November 19, 2007: Bear vs. Truck

glatt · 11-20-2007, 10:05 AM

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Originally Posted by TheMercenary

I doubt your assertion that it would be more unsafe for me

You are confusing mass with rigidity. Sure, the "armor" provides a few hundred pounds of mass, but that is insignificant compared to the weight of the entire truck. You could get the same addition of mass by throwing a few bags of sand in the bed. What the "armor" really does is add rigidity. It keeps the crumple zones from crumpling. Highway fatalities have come down steadily over the decades even while the number of cars on the road have increased. This is due in large part to crumple zones in vehicles. This "armor" defeats that.

TheMercenary · 11-20-2007, 10:08 AM

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Originally Posted by glatt

You are confusing mass with rigidity. Sure, the "armor" provides a few hundred pounds of mass, but that is insignificant compared to the weight of the entire truck. You could get the same addition of mass by throwing a few bags of sand in the bed. What the "armor" really does is add rigidity. It keeps the crumple zones from crumpling. Highway fatalities have come down steadily over the decades even while the number of cars on the road have increased. This is due in large part to crumple zones in vehicles. This "armor" defeats that.

The other thing that has happened on newer trucks is that they are droping the front suspension, which pisses me off because it really changes the way they look, but it does make it safer for other drivers. Not that I really care much about the other guy...

ZenGum · 11-20-2007, 10:12 AM

Doesn't the new model of one of the really big urban SUV soccer-mom-mobiles (maybe Ford Explorer??) have a special bar at the front to stop smaller cars from disappearing under it in collisions? Its a start.

TheMercenary · 11-20-2007, 10:15 AM

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Originally Posted by ZenGum

Doesn't the new model of one of the really big urban SUV soccer-mom-mobiles (maybe Ford Explorer??) have a special bar at the front to stop smaller cars from disappearing under it in collisions? Its a start.

Wouldn't be the Explorer, to small, might be the Expedition. They stopped making the Excursion, and it was as big if not bigger than the Suburban.

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