Immense amounts of money, research, effort, time, and science have gone into making cars safer. Your economy car is so safe now that you'll survive an accident with a larger vehicle. But it's also so safe now that the traditional blades, jaws, and saws that fire departments would use to extricate you are no longer strong enough to get through the car's metal.

There are also myriad other features lurking in a car's bodywork that can do more damage than the accident. Rescuers need to make sure they don't cut the pressurized gas canisters that would inflate an airbag, or the battery cables in a hybrid. Once in the car, they need to make sure they don't do something that will make the airbag suddenly go off if it hasn't already. It has meant that rescuers first need to peel back the car's shell to see what's beneath before they begin digging out the passengers.

All this has added time to the rescue effort, which might mean the difference between staying here or checking out the hereafter. It's also ballooned budgets, as crews need to buy the equipment they need to get the job done. Maybe carmakers should start making the tools necessary to break their cars open in an accident. The Jaguar Jaws of Life, anyone?

大量的实验和金钱被用来提高汽车的安全性。现在很多经济型轿车在与大型汽车碰撞时也能保护你的安全。但是同时带来的问题是传统的刀片、电锯等消防队用来解救车里乘客的工具已经无法对抗先进汽车使用的材料了。
不仅如此，车里还有许多的东西是消防员们不希望碰到的。他们必须保证不会切到为气囊充气的压力罐、或者一辆混合动力汽车里的电池导线。当他们在车里的时候必须保证不会让未打开的气囊突然充气。有时候这也就意味着消防员在救助乘客之前要把整个车剥开。
所有这些都会增加救援的时间，意味着乘客能留在这儿或者来世再见了。另外还增加了救援的成本，消防队需要购买更好的设备来救人。也许这些汽车生产商可以开始制造能打开车辆的专用工具，比如“美洲虎尖牙”如何？

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原帖由 lippy 于 2008-3-24 10:35 发表
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