"Cars today consistentely pass all safety crash tests...

"BugEyedBimmer - back in the Saddle Dakota Leather" (bugeyedacura) 01/23/2014 at 16:42 • Filed to: None

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... so we made up more! Now certain cars are unsafe because someone made up this test after the car was 4 years into their production cycle!"

http://www.autoblog.com/2014/01/23/hon…

Brian Silvestro > BugEyedBimmer - back in the Saddle Dakota Leather 01/23/2014 at 16:47

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This is the safety dudes:

"Hey, these small, dangerous looking cars are somehow acing our regular crash tests. This can't be possible. Let's make some new crash tests that highlight all of their slight weaknesses!"

Klaus Schmoll > BugEyedBimmer - back in the Saddle Dakota Leather 01/23/2014 at 16:55

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Sorry, but this "almost no touchy offset crash" is bullcrap. They had to invent something new to keep being important. Almost all new cars score 5 stars these days, so they had to do something to keep it interesting. Much like F1, where they have to change the rules every now and then to spice things up. Apart from some occasional Chinese crap, they didn't have pics of totally destroyed cars for a while. So they invented a scenario that won't happen in the real world. In a real crash with this little touch, both vehicles would rotate out of each others' way. They would spin and end up somewhere. A thing that is impossible if you fix them on rails.

I_AmDeath > Klaus Schmoll 01/23/2014 at 17:08

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How often do people actually get 2inches of their car hit by a cement wall as well?

Klaus Schmoll > BugEyedBimmer - back in the Saddle Dakota Leather 01/23/2014 at 17:13

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You know what is really dangerous? Car doors! Why doesn't anybody investigate this? Can somebody please think of the children?