Take a look at the potentially mandatory EM Shutoff switch...

sounds great as long as you turn the air bottle on,

 

how about a mandatory red blinking strobe light that goes on top of the mandatory driver shield that lets you know when the air is on?

 

How about a set of golf clubs instead.

 

Yep, that sounds like the smartest thing to do, next thing you know we will have to have the cars remote controlled. Where is this all headed? I am all for safety innovations, but this is getting out of control. Again the racers have to fork out $$$ to provide hopefully safer racing when all the common sense tells us that the tracks need to also look at their part of the bargain. Also, as a racer, when was the last time YOU checked out the braking area at the track you are about to head down? You know what happens when the circus has no animals for the show.....

 

Worms,
I know that everything is expensive. David has this very reasonably priced. His stuff works. ITA has had many threads over several tragedies now. This sport needs to keep the insurance companies at bay too. Let's not lose anyone else.

 

Wile there at it shouldn't they ad a brake activator switch? Most of the time the chute burns off the car so it's useless.

 

Don't be surprised when a new chute material is made mandatory and the cost doubles or triples for a pair . Surely they will be certed and need a yearly inspection with the mfg.'s discretion to repair or destroy them .

 

The auto brake was also one of my suggestions as was the shoot if the manifold pops. Along with air bags and water/foam barriers Its pretty simple here the tracks aint going to get longer, there arent going to be any tracks if the "animals" are all dead. A couple little nets and a bag of sand sure aint going to get it done....

 

What about cars with no burst panels?

Will how can this device be adapted to work on an A/Fuel car to prevent a Shelly Howard scenario? Perhaps a fishing weighted type of tether that would break when the cockpit is impacted? or severe tire vibration?

 

guys, I'm not sure how much this thing costs but it sure looks like a good idea to me. I think we should be doing it, and if not, the guy a few comments up the string was right...better trade the car for golf clubs.

 

I’ve purchased EM equipment for my own car and have no doubt this is quality stuff, but what’s next, an ejection seat? It’s the tracks that need fixing. Maybe this is a good idea for FC, but the logic seems to get weaker and weaker as we move to TF and then TAFC and TAD. As for preventing a repeat of what happened to Shelly Howard, I think mounting the rear wing so that its center of pressure is no further back than the rear axle would go a long way to eliminating blowovers in the first place.

 

Now that's Funny!

 

The monster truck guys have a remotely activated kill switch. It lives through all the shaking and battering they give it. Maybe that would work with somebody in the tower on the switch? Dave Germain

 

the way I read the diagram, the panels have to blow out for it to activate the chutes, therefore you'd still be in the same predicament.

Instead of air cylinders and electronics, why not just do what worsham did, which was put a wire from the body burst panel to the chute levers.

 

i think this burst panel deal is a very good idea for a number of reasons. the only down side i could see would be putting out the burst panels and then having the chutes come out before the finish line and having a guy drive around you that you could have beaten had you just been coasting. However in this case that downside is out weighed by all the positives of this system. Also what if you were able to have one lever that was manually operated by the driver that could pull the chutes, fire bottles and fuel shut off all at the same time in case of a fire or other catostrophic incident?

will,

just wondering if those a fuel cars that blew over had wheelie bars? we've all seen them break, but i wasn't sure if they were used on those runs.