technical cunning person

September 26, 2008

I knew it was too good to be true…

Filed under: Car Stuff

So I came across this website for a company in Kansas called Fannin Fabrication that makes rollover simulators - they take the cabs of old S-10 pickups, bolt them to a rotisserie mounted on a trailer, and power it all with a hydraulic drive system to spin it around. The idea is for public safety agencies to use them to demonstrate the importance of seatbelts. I got all excited until I read the part about the company not providing the crash test dummies to be used in the demonstration - here, I thought they were actually putting volunteers in there and twirling them around like a hillbilly carnival ride. Oh well…

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