 AM 9/8/2008, Bryan Savage wrote:
>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
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