Car/Egg Drops
I'd like to see car crash ratings made into a competitive sport, like egg drops -- well, maybe a little more competitive than that.
I was pleased to read that more small cars are getting better safety ratings. Safety used to be my excuse for driving a big old Volvo -- I figured if everyone else was driving mondo SUVs I should have a little bit of defensive steel around me. But then I thought about egg drop competitions, and decided that you don't actually need mass to create strength.
However, Reuters quotes the senior vice president of the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (who did the recent safety tests) as saying, "There's no escaping the laws of physics ... People in larger, heavier cars fare better in crashes with other vehicles and in single-vehicle crashes than people in smaller ones."
-- is that really an inescapable result of the laws of physics, though? Isn't the opposite what egg drops illustrate? I feel pretty ignorant about the whole thing (you know, physics), but it seems like the whole point of engineering is so we don't have to make everything out of granite and steel.
Anyway, point is, I'd love to watch a bunch of cars get hurled around, and root for my favorite team. Maybe they could put raw eggs inside the heads of the crash test dummies or something.
And in honor of today's Portland weather, everyone's favorite car crash video:
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