From: Freeman Craig Presson (dhr@iname.com)
Date: Mon Jun 07 1999 - 17:34:00 MDT
On 7 Jun 99, Eugene Leitl wrote:
> mass drivers). Perhaps we should be driving in foam bubbles.
Showing my age dep't: this compellingly reminded me of a cartoon by
R. Crumb. The caption will suffice as a description: "It's fun to collide in all-
meat cars!"
Perhaps a collision-avoidance system could also control an advanced
acceleration control subsystem (varying the number, type, and position of
charges that fire depending on the momentary acceleration vector on the
passenger compartment). A nice cybernetics/mechanics problem. Definite
design goal: protect the control system to the same extent as the
passengers' wetware.
It also puts some constraints on overall vehicle design, but along the same
lines as what Volvo and others are already doing. It's also limited in what it
can do with side collisions unless you're willing to reshape cars pretty
radically (spherical cars, anyone? multi-vehicle collision modelling on a
pool table?)
"Out yonder!" said the redneck extropian ...
-- fcp@traveller.com (Freeman Craig Presson)
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