Audi A8 Achieves Highest Possible Safety Test Rating

[Paul Heneghan <paul.heneghan@bbc.co.uk>]

From: four.rings@MCIONE.com

>> 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 you are suggesting that crashing a car into a fixed barrier is the same
as crashing a car into another identical stationary car, I think you should
reconsider.

Paul (experienced in the art of crashing into an immovable object - i.e.
kerb)