I agree. It IS horrendous.
One of the ideas that's been discussed on some of the other lists is a crew
chief switch that would send a digitally encoded signal (unique to each
car) to either shut off the fuel supply...or one that would have to be held
down to keep the fuel supply running. I don't know...just something other
people have talked about.
Ray
At 04:23 PM 04/06/2005, Benn wrote:
>Oh, my god, that is just horrendous. My sympathies to the family.
>
>After the shock at such an incredible event, my mind goes to "how to
>automatically shut down a vehicle as soon as it is upside down". A
>negative-vertical-g-detecting-only accelerometer near the rear axle?
>But how many vertical G's would be involved in a "slightly" abnormal run
>with a bit of bouncing, vibration, etc.? So some filtering, lower
>limit/threshold testing, etc., seems likely necessary. Or maybe the
>auto manufacturers have this sorted out already, since some cars (Ford
>sticks in my mind, but maybe most cars now with electric fuel pumps)
>have such shutoffs, albeit not subject to the same environment has a
>large-bore fuel dragster.
>
>What a sad event.
>Benn
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