# What could possibly go wrong with this new roller coaster design? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 19, 2024, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-could-possibly-go-wrong-with-this-new-roller-coaster-design/1007476 "2024-09-19T16:24:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mixdenny](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mixdenny/32/2962_2.png) [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2024, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-could-possibly-go-wrong-with-this-new-roller-coaster-design/1007476/1 "2024-09-19T16:24:30Z")
Cedar Point’s new roller coaster does something that scares the crap out of me. But hey, I’m no coaster guy. The highest section of track maybe 30 long just ends. ENDS! No bumper or anything, the car just stops there with nowhere to go. Then the short section of track disconnects from the track leading to it, slowly pivots until it is pointing straight down, then after a delay releases the car onto another section of track. No. Just no. What could possibly go wrong. > **[Siren's Curse: Cedar Point's newest record-breaking tilt rollercoaster opens...](https://www.news5cleveland.com/news/local-news/sirens-curse-cedar-points-newest-record-breaking-tilt-rollercoaster-opens-in-2025)** > > In early summer 2025, roller coaster fans can brave Cedar Point's newest addition—a record-breaking tilt roller coaster called Siren's Curse. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2024, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-could-possibly-go-wrong-with-this-new-roller-coaster-design/1007476/2 "2024-09-19T16:28:35Z")
A strong wind gust at precisely the wrong moment? 😱 ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2024, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-could-possibly-go-wrong-with-this-new-roller-coaster-design/1007476/3 "2024-09-19T16:31:19Z")
“After experiencing Siren’s Call, you’ll never want to go on another coaster!” ---
**Author:** ![Jasmine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jasmine/32/2964_2.png) [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2024, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-could-possibly-go-wrong-with-this-new-roller-coaster-design/1007476/4 "2024-09-19T16:35:09Z")
As George Armstrong Custer one confidently boasted, “I foresee no problems!” ---
**Author:** ![Nars\_Glinley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nars_glinley/32/8177_2.png) [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2024, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-could-possibly-go-wrong-with-this-new-roller-coaster-design/1007476/5 "2024-09-19T16:41:21Z")
Built by the lowest bidder. ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2024, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-could-possibly-go-wrong-with-this-new-roller-coaster-design/1007476/6 "2024-09-19T17:10:19Z")
Well, i suppose the worst that could happen is that lots of people get killed. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanubv.2/32/3260_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUBv.2)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2024, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-could-possibly-go-wrong-with-this-new-roller-coaster-design/1007476/7 "2024-09-19T17:42:06Z")
I love coasters but that’s the kind I go on to prove something, as opposed to it being fun. ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2024, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-could-possibly-go-wrong-with-this-new-roller-coaster-design/1007476/8 "2024-09-19T20:34:21Z")
That’s a big fat nope for me. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2024, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-could-possibly-go-wrong-with-this-new-roller-coaster-design/1007476/9 "2024-09-19T20:44:41Z")
It must be technically possible for the train to run off the end of the track, because it needs to do that to resume the ride after the track section tilts so that the previously-free end joins up with the vertical section below. Of course there will be some sort of safety interlocks to prevent that happening, and one would hope they are designed to fail-safe rather than fail into a non-operational state and hopefully they will have multiple redundant safety systems that are sufficiently independent that they cannot fail in cascade, as well as some way of detecting failure before it becomes critical. ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2024, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-could-possibly-go-wrong-with-this-new-roller-coaster-design/1007476/10 "2024-09-19T22:52:40Z")
No thank you. Makes me think of the opening to House on Haunted Hill. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/Zwr9OvE_Drg/hqdefault.jpg "House on Haunted Hill - Roller Coaster Accident Scene (1080p)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zwr9OvE_Drg) ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2024, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-could-possibly-go-wrong-with-this-new-roller-coaster-design/1007476/11 "2024-09-19T23:12:10Z")
My Genteel Beloved just saw the video for the Cedar Point coaster, jumped back and said “Fuck no!!”. Wise woman, My Genteel Beloved. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2024, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-could-possibly-go-wrong-with-this-new-roller-coaster-design/1007476/12 "2024-09-19T23:17:55Z")
I predict lots of folks covered in vomit. And piss. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2024, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-could-possibly-go-wrong-with-this-new-roller-coaster-design/1007476/13 "2024-09-19T23:23:00Z")
From what it looks like it doesn’t run off the track, it just runs to the end of the track near the top of the run when it’s slowed down, at that point they presumably have some interlocks in place to stop the cars and hold them in place, then the section of track with the cars on it rotates 90 degrees from horizontal to vertical, connects with other tracks, presumably with additional safety locks to make sure the connection is secure and then sends the cars down. Not seeing that it’s all that much less safe than a loop de loop. ---
**Author:** ![Balthisar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/balthisar/32/2825_2.png) [@Balthisar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balthisar)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2024, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-could-possibly-go-wrong-with-this-new-roller-coaster-design/1007476/14 "2024-09-19T23:24:35Z")
Looks fun, and we have annual passes for next year. Whoohoo! ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2024, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-could-possibly-go-wrong-with-this-new-roller-coaster-design/1007476/15 "2024-09-19T23:27:35Z")
Would you mind letting your next of kin tell us how it went? ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2024, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-could-possibly-go-wrong-with-this-new-roller-coaster-design/1007476/16 "2024-09-19T23:29:49Z")
Don’t judge me but I cried and peed myself watching that clip. On the other hand, when the doctor says I have 3 months to live I know where I’m going. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2024, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-could-possibly-go-wrong-with-this-new-roller-coaster-design/1007476/17 "2024-09-19T23:34:19Z")
The beginning of that ride is exactly like Space Mountain. ---
**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2024, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-could-possibly-go-wrong-with-this-new-roller-coaster-design/1007476/18 "2024-09-19T23:39:23Z")
I don’t like roller coasters at all. I get motion sick very easily and even if I didn’t, they are unpleasant to me at best. But for people who like them, I don’t see what’s so bad about this one. Isn’t the whole point to have a frightening experience? Surely you don’t think that the designers didn’t take precautions to ensure that the cars can’t actually run off the end of the track, even though it looks like they could. ---
**Author:** ![pirviii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pirviii/32/3233_2.png) [@pirviii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pirviii)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2024, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-could-possibly-go-wrong-with-this-new-roller-coaster-design/1007476/19 "2024-09-20T03:45:21Z")
Terrible movie, but great opening. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2024, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-could-possibly-go-wrong-with-this-new-roller-coaster-design/1007476/20 "2024-09-20T04:00:26Z")
Yeah, I have to say, that looks fucking AWESOME! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-could-possibly-go-wrong-with-this-new-roller-coaster-design/1007476.md?page=2)