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From: bhs@siemens.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Seat Belts - blaming the victim
Message-ID: <25300027@siemens.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 6-May-85 10:47:00 EDT
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Posted: Mon May  6 10:47:00 1985
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Very few people can physically survive a crash from 55 mph in a reasonably 
sized car.

If you consider the decelleration that your body would go through,
you would see that there are very high G forces.

It would be survivable if the hood were very long, but then you would have a 
full sized roadboat with the related weight.

Otherwise, it is possible to build almost any size car so that the passenger
cage does not deform at such a crash, simply by welding in enough steel
into the frame.

This approach however would require mucho weight, which, when coupled with
a honda engine would mean excessively slow accelaration.

Bernard H. Schwab