Revo/Hilux Tipover

[madmax2]

On 11/4/2016 at 8:55 AM, cumgranosalum said:

There are plenty of roll-over tests for pickups - and other vehicles - most involve testing the roof strength - is is particularly weak in the basic design of chassis-based constructions.

 

it seems to have evaded most people that this isn't actually a test about mosses, it is to do with the vehicles manoeuvrability in relation to CoG. Pickups  - especially the "hi-rise" versions have a higher than normal GoG. They certainly don't want tires to loose adhesion too quickly as that opens a whole new Pandora's box. 

As the Swedish Vision Zero document points out - most incidents are down to minor human error and to think that "paying attention" is all you need is just ignoring the dsalient points of the problem

 

In countries like Thailand swerving is often the result of dogs, elephants buffaloes etc as well as man-instigated events, in Sweden again they have long stretches of uninhabited country, in the more populated areas the hazards are again like Thailand either made made or down to wildlife and agriculture.

in countries like US and Oz the single vehicle accident is a well-documented - long lonesome roads the driver looses  control or does off and leaves the road - on waking they make an instinctive grab at the wheel and the vehicle rolls...the drivers are sometimes found days/weeks later.

Anything that can be done to make sure the CoG is as low as practical ca save lives.

Having spent 2 years touring around Australia by road i can assure you that the main cause of single vehicle accidents on country roads are emu's in the day time and kangaroo;s at dusk