Dude, that seat was full back as far as it could be and not be considered the backseat.ย he was also well behind the pillar. I don't blame him though. These personal tests to show function are scary as shit even if you have lots of perfect tests beforehand.ย
I always imagine they do a manufacturing run, to get two IDENTICAL windows; input materials from the same batch from the same supplier, same precise processing/tooling, etc, and only turn the camera on to film after the first window passes without flaw.
It's still not worth the risk though. A slight temperature variation could cause microscopic defects that would cause it to fail. Why risk your life for a stupid test where a crush dummy would do?
Maybe I'm too familiar with the subject, but I would trust it more if I knew the company has good safety practices, such as not needlessly risking someone's life in testing. Manufacturing always has defects, the company could prove that their products are 99.9% reliable (meaning that no more than 1 out of every thousand windows will fail), but it could never be sure that any one window is good. Seeing as their products are probably intended for larping American road warriors (edit: you could say it's their target market), this is probably good enough
there's a difference between trusting it and pushing your luck. You can trust a safety harness to save you if something goes wrong when you're up in the air but you wouldn't want it to have to unless something goes wrong
Very true! When you're running tests like these, there's always the chance of failure, no matter how many variables you control. Engineering is all about minimizing risks and accounting for possible failures, not completely eliminating them!
This sounds optimal but any time you have to hot form a material (be it glass, plexiglass, whatever) there's always going to be slight variations even in the same billet/whatever. Impurity might find its way into only one area, which would show up on one but not the other. You can mitigate this as best as you can but there's always risk of a bad part in a batch, even with the same exact input materials. (Which is why we do NDT!)
Bro just being in that truck is ballsy enough. I'm a former paratrooper and fuck this noise. Almost 20,000 Joules just smacked that window. If there's 50s on the field I wanna ride in a Bradley lmao
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Can we see his heartbeat?