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Why don't passenger cars have roll cages?
Why won't car manufacturers design and build passenger vehicles with some sort of roll cage and burst resistance fuel cell as standard equipment similar to NASCAR? It didn't take this long to figure out the seat belt and padded dash things. It couldn't have anything to do with cost effectiveness because your safety is their main concern. You know this from their caring car commercials.
6 Answers
- KennyLv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
Car makers care about PROFIT not your safety. If there are not any govt safety reg, we would not even have seat belt.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
A lot of money is spent on the safety bubble in the cars main body, it has enuff strength to withstand the average rollover in a traffic accident @ road speeds, Nascar roll cages are designed for 3x that speed.
The fuel cell problem is partly cost , this is an industry that measures profit and loss by pennies per unit.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Cost plays a major factor.But,the integrity of a vehicles roof is more than adequate,except in the most severe cases,in which case it was probably attributed from excess speed....something no one recommends...especially Nascar speeds.
- dDouble TakeLv 71 decade ago
they add weight and weight = less miles per gallon. and if you manage to get a passenger car to flip your going to need more than a roll cage to protect you.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Vehicles cost to much now and adding these items will only add to more automotive bail outs...........
