quattro Digest, Vol 59, Issue 35

[Wylie Bean]

Who's discounting crash test data?  I just said that I didn't doubt that it was a very valuable tool in making cars safer.  I, possibly not unlike you, believe that analyzing real world performance in collisions is maybe the more valid interpretation when it comes to design. 



Wylie Bean (via blackberry)
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-----Original Message-----
From: "Taka Mizutani" <t44tqtro at gmail.com>

Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 13:12:06 
To: <theringmeister at triad.rr.com>
Cc: <brett at cloud9.net>; <cobram at juno.com>; <quattro at audifans.com>
Subject: Re: quattro Digest, Vol 59, Issue 35


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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