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The Importance of Neck Braces on Roller Coasters
In modern roller coasters, you're not in a cart. You're actually in an open air type cockpit with just a harness over top. When the thing makes the turn, your gondola swings out. Swings out to bank that turn. Computers know how to combine that so you don't even know you're turning. So no longer do you lean into one way or another when the plane is banking.
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