The wee hours, Monday, October 11, 2004 • 3 responses
A good friend of mine did his Ph.D. research on something I’d never be able to describe with any precision, but it had something to do with car frames and keeping them together. In any case, for quite some time, he was The Authority regarding all-things-car. He once explained, perhaps in jest, that the reason German cars were so safe was because German engineers would find the minimum thickness required to keep a cabin intact in a collision, then triple it. …