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> For the same reason your Toyota Camry doesn't have a roll cage. It does though. It's just been engineered integral to the unibody. And there are crumple zo
by timschmidt 1y ago
> For the same reason your Toyota Camry doesn't have a roll cage.
It does though. It's just been engineered integral to the unibody. And there are crumple zones, airbags, seat belts, ABS, emergency braking systems, collision sensors, and more layered defenses in addition.
No sane engineer would argue that removing these layers of defense would make the car safer.
- wizzwizz4 1y agoIf you remove enough of them, then the car is much lighter: in some scenarios (such as when the car has no occupants), that makes it much safer. Of course, these scenarios are relatively rare – but a "sane engineer" could easily make an argument along these lines.
- timschmidt 1y agoStrong disagree. Best practice is to evaluate the likelihood of scenarios along with potential negative impacts and your contrived scenario fails on both counts. It would not survive review. If you are lucky, your senior engineer may consider it a joke. Unlucky and you might be the joke for suggesting it. Either way you'd be liable for such a decision, were it to make it into a production vehicle and result in a death. Which is why many engineers wear the ring. Folks do love to argue though.