Fwd: Audi A8 Achieves Highest Possible Safety Test Rating

[four.rings@MCIONE.com]

An excerpt from the newswire post:

> 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.

No, it will be equivalent to a head-on collision between two identical vehicles,
each moving at 17.5 mph.

If they were moving at the speed of light (~300,000 km/sec), then the above
statement would've held true according to the General Relativity Threory, worded
out in Princeton by a nutty scientist with a heavy German accent a long while
ago.

Oh well, journalists are seldom pysicists...
 
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