It doesn't matter how robust the vehicle is. When the car crashes into something, it stops, but the people inside continue moving. This is how people get internal organ damage and things like whiplash.
Do you relize how much money it would cost, to make a card out of that and how heavy it would be, it really doesn't matter what its made off to stop car deaths.
what you fail to know that however hard diamonds may be, they are easily crushable and breakable. They are destructable with just a small hammer. In fact, diamonds are worse than let say iron to make cars since it has no elasticity. However, gold is more bendable and may be able to survive crashes more often.
oh yeah i forgot how widely available they are *waters my diamond growing tree* :roll:
BlindBluMonstah
diamonds don't cost that much, they are JUST carbon, unless you want to buy those natural pieces of diamond, but who would when you can get giant pieces for less? It's like buying pc instead of mac
That's some pretty flawed logic. Sure the vehicle would be strong, but the human inside it will still be as vulnerable as ever. Also, the car wouldn't crush and absorb any of the impact, so crashes would be even less survivable. It would cost a ******* fortune too...
can I ask a question... What are people answering this question like this is a genuine suggestion? Seriously guys..? This is obviously not a serious suggestion.
a material such as carbon fiber that crumples or brakes up and absorbs the impact is what saves lives in crashes. just look at some of the crashes that F1 drivers walk away from these days.
can I ask a question... What are people answering this question like this is a genuine suggestion? Seriously guys..? This is obviously not a serious suggestion.mfp16
We feel morally empowered to teach the foolish. Duh 8)
[QUOTE="mfp16"]can I ask a question... What are people answering this question like this is a genuine suggestion? Seriously guys..? This is obviously not a serious suggestion. Yes, I know, it's a dumb question, but I wouldn't put it past OT to seriously ask it.
Because diamonds tend to be found in very small sizes and they are very rare. Not to mention expensive. A car made out of solid diamond would at least cost 30 million dollars.
oh yeah i forgot how widely available they are *waters my diamond growing tree* :roll:
RubiksCubeReven
diamonds don't cost that much, they are JUST carbon, unless you want to buy those natural pieces of diamond, but who would when you can get giant pieces for less? It's like buying pc instead of mac
i wasnt talking about how much they cost i was talking about how available they are.
[QUOTE="Treflis"]Because diamonds tend to be found in very small sizes and they are very rare. Not to mention expensive. A car made out of solid diamond would at least cost 30 million dollars. More like 30 billion dollars dude. There are rings worth over $3 million And how many rings could you fit in a car? 100,000?
A body made of diamond wouldn't crumple. Crumple zones are required so the bodywork can absorb the force of an impact so as not to harm the driver. The force of impact in a diamond car would probably kill you.
And cars would cost millions of dollars and diamonds are exceptionally rare.
Plus diamond is very brittle so a car crash would make it shatter due to all the pressure being transferred to one tiny point and not even diamond can withstand these kinds of forces, so the car would shatter and the people inside would be torn to pieces by the fragments and then have the issue of still traveling along a road now covered in shards of diamond sharper than glass, oh yeah and the fact diamonds are expensive and too small, cars are safe because they are designed to crumble and absorb the impacts that the energy would otherwise be transfered directly to the people in the car saving them, you've probably seen the huge highspeed crashes in Formula 1 where the car just vapourises on impact yet the driver even after 10 flips and rolls can get up and walk away... same idea as normal vehicles.
It doesn't matter how robust the vehicle is. When the car crashes into something, it stops, but the people inside continue moving. This is how people get internal organ damage and things like whiplash.
-Unreal-
This. And besides, diamonds don't come cheap, and imagine the glare a diamond car would give off.
Diamond has properties that would make it a great engineering material, the obvious downside is the enormous cost of the materials, as well as manufacture. For cars, as others have said, the passengers wouldn't fare well in an impact
Due to extensive research done by the University of Pittsburgh, diamond has been confirmed as the hardest metal known to man. The research is as follows. Pocket-protected scientists built a wall of iron and crashed a diamond car into it at 400 miles per hour, and the car was unharmed. They then built a wall out of diamond and crashed a car made of iron moving at 400 miles an hour into the wall, and the wall came out fine. They then crashed a diamond car made of 400 miles per hour into a wall, and there were no survivors. They crashed 400 miles per hour into a diamond traveling at iron car. Western New York was powerless for hours. They rammed a wall of metal into a 400 mile per hour made of diamond, and the resulting explosion shifted the earth's orbit 400 million miles away from the sun, saving the earth from a meteor the size of a small Washington suburb that was hurtling towards mid-western Prussia at 400 billion miles per hour. They shot a diamond made of iron at a car moving at 400 walls per hour, and as a result caused two wayward airplanes to lose track of their bearings, and make a fatal crash with two buildings in downtown New York. They spun 400 miles at diamond into iron per wall. The results were inconclusive. Finally, they placed 400 diamonds per hour in front of a car made of wall traveling at miles per iron, and the result proved without a doubt that diamonds were the hardest metal of all time, if not just the hardest metal known the man.
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