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Old Man with a Hat
This is real, recently on 1-95 just north of Daytona, woman was decapitated.
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Geez... Is there an epidemic down there?
"Tesla slams into rear of a parked semi truck at I-75 rest stop
A man and woman from California were killed Wednesday when their Tesla slammed into the back of a tractor-trailer that was stopped at a rest area along I-75 in Alachua County, the Florida Highway Patrol said.
Troopers said the Tesla was headed south on I-75 just before 2 p.m. when it exited for the rest area. For an unknown reason, troopers said the sedan entered the parking lot and struck the rear of the tractor-trailer.
(Courtesy of Florida Highway Patrol)
The driver, a 66-year-old woman, and the passenger, a 67-year-old man, both from Lompoc, California, died at the scene."
73Coupe
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I guess the so-called Mansfield bar was either not installed or too weak in both cases above.
I would hate to be the firefighter who has to jack up that trailer to get to the contents underneath.
Ad I'll bet Elon gets blamed somehow too....
FWIW, I have seen Mansfield bars that are so rusted that they may fail. It is not clear however, that the bar failed in the photo you showed. In that case, the car's design and/or high speed might be at play.
There is a page at IIHS ("the Institute") on this issue. Quoting the relevant bit (emphasis added):
NHTSA issued a proposed upgrade to the rear underride regulations for tractor-trailers in 2015 (Office of the Federal Register, 2015) and finalized the rule in 2022 (Office of the Federal Register, 2022). The final rule largely aligns U.S. regulations with stricter ones in place in Canada since 2007.
In issuing the rule, NHTSA rejected the Institute’s requests to require guard designs with improved performance in offset crashes, to certify guards when attached to a trailer instead of a rigid fixture and to consider reducing the number of trailer types that are exempt from the standard. NHTSA previously decided not to extend underride regulations to single-unit trucks (Office of the Federal Register, 2015).
NHTSA estimated its final rule will have minimal effect because 94% of new trailers already have guards that meet the Canadian standard. Institute crash tests have shown that underride guards built to this standard work well when passenger vehicles strike the center of the trailer’s rear but don’t necessarily prevent underride in crashes involving only a small portion of the truck’s rear. NHTSA recently denied another petition by truck safety advocates asking the agency to require better performance in such crashes (Office of the Federal Register, 2024).
Many trailers already have underride guards that go beyond the federal requirements thanks to the Institute’s own testing program. The IIHS TOUGHGUARD award, introduced in 2017, recognizes rear underride guards that prevent underride in three crash test scenarios — full-width, 50% overlap, and 30% overlap — using a midsize car traveling at 35 mph into the back of a semitrailer. Today, nine North American trailer manufacturers, including the eight largest, produce guards that qualify for the award. Most of the companies have made the improved guards standard on all new trailers.
This one made the rounds on FB.
I never read the full story until now. Seems it was a "triple stacker" and possibly the plastic floor covering didn't help.
I went to the lift's website and they still have a triple stacker listed, but it looks like it's a lot more robust.
I never read the full story until now. Seems it was a "triple stacker" and possibly the plastic floor covering didn't help.
I went to the lift's website and they still have a triple stacker listed, but it looks like it's a lot more robust.
carguy300
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1955 chevy, my favorite year. Thats a shame!
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Old Man with a Hat
"Mansfield bar" I long ago forgot what that was called.... anyways didn't help this kid.
Meanwhile 5 miles down the road...
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Since we are posting up AI Slop, just saw this one, there was another one that I think was real where the restaurant owner shut off (time ended) the buffet and the customer was irate but I don't think I bookmarked it.
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Yea, for those that don't know, when you see the "Sora" watermark somewhere in the video, it's AI.
carguy300
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We were warned about the problems and dangers AI can create.......
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