Re: Audi 100 Gives up the Ghost for Owner

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

In message <199907210447.VAA17712@gonzo.wolfenet.com> Orin Eman writes:

> Oh dear, I sense another physics argument.  Those government crash tests
> where they crash cars into a concrete barrier claim to be equivalent
> to hitting an oncoming car at identical speed.  They are correct - if
> the oncoming car is identical - same weight, same speed, then
> the effect is the same as crashing into a solid barrier.

> However, if the oncoming car has more momentum than you do,
> (mass * velocity) then you are worse off than hitting a solid barrier.

They _were_ perhaps equivalent for full-frontal collisions.  They are
no longer so for half-frontal, since they don't react to the torque
in such an accident in anything like the same way.

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 Phil Payne
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