[CSX 4039]

Dear thread-

Please explain to me, or the thread how a safety check list will help? Are these things falling apart in the middle of the highway? The only safety things that really matter, absent (presumably rare, since I am not aware of these cars falling apart in the road) severe construction flaws, would be side impact bars, drop down and out engines with crumple zones, air bags, hard metal roofs, large tail lights with center brake lights, etc. If the body of the car is a stiff as a locomotive with no crumple zones to absorb the energy, then the only thing that changes shape in the event of an impact is the driver and passenger. Well demonstrated in the old Indy Roadsters, in the IMAX movie 'Super Speedway'. That great movie showed Indy Watson type roadsters slamming into the wall, bouncing away at nearly the same speed, and nearly intact, and the driver's snapping so hard (whiplash) that surely he died of a broken neck. If the car absorbs the energy in the frame, this doesn't happen nearly as much, no? Every Cobra manufacturer I can think of adveritizes how stiff thier frames are....no?

signed,

Confused