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

["Buchholz, Steven" <Steven.Buchholz@kla-tencor.com>]

> 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.
> 
... could be that they assume that in a head-on crash both vehicles will be
deforming ... when you hit a brick wall it pretty much stays where it is.
In any case, it is probably the NHTSA or IIFHS that makes the claim about
equivalence ...

Steve Buchholz
San Jose, CA (USA)

... never quite understood the "team door handle" moniker in the first place
... team trunk lock perhaps ... :)