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That seems like such a shit way of doing the pole test and introduces too much randomness to be uniform across all cars. The much better way is to keep the car
by sjtrny 13y ago
That seems like such a shit way of doing the pole test and introduces too much randomness to be uniform across all cars. The much better way is to keep the car stationary on a moving platform like ANCAP does http://www.ancap.com.au/crashtesting http://www.ancap.com.au/crashtesting
- kbar13 13y agois randomness not good? you aren't going to be driving around on a rail irl
- nitrogen 13y agoNot when you're trying to make an objective comparison with a small number of trials.
- simonh 13y agoIf the test was always exactly the same, designers could optimize the car design for that precise impact force at that precise point.
- nitrogen 13y agoThe ability to compare different cars is probably more important than preventing designers from sticking a five foot thick plate of metal on the precise diagonal of the crash test, which would be obvious. A major part of crash testing has to be the forces felt by the test dummy, so there's not a whole lot designers could do to reduce those forces in exactly one direction without also reducing them in other directions.