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Vehicles often crash into things beside a highway.
by ape4 6y ago
Vehicles often crash into things beside a highway.
- bialpio 6y agoPlanes sometimes fall on people's roofs. Let's not optimize for edge cases here?
- jeffbee 6y agoThis has to be the most ignorant comment ever posted on HN. In a typical year how many aircraft crash into structures? Zero. There are more than fifteen thousand car crashes in the USA every day.
- kube-system 6y agoThe entire reason medians exist is because they are a crash safety device. Consideration for crashes is not an edge case, it’s the entire point of a median.
- evan_ 6y agoThat will surely be taken into consideration from the start, and they will be designed in easily replaceable sections. If a car hits a section maybe it will be disabled but the rest of the cells will be fine and a crew will be dispatched to repair or replace the damaged cells.
- kube-system 6y agoSurely it is cheaper to simply place the panel somewhere else than it is to: 1. Pay for thousands of additional broken panels on a recurring basis 2. Pay people to replace thousands of broken panels 3. Shut down highways for utility work to replace thousands of broken panels 4. Design the panels to meet crash safety design considerations that the structures currently in the median were designed to 5. Add additional electrical safety standards unique to a panel array that designed to withstand car crashes. Really, this is complete silliness.