Re:Head-On Crash Test of 2009 and 1959 Cars (video)
by 83457 on Wednesday September 30, 2009 @07:14PM
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Most of those investigations deal with the fact that many 8 and 5 mile an hour bumpers (meaning they shouldn't break under lower impacts) end up shattering at maybe 2mph and cost thousands of dollars to fix -- implying that the manufactuers are engineering them that way on purpose to sell replacement bumpers or that they are no effectively engineering the bumpers to meet the specifications.
As part of their "investigation" they took a bunch of SUVs and backed them into poles (something they claim was easy to do by accident). They then asserted that the big dents in the bumpers were a sign of shoddy engineering and cheap products. Even being a young middle school whipper snapper I knew bullshit when I saw it.
This sort of thing saves your life.