Cable Median Barrier

[wadea912]

I saw one of these in action this weekend on the highway. I wish I had one of these when I went off the highway, the concrete one I hit caused my car to flip.

[Brmobrad]

its a chevy itl drive away lol

[BrunostNOR]

ok, try to imagine this with an older convertible... like 1990 mazda mx5... that would be horrific!!

[greegarrett1]

@BrunostNOR yea, but not as bad as if the car went into oncoming traffic and killed 5 familes.

[JAKE2DOGG]

Wow

[pancakewafflebacon]

I'm just glad I don't drive a convertible

[stopscrewingaround11]

must be strong cables if they strangled that truck like it was nothing.

[abadarian]

what if the cable snaps and wraps around the drivers head..

[barrierguru]

@abadarian The cables basically never snap. Even if they did, the tension built up in the process of snapping the cable would zip the cable towards the ends of the run, away from the vehicle.

[TheBamaboy010]

motorcycles shouldnt be considered an issue because if it was a concrete barrier the rider would still be dead

[ethen24]

Just plant a bunch of trees, they stop cars real quick!

*joke*

[prayformarshall]

haha

[ethen24]

But what if you're on a motorcycle or any other two-wheeled vehicle? The barriers aren't so safe anymore are they?

[MotAdvNSW]

You ride a motorcycle you simply take much more risk than otherwise, its a fact of life.

If you do 100Mph/160Km/h and slide off your bike, and hit most any barrier, you could easily die.

If a cage (car) changes lane into your path abruptly, so here you could die.

The majority of registered vehicles in Western countries are cars, bikes typically around 2-3%. The median barrier for freeway/motorway application is a "must have"; be it wire-rope, jersey or the W-Beam variety.

[mgospeed31]

We have those where I live. It's kinda funny to see someone's fender wrapped up in that wire, but it saves lives, and then some.

[photographermatt]

It works pretty good ! And resetting or repair of the post would be cheaper. Cool

[One3teen]

Same goes for the truck, some barriers can total a vehicle.

[ChevRcr454]

looks to me like it's less force on the driver. but the cement barriers on another video stopped the truck dead in it's tracks and kept it form going past the barrier.

[123carrie]

A truck driving at a 45 degree angle directly into a cable barrier.

lol!

[barrierguru]

@123carrie Those tests are done at 25 degrees. Whoever said it was 45 degrees was fooled by the foreshortening that makes the angle look steeper. The 25 degrees is meant to model the upper extreme of impact angles that can be expected at speed.

[Weequay2]

You guys are idiots, look up the numbers- the cables work very well.

[Kraakmo]

Its a cheap solution, a double median would work 10 fold better

[bigsexyben1234]

I live in Washington State and there has already been 2 or possibly 3 incidences of cars breaking through those same cable barriers and driving head on into several vehicles. And all of these incidences happened on the same 5 mile stretch of interstate. I am not totally convinced that cable barriers actually work.

[tonysofla]

The Cable will cut peoples head off.

I guess it's good for a center median, as it would

be better that one driver loose it's head instead

of a 2 car frontal collision.

[Rawr454]

Mmm, can't believe you're the only one to bring that up so far.

[barrierguru]

@tonysofla Cable will not get into a car's passenger compartment. The cables are weakly connected to the posts, making the cables very flexible. If a car starts to go under a cable and the cable doesn't manage to snag the vehicle, the cable simply passes up over the roof. The very few examples of decapitiaion, typically bikers and folks in convertibles, happen when the person leaves their vehicle and their neck finds a flange of one of those stout posts.