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Originally Posted by Def
The more you can keep the structure of the car from folding in, the more strength it provides in the event of a roll over. This is as basic a statement as the sky is blue...
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AHHHH nope not as basic as you think you fucking moron, crumple zone! if crumple zone's were not beneficial in crashes manufactures would makes cars rigid like tanks. Allowing crumpling around rigid structure reduces the forces applied. Take for instance, your arm. It takes 4lbs of shock pressure to brake the bone. But because you have muscle mass, fat, and 2 layers of skin it takes roughly ~22lbs or more. Again what do you expect to happen? You increase rigidity of something on the car to protect a specific thing that means something else is going to give. That cage in the s14 protected the driver and he was in the drivers seat. If there was a front passenger he would of survived too. With that cage you can't really fit anybody in the rear so it is ok that it is crimpled to save the lives of the people in the front. But like i said before the cages only increase the survivability on crashes and roll overs, who knows, your knock off steering wheel hub might break and stab you in the chest. But to say that the car needs to be more rigid in a crash is just bad science. If a car is more rigid it will transfer all the kinetic energy to the most flimsy:IE YOU. If a car is more rigid you will hurt more from the crash and most likely snap your neck or cause major brain damage.
fucking idiot, I'm not even a structural engineer and that idea is what is basic to me.