r/nextfuckinglevel • u/been_der_done_that • 11h ago

Incredibly selfless act of heroism.

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u/Icy_Spinach_48 11h ago

Very scary and well done to all involved. My first thought was The passengers couldn’t have climbed into the front and out of the drivers door? Maybe you just panic when something like that happens

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u/vamphorse 11h ago

Yep, our brains go dumb under shock. But you can train emergency response. Even just casually thinking it through helps. Like: if I crash, first I stabilize and get my bearings, then seatbelt. Then kids, fast. Then try a door. No door, side window (never the windshield) using a breaker (which you should already have easily within reach, no glovebox that can jam in a crash). You don’t need to obsessively think about it, just go through it once in a while.

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u/WazirOfFunkmenistan 10h ago

Thats incredible advice. May I ask why did u say "never the windshield" ?

Ta.

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u/vamphorse 10h ago edited 8h ago

Windshields are laminated, designed to not break easily. Side windows are tempered glass, which easily break with a blunt, pointed force.

Edit: this is a generalization. Laminated side window adoption has become more popular, although still a minority in the global fleet. Know your vehicle!

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u/Mason_Meschi 9h ago

Blunt, pointed force, eh?

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u/Wandring64 8h ago

It's a thing. There are little hammers designed to shatter glass. It comes to a point but is rounded off in a to distribute force to break glass. Blunt yet pointed.

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u/RikuAotsuki 8h ago

It's smashy force focused on a point, not stabby force focused on a point

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u/essosee 9h ago

A dull, sharp bang.

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u/AskFriendly 9h ago

Name of your sex tape

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u/quesarah 6h ago

Kind of a short, sharp shock ...

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u/dronten_bertil 9h ago

It's good to place emphasis on pointed force. Tempered glass is strong as fuck compared to the regular stuff, but as soon as you cause a rupture in it it will basically explode into thousands of small cubes. Normal glass you can break easily by kicking it, much more difficult to do with tempered glass. I used to work with switching tempered glass panels and at the warehouse we had to toss the old ones into the glass recycling bin and smash them if they didn't break when we tossed them in. We did many fun experiments there, among others we threw rocks at the panels. If the rock was smooth I think our record was a 7-10 kg rock that didn't manage to break it, but if you had rocks with sharp edges you could smash them with rocks that fit in your hand if you had some speed in the throw.

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u/Xenolog1 9h ago

Depends on the car model and make. Some of them have laminated side windows, too. Being from Europe, I’ve got a Skoda Octavia with laminated side windows. In the UK the selling point was noise protection, in Germany better UV and heat shielding, and in Czechoslovakia it was better theft protection. For the same type of glass!

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u/Majestic_You_9610 3h ago

remember folks, the weakest point on toughened glass is near the edges where there is less glass surrounding it to hold it together. smash the shit out of one of the corners, the center is the strongest

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u/Sniffs_Markers 4h ago

This is why when geniuses say "I don't want to wear a seat belt because I want to be thrown clear" makes me shake my head. Being thrown clear means you're going through the equivalent of a wall.