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thicc A-pillars and that ugly ass slope up the bottom of the window line from front to the back so you can't see shit are supposedly safety features, yeah.
look I do love a beautiful 60s Triumph or Corvair convertible but if you roll over in one of those everyone inside will be flattened. Need better materials for thin A-pillars that don't kill the occupants. (Right now they kill people outside the car bc visibility)
easy solution: make the tops out of paper and have those convertible headrest hoops on everything
Those headrest hoops are usually cosmetic. If you take a Miata to track you better invest in a roll bar and proper race helmet, head restraint, and harness.
really? they're kinda uggo and ruin the lines so i figured they had to be a safety thing
you need both the A-pillars and (effectively) a roll bar behind the seats in order to protect the passenger area from getting crushed. With weak A pillars I think a rollover will fold the windshield down onto the occupants and possibly crush them into the seats, depending on impact angle
See in the split between protecting someone who manages to roll their car and everybody else you'll find me firmly on the side of everybody else
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYMfy1LYF0U
in addition to bad steering input at highway speeds there's actually a lot of rollovers caused by running into someone else's tire. the car just climbs up it. that's why you occasionally see rollovers in residential areas from low-speed collisions. video is an extreme example of the mechanic
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy: