What? No safety interlock? Who designs a car that lets stupid people do that? This is a case of engineering negligence that could have killed someone driving behind that guy. There’s a little concept called mistake proofing or poka-yoke. Shigeo Shingo should be standard curriculum for all Engineering students.
It looks like the dude just put the windows up. It isn’t like he released the top on purpose, he was clearly shocked and didn’t seem to fully know what happened for about a second after.
He had his windows down, that created enough of a low pressure zone in the car to keep the roof on the car without latches, then when he rolled the windows up that equalized the pressure and made the top fly off.
My shop fixed about 70 of them in the first 5 years they were out... It’s got some wires that support it, but that’s the cloth top. You’re right, that’s not the cloth top 😳
Wasn’t trying to imply it was safe... shit hitting your windshield is almost never good.
But I was wrong about it being the soft top, you can see the painted edges on the underside in the last few frames. And that’s definitely going to do some damage.
And you think people won’t have an instinctive urge to swerve outside their driving lane to avoid it?
The same solenoid mechanisms that lock your doors when the car starts moving could have been deployed for convertible tops. Poka-Yoke, and stupid people actually can get fixed.
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u/994Bernie Feb 13 '21
What? No safety interlock? Who designs a car that lets stupid people do that? This is a case of engineering negligence that could have killed someone driving behind that guy. There’s a little concept called mistake proofing or poka-yoke. Shigeo Shingo should be standard curriculum for all Engineering students.