I see Axl Rose leaning over on stage singing into a microphone with a big red arrow sticking him in the butt.

Anybody...?


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The Jeep was the first to fail this test with a rollover. Apparently the solid front axle bends and acts as a ramp.

I was thinking about car safety and how the biggest variable is likely the driver...how specific cars are driven on average, and it struck me that the best way to promote public safety would be to make your maximum speed limit variable based on gvw (gross vehicle weight). This is already done for vehicles with more than two axles or those towing trailers because it's obvious they take longer to stop. The same logic should apply to every car. It's a no brainer that a Humvee takes longer to stop than a Miata, and is far less controllable under emergency braking. For the safety of both those in such larger vehicles and the general public, they should not be allowed to go as fast as cars weighing 1/4 their weight with better brakes.
A side benefit of such a system would be greater average fuel economy, because bigger cars have greater wind resistance (on average) so become less efficient at higher speeds.
Of course, I wouldn't expect that kind of reason to ever fly in America where the most popular car is a heavy truck that's never used for hauling and could be replaced with a Honda Civic with no loss of functionality for >75% of owners....but everyone wants to drive a tank so they're safer, with no thought about what that means for the other cars on the road.

*quality explanation of why crash testing is only a tiny part of real life safety in cars
*promote

I've had that happen in my race buggy a few times, but from broken stub axles. It sucks to see your rear wheel pass you, especially when you're in front on the last lap, but that's when it happened most.

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Those ramps are supposed to be designed with loose rocks in specific sizes. I've seen a few instances where they had to crane the trucks out, they were buried to the axles. It's not just the upward ramp, but the gravel that stops and holds the trucks.

You would like formula off-road, Icelandic off road racing. Those cars have no electronics, just 800 HP motors, industrial gearboxes, and military axles tied together with steel tubing. The things they can do with that minimalism are astonishing.

Not only is there no rim left, there's no brake rotor or stub axle, even the upper A-arm is just gone.
Running from a hit and run I expect....or it's just a Wednesday in Florida.

I'm saying one of the leaf springs broke in front of the axle. Had a '78 F350 with the exact same symptoms.

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That’s really brilliant. The water gets scooped up at the notch on the side, then the water "slides" down in a spiral to the axle and out the other end.

From the yt description. The car has a bent axle from hitting a curb earlier in the day.

How unlucky do you have to be to be hit by a falling light pole? I guess they are just lucky they didn't get hurt.

I don't see a motor... there is no derailleur because he is riding a fixed-gear bike. you can also tell from the way the back wheel meets the frame (axle hole has wheel insert from back and is tightened to desired chain tension).

He probably avoids pedaling down fast decents for this very reason. rpm gets so high it no longer helps to pedal. I see people on fixies riding up and down mountains in my area, the real impressive part is how they climb UP the mountain in such a big gear.

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It depends on how you do it. If you reconfigure the motor/trans so it sits lower overall, but the bottom is the original height, then no. Moving as much weight to the bottom of the frame as possible without lowering the frame itself was always the plan with my race buggy. That said, it does seem like her suspension is Set lower than normal, so she's more prone to high centering, but clearance is usually measured at the axles (except in vehicles with geared hubs that raise the axle above the tub).