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Basically a rollercoaster ride at an amusement park that simuilates the movements of a car crashing and rolling at certain speeds. There could be levels of extremeness such as 'driving past a school at 40klm/h' up to the massive 'catching the side rail 240klm/h on the straight at the indy and spinning
end to end'. obviously the safety harness for riders would be engineered to prevent any injury to the occupant/s. But if you've ever wondered what it would be like to actually crash a car at high speed, now's your chance!
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Crashing feels like shit. Crashing at high speed feels like shit so much that your brain tries not to form memories of it. The invitation to participate willingly in a high speed car crash holds absolutely no appeal to me at all. If it was safe (no brain/skull impact) then it wouldn't be a real simulation. |
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Having said that, there may be some merit in allowing drivers to experience a violent deceleration from 50 km/h to zero, accompanied by an airbag in the face. Staggering out of the "ride", bruised, with burn marks from the seatbelt, black eyes, possible nosebleed, feeling like they've been run over by a steamroller, would do wonders to encourage caerful driving. |
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For added realism, there should be a mechanism for striking the rider hard on the knees and shins, and a shower of little bits of glass. |
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My local police force used to have a car crash simulator that they'd take around to public events.
It was a short inclined plane with a trolley on which was mounted a couple of car seats. The trolley was cranked up to the top of the plane and released. A hard stop at the bottom simulated the impact.
Most people who rode it were visibly shaken, even though the maximum speed attained was just 2mph.
What [WcW] said. [-] |
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Lots of video and noise, but slowed down. |
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Crashing in slow motion, shouldn't damage too much except your psyche. |
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Hydraulic mechanisms in the seatback and dash/steering components could smash you slowly but firmly prior to the glass bits explosion. Can we make it flip upside down too? |
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What quantity is meaningfully measured in kilolumens
per hour? |
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If I didn't know, would that make me a light weight ? |
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//engineered to prevent any injury// [-] |
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