Barricade

[inkjunkie]

Texas A&M’s Transportation Institute built a truck resistant barricade....pretty impressive....

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhfZlznuaVE#t=30"]Video: Texas A&M Transportation Institute Crash Video - YouTube[/ame]

 

[RustyRatRod]

That's pretty effective. But something tells me terrorists will not aim for a barricade.

 

[67Dart273]

That's pretty effective. But something tells me terrorists will not aim for a barricade.

X2. Google up the "Maginot Line" sometime

 

[Frankie]

Wouldn't a diesel engine in that truck change the crash results?

The truck would still stop, and the occupants would still be dead, but, a truck size diesel adds momentum, inertia, mass, and shrapnel. I'm pretty sure the results would be quite different.

 

[67Dart273]

I would have thought that IS a diesel. Pretty amazing, but the cost of this would be incredible

"The terrorists have won" They all have us spending more on protection for everything than damage they could ever cause. Either way, they have reached their goals.

 

[ocdart]

How about we just line the border with those?

 

[Frankie]

I would have thought that IS a diesel.

There was no engine in the truck. Should have been a diesel, though.

 

[1968dartman]

I would NOT want to be the driver in that truck if it would have had one!!

 

[RustyRatRod]

I would have thought that IS a diesel. Pretty amazing, but the cost of this would be incredible"The terrorists have won" They all have us spending more on protection for everything than damage they could ever cause. Either way, they have reached their goals.

Exactly. All because our "leader" has a ****** in his pants.

 

[RustyRatRod]

There was no engine in the truck. Should have been a diesel, though.

I sure didn't see one either.

 

[Vitamin c]

you can see the engine/transmission come out the bottom and hit the ground.

 

[funwithfuel]

you can see the engine/transmission come out the bottom and hit the ground.

Watched it several times, you can see the forward prop shaft drop at the carrier bearing and just hang when the rest of the chassis travels another 2 1/2-3'. That indicates the powertrain was stopped by the hoop. That was a mid size day cab low profile chassis. Might have been different with a vocational chassis with some ground clearance. Good idea just not the end all answer in my opinion. Didn't matter to that mother and child in the lexus several months back. She's still dead for no good reason.

 

[RustyRatRod]

X2. Google up the "Maginot Line" sometime

I don't have to. I went to school.

 

[diymirage]

How about we just line the border with those?

would do you no good, those little buggers would just crawl underneath it