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    Red face Don't tell Scroobie.

    Checking out DW-TV, the other day. It appears that some in the EU are crazier than Scroobie. News report of an idea to fit external, yes, external air-bags to vehicles for pedestrian protection. Next it will be a man with a red flag shouting --Warning crazed motorist following-- just like when pappy learned to drive.

    Shorty. - getting more cynical by the day -

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    The trouble is that vehicles sold here will eventually have to be EU compliant. Thay are also talking about making all passenger vehicles have to have low slung, sloping fronts to protect pedestrians, and that will include 4wds. The days of the tradiationally shaped 4wd are nearly over.

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    Angry

    They will never, pry my cold dead hands from my Series Landy, never do you hear me, never.

    Luv's yus awl

    Shorty.

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    Talking

    Nah! I got a series model.

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    I'll be gettin one soon (I hope)

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    Sheer brilliance!!!

    This obviously means airbag dispensers mounted on the front of the car.

    SO when a car hits a pedestrian, the bag inflates at three thousand feet per second, catapulting the hapless bipedal into the next suburb....

    and of course, add the speed of the car and its mass to the equation...

    and the deployment of the bag(s)...

    if the first impact doesn't do you in, your tip into a low earth orbit may be your last sight of the planet, before final (airbagless) impact...

    this'd make a good gag for "The Simpsons"......

    Now where is Isaac Newton?

    There must be an equation for this.




    GQ

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    Quote Originally Posted by Quiggers
    Sheer brilliance!!!

    This obviously means airbag dispensers mounted on the front of the car.

    SO when a car hits a pedestrian, the bag inflates at three thousand feet per second, catapulting the hapless bipedal into the next suburb....

    and of course, add the speed of the car and its mass to the equation...

    and the deployment of the bag(s)...

    if the first impact doesn't do you in, your tip into a low earth orbit may be your last sight of the planet, before final (airbagless) impact...

    this'd make a good gag for "The Simpsons"......

    Now where is Isaac Newton?

    There must be an equation for this.




    GQ

    Thats what I was thinking

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    Surely it would make more sense to fit airbags (and a parachute) to pedestrians

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    Quote Originally Posted by Numpty's Missus
    Sh*t...that man with the red flag is gonna have to be a sprinter!!
    He won't have to run to fast for you Numpty's Missus. I saw how fast you drove along the F3 near Gosford.

    That Scroobie bloke is a dead set pain the rectum. We have had him on our case for yonks about allowing cars to park with near side wheels on the footpath in narrow streets.

    He reckons this is dangerous. What a muppet.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Chenz
    He won't have to run to fast for you Numpty's Missus. I saw how fast you drove along the F3 near Gosford.
    That's because we had some loser in a Pord Palcom slowing us down. Or was he trying to get a better look at the blonde in the drivers seat.
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