08-30-2006, 03:35 PM
+1 for Rex
I witnessed a rollover a few weeks ago. If you want to be anal about it, I witnessed a car roll five times and comes to rest on it's roof. The driver seat was in it's full upright position when I looked to make sure that all the occupants were out. The car was an 02+ Subaru Forester.
The logic also doesn't make sense to me. As Chan pointed out, wouldn't the occupant of the seat have to make contact with the roof with a significant amount of force in order to urge the recliner into... reclining? I imagine a force like that would probably hurt a person. Is there a one-way mechanism inside some recliners that senses when the car is on it's lid and is supposed to free the piece in motion?
Also, why would you want the seat to recline, other than to keep the roof from crushing you? It seems to me that if the seat tilted backwards during an accidnet, and that accident were in progress, that if there was motion after the roof collapsed that the occupant would become a projectile since the belts would be slack without a board (the seat) to hold them in place?
I witnessed a rollover a few weeks ago. If you want to be anal about it, I witnessed a car roll five times and comes to rest on it's roof. The driver seat was in it's full upright position when I looked to make sure that all the occupants were out. The car was an 02+ Subaru Forester.
The logic also doesn't make sense to me. As Chan pointed out, wouldn't the occupant of the seat have to make contact with the roof with a significant amount of force in order to urge the recliner into... reclining? I imagine a force like that would probably hurt a person. Is there a one-way mechanism inside some recliners that senses when the car is on it's lid and is supposed to free the piece in motion?
Also, why would you want the seat to recline, other than to keep the roof from crushing you? It seems to me that if the seat tilted backwards during an accidnet, and that accident were in progress, that if there was motion after the roof collapsed that the occupant would become a projectile since the belts would be slack without a board (the seat) to hold them in place?
When it comes to Ryan Jenkins, the story ends with me putting him in the wall.
2009 Speed Triple | 2006 DR-Z400SM | 1999 CBR600F4 | 1998 Jeep Cherokee
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2009 Speed Triple | 2006 DR-Z400SM | 1999 CBR600F4 | 1998 Jeep Cherokee
-Ginger