bullet proof partition between driver’s seat and rear of vehicle. Driver hits lock switch bad guy can’t get out.
Well, if everyone thinks I’m wrong then maybe I need to re-evaluate what the heck my problem was.
My apologies Rick, I think I just had my ‘slightly annoyed in a nebulous sort of way’ filter turned up extra high yesterday.
If only there was a way to lock that off from the outside so it couldn’t get out . . . 
Man, you had to go and say that? Now Rick’s not going to even get the half-point for his Pitting.
No worries, it’s all good.
Silenus 
Well, I did see him eyeing the bottle of Scotch I won at the last Dopefest (thanks again, silenus) so I’ll Pit him for that instead.
Stranger
How’d you win it?
Let’s just say a Smith & Wesson may beat four aces, but a Walther P99 has more firepower.
Stranger
First off, I wanna say that I’m not here to Pit you, okay? I always like reading your stuff, you are very knowledgeable about cars, and always very helpful. I truly wasn’t ranting or complaining, I was just pointing out to Eonwe that the reason I came back with something else was that my question wasn’t answered, as his post made it sound like I completely ignored everything everybody had said up to that point and came back with something irrelevant. Which I didn’t.
Second, sorry, but I’m not seeing what “errors of fact” in my OP you corrected in Post #6.
Third, “Explorer”, “Expedition”, bah, what’s the diff? Seriously, though, they’re both SUVs (both Fords, too, so hey, at least gimme some points for that ), and since we’re talking about high-security SUVs in general, I think the distinction is beside the point, albeit obviously of consuming interest to a Car Geek such as your esteemed self.
Nothing to apologize for.
Okay, so, I’m not getting this, either, along with Chorpler. This only works as a life-saver if the bad guy is in the opposite seat from yourself–if he’s in the back and you’re in the front and your high-security SUV has a bulletproof glass partition. Or if he’s in the front and you’re in the back, ditto. And he doesn’t have one of your Loved Ones in the seat with him.
See, what I’m having trouble with is why this is even offered as a feature, when there seem to be a number of reasons why it’s pointless.
[ul][li] All you can do is trap a bad guy in car–then what?[/li][li] How did he get in the car in the first place, if it has unbreakable windows? The assumption here has to be that you left the car unlocked.[/li][li] If he’s a kidnapper in the car with you, (a) he has to be in the opposite seat and (b) your car has to have a bulletproof partition.[/li][/ul]
All those seem to add up to the fact that the likelihood that you’d ever need to use this feature would be pretty remote. When I started the thread, I thought somebody would come in and say, “Oh, yeah, you wanna have that feature because of …” And there’d be a real illuminating reason and I’d go, hey thanks.
But so far, not. Thus I’m going with “Aftermarket tweak to appeal to the More-Is-Better Safety First boardroom crowd”.
Bulletproof partitions make a woosh sound when you lock them.
Ah, okay, I was thinking of it as the hijacker being in the passenger’s seat up front. I guess in that case you have to try Larry Niven’s technique of speeding up to 100mph and telling him to throw the gun out the window or you’ll obliterate the passenger side of the vehicle against the next concrete pylon you see, “and the driver’s side will have to take its chances.” 
Keep in mind that, although the vehicle this kid’s parents let him die in had “bulletproof” windows, 99.99% of cars with this feature don’t.
Also, if they spent that much money making the windows “bulletproof”, they should have used one way bulletproofing , to make it easier to kick the windows out.
You mugged him? :eek:
umm, can I see a cite that this car had bullet proof windows and not just run of the mill anti-smash windows like what is on numerous Mercedes, Jag, Lexus, Infinity, Volvo and several other makes?
Since the news article referred to the vehicle as a “very high security new model car” and as a “security SUV”, and since this article describes it as a “high-security 4x4 vehicle”, I would assume that it was more along the lines of the armored anti-kidnapping Ford Expedition, rather than simply a standard sedan with anti-smash windows.
There aren’t any other news articles that I can find about it.
And anyway, can’t a determined person kick out anti-smash windows from the inside? It’s just a plastic and glass sandwich, meant to deter thieves, not prevent you from breaking out of your car after a wreck. Since the article says he was “hitting the reinforced windows” to no avail, I’d assume that yeah, it had the bulletproof glass.
Yeah, probably conflating some statements, most notably one made by DDG saying that we were talking about high security SUVs, and your bulletproof partition plan. Moot point.
The unsettled point is… Stranger mugged you? :eek:
What the fuck was this car? That´s what we need to figure out. The French Carribean is not Somolia. Sure, you might have some wallet snatchers, but I don´t think you need an armored vehicle with a pop up twelve seven turret. I susspect that the car in question was just a regular car with the anti-theft deadbots.
And having been to a fair amount of Caribbean islands, ransom kidnappings are going to be rare, as there´s not really a good place to hide. Getting some kind of custom ass kicking truck on to the island is not going to be a small task.
Many car companies refer to anti-smash glass as high security glass or security glass.
You do realize that, if in fact, it was an armored vehicle is would not be a rental, so all the comments in both threads about rentals are rendered moot.
Have any of you ever seen an armored vehicle up close? I have, and I can tell you that as hard as it would be to smash the windows on a car with anti-smash glass, on an armored car it is flat impossible.
A single door off of an armored Volvo weighs somewhere around 500 lbs. The company has to add a third hinge to support the door. The glass is a good 3" thick.
I seriously doubt that it was in fact an armored vehicle.
That´s what I´m saying. It´s hard enough to get a decent pocket knife in the Carib, let alone a truck like is what is being envisioned here.
I agree completely. I started my post before yours was there.