maka wrote:Mukiri wrote:vky wrote:roll cages are not practical on everyday cars, the problem is that policy in kenya limits most guys to buy 7yr old cars for tax saving purposes and as such majority of guys dont get to enjoy the top tech safety systems that are standard features in todays cars but were options in cars seven years ago, take for instance, this unfortunate gathecha chap might have survived the crash if he was driving a 2012 toyota crown with early warning radar system that warns the driver of an impending crash and even applies the brakes early to avoid the crash, if he was going too fast the early warning system would have alerted him and if he were to swerve then the ESC system would have checked in to stabilize the car.
what needs to happen is that KRA needs to review its tax protocols for used cars and KEBS should do away with the eight year rule and introduce a three year rule, this will reduce road accident fatalities significantly
Ditto ^^. However, even that 7/3-yr rule shouldn't be there! Why can't we have manufacturers making their cars here? Why import? Capital flight!
I'd much rather we have Chinese making imitations locally than what we are... a dumping ground.
And what happened to the no-trucks/buses-at-night law?
Now we are making excuses...running away from the reality.
@vky, I do no understnd what you mean (the text in red above).
Gordon Gekko wrote:@D32, how would a roll cage have helped in this situation? The guy drove under a truck and the car was sheared, quite similar to Jules Bianchi in the Japanese Grand Prix who by the way had a roll cage.....Roll cages mitigate what the name suggests, rolls to prevent collapsing roofs. He would probably have had a better chance if he had side airbags. RIP.
To be technically correct, I would not call what is found with the F1 a roll cage, instead, call it a "roll bar".
E.g.
Or this for pick-up's
The F1 rollbar is blended with the air intake.
While the F1 driver can be protected from rolls, the driver is exposed from the front.
Below are examples of a roll cage.
I cannot say that a roll cage will guarantee no loss of life, rather, I'm saying that a roll cage will greatly help prevent the loss of life by the manner in which the occupants are protected. I also mentioned the use of a helmet.
They tried to bury us, they didn't know we were seeds.