Driving me sane?

[shadevalk]

Why is it that driving is so compelling for me? To me, it's all that I want to drive. I guess, like some people get into the many emotions of film and music for example, I see that same human emotion in the works of engineers and designers in the cars. A Bentley's woodgrain dash and leather seat, the staccato of a ferrari on the limit, right

Comments

[ballsmcsteel]

Driving is ok. I perfer when there is no one else on the road as all the things I can ever rember coming close to crashing into have been other people.

[mcfodder]

Just get an ass-ramming bar!

[pimpfish]

They want to ban ass ramming bars because they are a danger to pedestrians. I think it doesnt matter what the hell youve got on the front of your car if you hit someone they are going to be fucked either way...

[sir_spanner]

I think the problem is with both 4WD and cars with roo, bull or nudge bars is that they tend to force a pedestian under the car rather then them rolling up onto the bonnet.

I don't know about you but I would rather take my chances rolling over a car then under it!

Roo bars have no business in the city.....

[mcfodder]

Poo on you!

[pimpfish]

Be interesting to see how many less people would die after they ban them by being run over and how many more people would die in car accidents with roos etc when they didnt have them. Id say more people are involved in accidents that need them than people are being hit by them.

[sir_spanner]

I would have thought more people would die not so much from hitting a roo but from swerving to avoid it and instead hitting a tree or something. If you hit a roo full on even at a 110 you would have to be pretty unlucky to die from it.

A roo bar is not going to save you from a tree.....

[shadevalk]

I think roo bars might help in the 'higher than planned for by engineers' speed collisions. That's anything over 80 I'd be willing to bet, as it's around 60 or so that most of your NCAP testing happens. Over those kind of speeds, I imagine the bar might help in spreading the trees impact area over more of the front of the car, and use more of the chassis for force distribution, rather than having one part of the car really messed up.

That's a guess, and yeah, they really do make a mess of pedestrians even at fourty or so. It's one of the areas of design now used, for example, mazda's RX8 has these cone shaped things under the bonnet skin. Apprantly helps spread the impact and lessen damage to pedestrians that whack it.

My guess (note that word.) is a well designed roo bar at high speeds or in the country (one which triggers any airbag you have) could be damn handy, but in the burbs and city they're dangerous to others.

Last Night a Bull Bar saved my Life

[pimpfish]

Back in the day, we were pulling into a civic car park in Tom, lees fabled car at the time, and we hit one of those polls. Had he not had a bar on the front, we would have been dead.

i win. thank you.

I just dont like the right wing, oh my god someone has been maybe killed by something indirectly BAN IT approach. People were meant to die, we have no natural predators left, let the humble bull/roo bar fill that needful gap in the ecosystem.

Re: Last Night a Bull Bar saved my Life

[shadevalk]

I like your reason SO much better.