well let me put it this way then.
say you're going down the highway, you lose control of your car
and skid into oncoming traffic in your mostly carbon fiber paneled
car.
now let's pretend you hit someone mostly headon. the object
of a car having a bunch of sheet metal is to ASORB THE IMPACT.
it's not a method of protection.
if you were to hit them in your CF car, the CF won't break, infact
it probably won't even dent up really well. it will reflect the
energy back at them, do twice as much damage to their car; and
MOST LIKELY kill them, regardless of what safety measures they
use.
the design behind cars is to asorb impact, not reflect it and make
it bullet proof. You don't see two tanks smashing together at
40mph; if you did, mostly likely several people in them would
die. regardless if they are buckled in or not. because nothing
asorbed the impact.
the ones who wern't buckled down would get smashed against
the closest hard object. and the ones who were would get
their collar bones, pelvic bones and ribs broken from the
seatbelts/straps or worse.
BrokenSupra, you said
they once made some carbon fiber buses to prove a point... northrop made them and to test the strength of the carbon fiber they crashed a car into the bus... the bus was pretty much undamaged... why i know this... because my neighbor works at northrop.
It's not the bus i'm worried about; what happened to the car?
Think about it. that bus sure as hell didnt' asorb the impact, the
car preety much bounced off of it. it's like slamming a car into
a very thick brick wall. the wall doesn't asorb the impact
of course; but the car sure as hell does. go watch crash test
videos.
it's not me i'm completly worried about when driving my car,
it's the people around me. if I was to drive a completly CF
bodypanel car around, knowing that some parts of it are illegal
(if applicable?) and slam into someone, killing them; what do
you think they would do? dismiss it as an accidental death?
hell no, you'd be finding your ass behind bars for second degree
manslaughter.
