12 example sentences using crumple.
Crumple used in a sentence
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I don't think they believed in crumple zones back then...
Just remember that you've got no crumple zones and your legs are right at the front.
Even 12-18 inches of crumple zone would make a BIG difference.
It's like saying the crumple zone of a car is useless because it crumpled in the accident.
They crash a big Volvo that happens to be a decade old and built when the crumple one was king into a modern Renault hatchback.
Bumping into something at 30mph needs a certain amount of crumple zone to make it survivable.
That was a nice video demonstrating how the hood of modern cars are designed to crumple upon impact to save the driver.
As with a luxury car's crumple zones and air bags and other safety gear, the plants systems designed to contain and mitigate the accident have done their jobs.
For survivability there is absolutely no replacement for deformable structure aka crumple zones.
By prolonging the total crumple/crash time, the peak energy is decreased, thereby avoiding injuries from force overload during deceleration.
Over a century or so we've applied various braking technologies, crumple zones, seat belts air bags, etc... Gambling could be treated the same way and with the advent of big data the benefits may outweigh the harms.
If there's some sort of collision with enough force to crumple the gyro casing, which appears to be buried deep in the vehicle and can be made of very strong material, you have a lot bigger problems than the gyros stopping.
Crumple definitions
fall apart; "the building crumbled after the explosion"; "Negotiations broke down"
fold or collapse; "His knees buckled"
See also: buckle
to gather something into small wrinkles or folds; "She puckered her lips"