Tuesday 12th March 2002

Pedestrian Protection

Clever new system cares for pedestrians when they're being mown down

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[johnnystorm]

Couldn't it be set up to 'fire' them over the side and into soft hedgerows?:-)

[Markus_Warren]

Can't they change it so it moves the ped out of the way, then slaps then about the face for being pillock and not looking where they were going?

[PetrolTed]

quote:Couldn't it be set up to 'fire' them over the side and into soft hedgerows?:-)

[stevenrt]

why not go one step further and incorporate a big 100 l airbag into the bonnet? using a pedestrian collision sensor, a trap door on the bonnet could spring open (the bonnet is non structural anyway so this wouldnt hurt the car's torsional rigidity) and a big airbag could sprout out rapidly. Much better than decelerating the person's head against metal despite how it's angled ...

[M@H]

Imagine if you're doing (ahem!) 90 on the motorway, and one of those bits of foam, polystyrene, old tyre, cardboard box etc. that litter the M5, bumps the front of the car.. potentially non-fatal.. a dent in the bumper perhaps...

But No! the bonnet flies upwards removing all driver visibility and changing the areodynamics of the car dramatically so it nose-dives, then spins round out of control and into other vehicles..

hmmm.. maybe its just me or is there a problem here ?

Cheers
Matt.

[Cotty]

I have a couple of ideas, why not fine pedestrians say £50 if they are hit by a car, the theory being that if they are in the road and get hit then they were not being observent enough. They obviously dont care about their bodies otherwise they might take better care of them but hit them in the pocket and they might look both ways in future.

At the moment a pedestrian can step out in front of a car (irrespective of speed) and if a car hits them then its the cars fault.

So fine pedestrians

Paul

[gnomesmith]

Don't forget that if you clobber a pedestrian you, as driver, pay the cost of the Emergency services call out even if the blame lies with the pedestrian.

You get better value if you hit a whole ambulance load in one go.

[nonegreen]

This is bad news, if it goes into production and saves lives the government will ignore it an claim success for speed cameras.

[steve harrison]

If you want to do something practical to help people who wander into the road try banning the silly bull bars or whatever you call them that people bolt onto their Canyoneros.

There's not a lot of point in trying to reduce pedestrian injuries by making cars more friendly when people stick lumps of RSJ on the front because according to their tiny brains they look "cool"

[Jason F]

quote:
If you want to do something practical to help people who wander into the road try banning the silly bull bars or whatever you call them that people bolt onto their Canyoneros.

AS far as I am aware (and it ain't far) they are banned on New cars. But of course being the sensible Govt people we have you can have them fitted aftermarket and it is not a problem. Not at all a case of being seen to do something whilst actually doing F***all

[hertsbiker]

quote:
Don't forget that if you clobber a pedestrian you, as driver, pay the cost of the Emergency services call out even if the blame lies with the pedestrian.

You get better value if you hit a whole ambulance load in one go.

No way!! surely you're mistaken? I'm not paying for some drunken tosser to to be 'ported to hospital.

I think we're gonna see "Hit & run" on the increase.

Bull bars are cool. Very cool. I would LOVE bull bars. They inspire fear from other road users, and respect in car parks. A set of tubular "aero" format bars would be great, if carefully designed for the vehicle in the first place. Oooops, did I say something rude? why are you lot recoiling from this post? ah, never mind... Gimme a one, gimme a two, gimme a flame !!
Sorry, I've been on the

C

[CarZee]

quote:

quote:
Don't forget that if you clobber a pedestrian you, as driver, pay the cost of the Emergency services call out even if the blame lies with the pedestrian.

You get better value if you hit a whole ambulance load in one go.

No way!! surely you're mistaken? I'm not paying for some drunken tosser to to be 'ported to hospital.

Perfectly true - has been for 7 years that I know of ..

[gnomesmith]

My last one cost me 72.5P in 1964, good news was that the insurers paid up and it didn't affect my NCB.

I think it might be a bit more costly now!

[nonegreen]

Isn't electronic tagging the answer to the pedestrian problem, or maybe I am getting mixed up with amputation. I know how about drive by shootings?