Cross-post from climate change thread!
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So in 1959 Mercedes-Benz started to conduct regular crash tests at their site at Sindelfingen.
At first they accelerated the test cars using the kind of winch a glider airfield might have to launch their planes into the air.
Then, in 1962, they built a steam powered rocket motor for that.
When the test car had reached its planned collision speed the rocket was uncoupled and decelerated while the car sped on towards the obstacle.
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(-edited- some was just…felt kinda smug of me. sorry.)
didnt surprised me; headrests are basically just a u-frame with some padding (often styrofoam with a hole* in the middle for ventilation)
and my guess is that it doesnt need much force to break and leverage a windshield, if the angle is right.
The girls were driving along a sandy track
so, maybe even more on the slow side? and judging by the photos in the article, they just got out of a curve and there it was, no time to really react;
*e/ ohyeah, there it is;
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Electric vehicles earn shocking report card for reliability
Interestingly, hybrid vehicles had 26 percent fewer problems than conventional vehicles, while plug-in hybrids fared worse than EVs, notching up 146 percent more issues.
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621 miles? Seems oddly specific
621 miles (1,000 kilometers) of range.
Ah
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I haven’t seen this on here yet:
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Found by @mspie500 , thanks!
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Did they factor in the risk of self-driving cars?
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Modular seems to be popular:
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Hah! I imagine that’s exciting in the snow
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Fuckers.
Looks like I’m gonna need a small business to purchase a business vehicle, along with business reasons to drive it…all to keep my personal data out of their systems.
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I’m going to buy aftermarket remote starters etc.
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