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Originally Posted by niky
Also doesn't help whenever an agency decides: Hey, let's crash an Accord into a Fit to show people that, when subject to the same crash forces, a Fit is less safe.
Of course, you don't need to be a rocket scientist to see what's wrong with that one... you're showing a 90 pound weakling can't take a punch from a heavyweight boxer, whereas a heavyweight boxer can take a punch from a 90 pound weakling. Completely absent is the part where they ram both against an elephant... errh... eighteen wheeler... because... like... nobody wants to learn that their big car offers nearly as little protection from an eighteen wheeler as a five star small car, right? Not like we don't know that already from actual, scientific crash tests...
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These are real world results though, how often is someone going to wreck their car at 45mph at an exact location on the vehicle with no outside variables being involved and into a fixed object.
Obviously a lot of "tests" are really marketing schemes, but either way these are the accidents that are happening every day. Some asshole running a red light and creaming a minivan with a family of 4 inside.