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i'm guessing that in accidents, cars very rarely drop on their tops - they either roll and come to rest upside-down, or get hit when they're already turned over
by beachstartup 13y ago
i'm guessing that in accidents, cars very rarely drop on their tops - they either roll and come to rest upside-down, or get hit when they're already turned over/sideways.
- jacquesm 13y agoThe one thing you learn about car accidents is to not make any assumptions at all about how they progress. Cars can get flipped up and land on their roofs easily, and it doesn't take much for this to happen either. It definitely is not the most common accident but it does happen and frequently enough that they test for it.
- beachstartup 13y agoyeah, but from any meaningful height? do they really hoist a car upside down to 10, 15, 20, 30 feet and then drop it on its roof? because that's what the OP was referring to.
- mpyne 13y agoA car could certainly flip up into the air quite a few feet while rotating and then land on the roof.