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Originally Posted by TButtrick
No sh!t... really?  It's a conspiracy to make us all think that newer cars are safer than older cars!! |
I do not question that new cars are much safer in a crash. That is indisputable. However part of what makes new cars safer is that they design the crumple zones to absorb energy and decelerate the car while they design the passenger compartment to hold its shape. The criticism of the old cars is that they were too stiff. Many people died in cars that were easily fixable back then. They tended to bounce off of a tree resulting in huge G forces to the passenger, where a new car will crunch up and absorb energy to slow the car over a longer period of time.
The crash was designed to show the 59 at the worst and not necessarily a fair test. It would not have made a good picture, if they showed the 59 with lesser sheet metal damage and then tried to prove that the dummy inside didn't survive because of impact into a metal dash at twice the G's of the new car, even though that would have likely been the outcome of a full frontal crash.