"It's not my car", Part III

[Rosso]

Here we go again. Before photos are typical, not the same car.

[Rosso]

Originally Posted by Rosso

Here we go again. Before photos are typical, not the same car.

Got these from a circulating email, so I can't vouch for the story, but it is one large pile of previously expensive Italian parts.


Daughter borrows Dad's new car to try out...... and hits Power Pole at 200 MPH. Car had 9 miles on the odo. 1 mile by daughter.

[cdh]

I believe those pics are of the Enzo crash on Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu a year ago

video clip

[Rosso]

I think you're right.

[AZRCD]

I love how the headlines talk about the car "snapped in two" like thats something amazing. The car is designed to do that, Just look at what great shape the important bit is in.

[Slowhands]

Originally Posted by Rosso

Got these from a circulating email, so I can't vouch for the story, but it is one large pile of previously expensive Italian parts.

Daughter borrows Dad's new car to try out...... and hits Power Pole at 200 MPH. Car had 9 miles on the odo. 1 mile by daughter.

think maybe the story probably came from some "captions please" thread?


*sigh*

another case of ADGI.... I wonder how many of the 398 remaining (or is it less already?) Enzos will succumb to this insidious though sadly not invisible plague...

[Rosso]

Originally Posted by AZRCD

I love how the headlines talk about the car "snapped in two" like thats something amazing. The car is designed to do that, Just look at what great shape the important bit is in.

I believe you are on to something here. Could this be due to some previously unadvertised Ferrari safety innovation, "Emergency Drivetrain Ejection"? Didn't a guy do something similar to a retired Ferrari F-1 car at the Monterey Historics a couple of years ago?

[Slowhands]

Originally Posted by Rosso

I believe you are on to something here. Could this be due to some previously unadvertised Ferrari safety innovation, "Emergency Drivetrain Ejection"? Didn't a guy do something similar to a retired Ferrari F-1 car at the Monterey Historics a couple of years ago?

Yeah, I came across that a few years ago on this underground automotive blog. But they say only part of the system ended up getting installed. Ferrari engineers were actually working on a 2-part system: the other part was a complex array of sensors that would, within a few hours of driving by the new owner, determine his "Driving IQ" or "DIQ" from the collected data and store this as a baseline. Then, in the event that catastrophic damage to the prized creation was imminent, in the milliseconds before impact it would rapidly compute the boneheadedness of the act (the "HEAD": Human Evolutionary Adequacy Denominator, also known as Have you Ever Actually learned to Drive) and then instantly decide in which direction to eject said drivetrain. However, as far as anyone knows, this part of the DIQ-HEAD project was shelved as the necessary algorithms could never be worked out. The evidence to date seems to bear this out-- in every case I've seen, the drivetrain appears to have been ejected in the wrong direction...

[cdh]

cryin' Harsha....

There is an audio link in the news story which explains energy dissipation in an Enzo.....ay yi yi audio

As to the Leggo Ferrari at the Monterey Hysterics, there is an old thread about it

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[Rosso]

Originally Posted by Slowhands

...Ferrari engineers were actually working on a 2-part system: ..."Driving IQ" or "DIQ" ...the "HEAD": Human Evolutionary Adequacy Denominator, also known as Have you Ever Actually learned to Drive) ... DIQ-HEAD ...

A completely brilliant explanation!!!

[AZRCD]

Don't suppose I can argue with that.