I thought (though I don’t now remember where I heard it or how trustworthy the source) that although being higher up tends to make you feel safer it actually tends to make you less safe because the vehicle is more likely to end up rolling over. Is there any actual benefit to higher CoG?
(You can have higher passengers without higher CoG, which is probably good—but then you need a load of extra mass at the bottom, which means higher fuel costs, more pollution, and maybe less manoeuvrability.)
I was mainly picturing collisions. The vehicle with the higher CG more likely sheers up and plows through the passenger cage of the lower CG vehicle. Or so my physics would imagine.
Ha! You mention editing a missing space? My mean edits per post after post are probably 2+, and for more than a missing space. Seems impossible for me to put a coherent sentence on a page in the first try these days.
[edit] Had to edit this one because a dash was recognized as markup, made into a bullet, and indented the preceding paragraph. Ignorance of the markup law is no excuse. And had to edit again to indicate the edit.
Wait! Somebody had been telling me that they could drag the lower right corner of the text edit box to make it bigger, it seemed like it wasn’t working for me. But I just did it! Yay! I can see a few sentences at once now. Maybe I won’t have to edit my posts again and again now that I can see decent sized chunks at one time.
I thought (though I don’t now remember where I heard it or how trustworthy the source) that although being higher up tends to make you feel safer it actually tends to make you less safe because the vehicle is more likely to end up rolling over. Is there any actual benefit to higher CoG?
(You can have higher passengers without higher CoG, which is probably good—but then you need a load of extra mass at the bottom, which means higher fuel costs, more pollution, and maybe less manoeuvrability.)
[EDITED to fix a typo (missing space).]
You’re right about the rollover issue.
I was mainly picturing collisions. The vehicle with the higher CG more likely sheers up and plows through the passenger cage of the lower CG vehicle. Or so my physics would imagine.
Ha! You mention editing a missing space? My mean edits per post after post are probably 2+, and for more than a missing space. Seems impossible for me to put a coherent sentence on a page in the first try these days.
[edit] Had to edit this one because a dash was recognized as markup, made into a bullet, and indented the preceding paragraph. Ignorance of the markup law is no excuse. And had to edit again to indicate the edit.
Wait! Somebody had been telling me that they could drag the lower right corner of the text edit box to make it bigger, it seemed like it wasn’t working for me. But I just did it! Yay! I can see a few sentences at once now. Maybe I won’t have to edit my posts again and again now that I can see decent sized chunks at one time.