Sad life if your looking at a picture of Orla and what you are noticing is her headgear.
Well f1 and indy head is in the open. Now racing drivers wear helmets as the head moves around erratically at those speeds and more likely to be puncture by debris at that speed.
So you're saying that taking part in top competitive events is completely different to everyday usage, gotcha.
What about World Rally Championships?
Or another way; is there a single form of Motorsport where the driver does not need a helmet?
Are rally drivers not racing drivers, they race yeah? Stray debris is a big thing for rally drivers
Why do you think they do neck strengthening exercises and the rest of us don't. I don't see tires flying around on the road or carbon fibre.
I think you've just proven Andrew's point for him. Whilst helmets are beneficial in a professional/racing capacity, they can be overkill for normal daily use.
You're initial post (quoted above) seemed to be suggesting that the reason for helmets in motorsports was because the head was out in the open. Rally car drivers heads are not in the open
Rally cars also have roll cages, and 5 point harness systems. Should all car drivers also have these installed in their cars?
This helmet probably saved my life earlier this year. I was impressed by the spherical technology as the outer layer socket snapped off cleanly saving my noggin.
To be fair, stray debris because an issue for a collision of a family car at say 100km/hour too.
They should along with wearing helmets, it would save lives.
"If it saves even one life". unless it discommodes people in cars.
ouch; much or any damage to yourself?
fractured ribs, punctured lung, could have been much worse (this was earlier this year) - here is the helmet
racing crash?
Just seen an ad for the new ford transit. Not sure if I should post here, near misses or Hi Vis. Literally a laptop/iPad holder on the steering wheel.
I know they will argue that it's not for while driving but f*CK me. Put it on the passenger side of you want to convince people it's for a mobile office.
The things you see from the top deck of a bus in commuter traffic...
I have seen people at >120kmph on the M11 watching international rugby matches while driving, the typical breakfast bowl while trying to shift gears, one self serve hand shandy, kids dancing on seats on the M50, to name a small subset of things I imagine would cause you to fail your driving test. I feel confident in saying that at this point, I am not convinced anything would surprise me.
Is "self serve hand shandy" a euphemism for something? 😮
You mean something like this...
Yes, involves a different helmet than the ones normally talked about in this thread.
I note that a recent pic of Eamon Ryan in Sallins is drawing the ire of the pearl clutching Irish Times readers...
A chara, – On January 5th, 2021, your publication featured a compelling article, “Cycling the single biggest activity for referrals to brain unit”, on the Neurological Centre at Beaumont Hospital, underscoring the elevated risks – serious injuries, long-term damage, and potential fatality – associated with cycling without a helmet. The article told us that of the 26 cyclists referred to the unit in the previous 30 months, only two wore helmets and they sustained only minor injuries, while 67 per cent of those not wearing helmets suffered intercranial haemorrhage.
Fast-forward to January 11th, 2024, and your pages highlighted Minister for Transport Eamon Ryan inaugurating a new cycleway in Aylmer Bridge, Co Kildare, conspicuously without his helmet (“New cycle routes to cover 3,500km across State by 2040 at a cost of €1.4bn”, News, January 11th). Despite the safety enhancements of segregated cycleways, it is crucial for the cycling poster boy Minister to model safe cycling practices, by safeguarding his noggin. – Yours, etc,
NICOLA KEARNEY,
Sandymount,
Dublin 4.
Sir, – Could the Government please pay for a bicycle helmet for Eamon Ryan?
He could get one just like the two students in the photograph announcing new cycle routes.
Well done to the students for setting a good example. – Yours, etc,
PETER WALSH,
Ballycasey,
Shannon,
Co Clare.
The comments on online platforms are a cesspit. From the "where are their hi-viz" to the racists complaining about "token diversity".
I was passed by an AA breakdown van yesterday. It seemed that the driver has some kind of very large workstation, bigger than just a standard tablet or laptop screen, mounted to the left of the steering wheel, with screen lit while driving. I didn't get close enough to see what was on screen, but it seemed bizarre to have something like this running while driving.
I've had words with a couple of KN Circet drivers who had tablets at the while wheel driving, one for satnav, and one looking at his job documentation.
Alot of mmodern cars have that, just look at any new ecar, there is practically a Tv in the centre of the console
Eamon seems to attract a lot of comment from far right nuts and car ****
Yeah, I've seen that on the Teslas and others, but the AA one was different. It wasn't built into the console, but seemed to be installed as a whole separate workstation, more than just a tablet screen, to the left side of the wheel. Have a look when you see one of the vans in traffic.
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I don't think he mentions it explicitly in the video, but you'd wonder is there increased risk of neck injury with that yoke given the bulk of it when inflated. That said, there does seem to be a sort of neck brace effect which he does mention.
For those who don't have twenty minutes to watch, is there any particular reason behind them closing down?
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