Archive for 27 September 2004
Safety cars applied to everyday life
27 September 2004 in Root | Comments (0)
It was interesting to read in last weekends newspaper Pohjalainen about a new safety concept in road construction areas. We Finns being a motor-sports-country, we tend to press the pedal to the metal all too often near road construction workers. That, as you can imagine, isn’t safe for the guys working to keep the roads up to standard.
Enter the Norwegian idea to have a escort car that heads the car-line moving thru a construction area. It is very much like the idea of safety car in Formula 1 racing and other almost equal motorsport events — as CART (or whatever that is called nowadays). In Formula 1, however it is more than vital to have a safety car to navigate the approx. 300 km/h fast cars away from razor-sharp carbonfiber debris and clean-up crew. In real life, this idea shouldn’t have to be implemented but it seems that changing our racing-attitude amongst the male population is quite a complicated task to accomplish.
Thinking back, I can only wonder why this idea wasn’t implemented earlier…