Two images next to each other: on the left a top-down photo of a car crashing against a vertical pole; on the right–a 3D rendering showing the new design.

Kinetic Cockpit Design May Reduce Injuries in a Side Pole Impact

Aren Khachatryan
5 min readJun 8, 2022

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A little over two years ago I published an idea for a kinetic, rotational cockpit design that strived to decrease the stress forces of a collision by converting the translational kinetic energy into rotational KE — read here.

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Aren Khachatryan

I am a designer with scientific/engineering background. Originally from Yerevan, Armenia, but have lived all my adult life in Seattle, WA :)