> Ooh, nice metaphor. Cannnon... Anyway, I completely agree with ya, Howard. Seems like a car would be even more dangerous than a bike. It's a multiple-ton metal tim can which can crush in upon you. Did you know, if you are speeding at 50 miles per hour, a crash at that speed is the same as if you dropped your car off a 50 story building, or some such? Wow.
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I'll take your word for that. I used to tell my students in driver ed that two cars colliding head-on at 50 was like hitting a parked car at a hundred. I don't think any of them tested that theory either.

Most wrecks are not the violent movie-type smash ups. I've been in several wrecks and the only injury I ever got was a pump on my forehead. Hard-head that I am, I demolished the windshield on a '36 Plymouth. Styrofoam had not been invented at that time but IF it had, and IF I had been wearing a styrofoam bicycle helmet, neither the windshield nor my bean would have been damaged.
Howard