quattro Digest, Vol 59, Issue 35

[Taka Mizutani]

The only way that manufacturers can design safer cars is to take the data
from real-world crashes and apply them to the new designs and validate the
changes through testing. Since testing is done with dummies in a controlled
situation, I don't see why crash test data is not relevant.

Real-world crash data is valuable, of course, but discounting crash-test
data is absurd.

Taka


On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 12:14 PM, Wylie Bean <theringmeister at triad.rr.com>wrote:

> Ha! lol.
> I think we all know what the scientific method is Brett, and I don't doubt
> that crash testing is very valuable in making cars safer. My point is that
> the way a car performs in an uncontrolled situation (collision) is I think a
> more realistic interpretation of the data than using sleds and dummies.
>
>
> ------Original Message------
> From: Brett Dikeman
> To: W. Bean
> Cc: quattro at audifans.com
> Cc: brett at cloud9.net
> Cc: cobram at juno.com
> ReplyTo: brett at cloud9.net
> Sent: Sep 30, 2008 12:04 PM
> Subject: Re: quattro Digest, Vol 59, Issue 35
>
>
> > I'll take the real-world results over a crash test any day.  I don't know
> > about you but I don't live in a controlled environment.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_method
>
> This has become absurd; I'm checking out of this thread.
>
> ~B
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