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A fatal crash at only 12 mph?
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If you notice how the head accelerates downward into the car, it's realistic that the crash could be fatal. Gymnasts use similar concepts of decreasing-radius momentum to get ridiculously high rotation rates on their flips and twists.
At least the car was ok. It looks like the Segway made it out in one piece too.
Imagine putting an extra 50 pounds on your FRC bot and juicing
up its speed to ~17fps. Then imagine it coming straight at you full speed. Pretty scary. It could even weave around a bit on its journey, as if it were avoiding other people and will avoid you too... and it's still pretty scary. John posted a
photo over a year ago on these forums, and the commentary on the photo makes many parodies about safety and natural selection in an technological world. My comments above echo most of those sentiments.