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That's on purpose. Used to be they only tested straight-on crashes. Of course this ment that car manufacturers only optimized for that situation. In the real wo
by Doxin 4y ago
That's on purpose. Used to be they only tested straight-on crashes. Of course this ment that car manufacturers only optimized for that situation. In the real world you're rarely aiming squarely for the front of the other car though, so those sorts of crashes were rather a lot more lethal until crash testing started taking them into account.
It's also generally just a harder crash for a car to deal with, so it makes sense to use in a comparison like this.
- TheJoeMan 4y agoUnfortunately they may be over-optimizing... https://danluu.com/car-safety/ https://danluu.com/car-safety/ discusses "gaming" the tests. Maybe protect the driver more at the passenger's expense.
- Doxin 4y agoWhat's that quote about metrics and goals again? Crash testing will need to continually get updated to avoid manufacturers being able to target the tests too much.