links?

all I could find is that it's tied to the FIA more than the actual auto industry

Maybe he's applauding "conservatives."

Good ol' Corky, still trolling POE with his right-wing "libertarian" apologetics after all these years.

Hi Ryo-Cokey! Haven't seen your name for about as long as I haven't seen a Datsun!

From the video:

"Global NCAP crash tested the Datsun Go, a new, cheap small car aimed at Indian families. The zero-star result highlights the need for India to introduce minimum crash safety regulations."

So it's a floor wax and a dessert topping.

Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm

The people you really want to get to ride in the BFV are those who gave the engineers their requirements.

Good point.

Like 50 gallons each.

would be nice if test dummies were more dramatic and less durably reusable.

a bump on the head looks exactly like a caved-in skull with them.

Amen to all of the above. More realistic crash test dummies would be fairly easy to do, given recent advances in training dummies used by first responders. Seeing the simulated carnage, caved-in skulls with ersatz brain matter and all, would give folks a jolt, and hopefully make them think more about safety concerns.

Get the Cold Steel guys on this.

as much as I'd want them, realistic dummies would be abhorrently expensive and hard to make.

making something look like it went through a crash is easy,

making it look normal but react exactly the way a human body does in a crash is daunting to even consider.

Just go back to using dead bodies like they used to.

Datsun needs to get in good with the folks over at Dapper Cadaver: www.dapper cadaver.com

Just fill them with meat. Ground beef sculpted into a driver, or just stack a bunch of road kill in there.

A great way to do it and actually still have it stay scientific (rather than the movie/graphic industry standard of "eh, looks about right") would be to cover the dummies in QR codes or somesuch and use the actual telemetry to superimpose representative injuries onto the video.


The specific area that looks much less dramatic than the data implies are the indestructible legs in the collapsing footwells with brake pedals ramming your feet. Seeing the snapped ankles and mangled toes would be much more informative than "high chance of footwell intrusion"

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