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Old 02-16-2010, 12:23 PM   #25
2001ragtop

 
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Fail safe Track modification

You could conceivably have huge flexible nets along both sides of the track. like those used to hold back airplanes that cruise off runways. Or sporadic placements of impact cushions/something inflatable. automatic deployment of parachute by limit switch activated if rider separates from luge. remove all head-on collision barriers.

Or make most the track in the form of a tube. They could greatly increase safety, but as someone else said, then it won't seem like such a feat, and perhaps find ways to make the track even faster.
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