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

[quk@isham-research.demon.co.uk (Phil Payne)]

In message <199809152259.SAA27341@pop01.globecomm.net> Richard Beels writes:

>> 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.

> Anyone else find a problem with this logic?  Team Door Handle now writing
> press releases?

I seem to remember that Robert Hook wasn't too happy with the idea,
and it took Isaac Newton a fair while to convince him.  No one's
expressed serious doubts since then, though.

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