the bad thing - one LITTLE bang up and you have to replace the ENTIRE piece thanks to crumple zones. [...snip...] Had I had an old piece of crap, I could have just banged out the dent and replaced the light.
the good thing - this is exactly the sort of design practice that keeps a LARGE bang up from shoving the steering column through your chest, your head from splattering across the dashboard, the hood from decapitating you, and the floor from crushing your legs.
having totaled a car which gave its life to keep my girlfriend and i alive -- the tradeoff is worth it. more than worth it. my life is worth more than my car's indestructability, because indestructable cars usually achieved that at the cost of the destruction of their drivers. i love my granddaddy's 1969 Pontiac Starchief, but i would never want to be inside of it during an accident. i'd rather be in a motorcycle accident than an accident inside an "American Steel"-era car.
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the good thing - this is exactly the sort of design practice that keeps a LARGE bang up from shoving the steering column through your chest, your head from splattering across the dashboard, the hood from decapitating you, and the floor from crushing your legs.
having totaled a car which gave its life to keep my girlfriend and i alive -- the tradeoff is worth it. more than worth it. my life is worth more than my car's indestructability, because indestructable cars usually achieved that at the cost of the destruction of their drivers. i love my granddaddy's 1969 Pontiac Starchief, but i would never want to be inside of it during an accident. i'd rather be in a motorcycle accident than an accident inside an "American Steel"-era car.