Re:How Cheap Can Electric Vehicles Get?
by overcast on Thursday April 28, 2016 @10:46AM
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Have you seen the smart car crashes? Those cages can survive head on 60mph crashes to a brick wall. The issue here is that the soft human inside will not. Larger cars incorporate crumple zones, which absorb a ton of the impact, while small cars with extremely strong frames do not. The passenger absorbs all the energy = death.
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A slight detour, but this always bugged me when Lois was falling to her death and Superman would catch her an inch off the ground.
Well done, Superman, you just broke your girlfriend into three pieces with your arms.
That's just one of many areas where readers/viewers willingly suspend disbelief.
Superman is supposed to be able to do that; that's one of the benefits of being beyond human is (for him). A literal reality distortion field is actually the best explanation for all of the exceptions to physics that happen around him; Lois passing in to that bubble while being saved is just one more thing on the list.