Introduction
Vehicles are all around us, the vast majority of people get in one every day, be it on the way to school or work. We depend on vehicles to transport us to where we need to be as well as to keep us safe, because humans were not designed to be travelling as fast as vehicles do, the maximum speed recorded by a sprinter is 44.72 km/h by Usain Bolt and of course most people could not ever reach a speed anywhere close to that. So it is understandable that there are risks associated with driving well over that speed. So to combat that vehicles are equipped with many safety features including airbags, seatbelts, safety glass, anti-locking braking systems and of course, Crumple zones. The crumple zone in a car is built in such a way that it will help reduce the potential harm of a collision to the vehicle's passengers. Paragraph 1 Older vehicles are known to have a very rigid body that stands up well to impact, but in the case of a collision a
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Since Barenyi knew that force was equal to mass multiplied by acceleration he figured out a way to diminish the force. Since you can’t change the mass of a vehicle mid collision you have to change the acceleration, in order to do this you need to increase the time in a collision. That is where a crumple zone comes into play, because the vehicle crumples instead of maintaining its initial shape the collision will take longer minimizing the force exerted onto the passengers. Often vehicle frames are designed to fold in on themselves and the materials surrounding the engine are built to absorb the impact before it reaches the solid engine which won’t