Re: Fwd: Audi A8 Achieves Highest Possible Safety Test Rating

[Robert Myers <rmyers@inetone.net>]

None whatsoever, Richard, that is, if you are referring to the head-on
vehicle 35 mph crash being equivalent to the 35 mph barrier crash.  The
physics says that is a true statement.  Team Door Handle has nothing to do
with it.

At 06:53 PM 9/15/98 -0400, you wrote:
>Anyone else find a problem with this logic?  Team Door Handle now writing
>press releases?
>
>
>>  In a message dated 9/15/98 4:27:04 PM Eastern Daylight Time, AOL News
>writes:
>
><snip>
>>   To collect this data, vehicles are crashed into a fixed barrier at 35
>miles
>>  per hour with instrumented dummies registering impact forces during the
>crash.
>>  The force is equivalent to a head-on collision between two identical
>vehicles,
>>  each moving at 35 mph.
>
>
>Cheers,
>	Richard
>	88 90Q - <insert pithy witticism here>
>	88 Golf GTi - PRO Rally
>
>
>
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   Bob
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