Re: Darwin Robbed Again
@Lee D
A few years ago the motoring programme that used to be on Channel 5 (5th Gear?) did a little test where they towed a smart cart up to 70mph (might even have been more) and let it crash head on into one of those huge concrete "temporary" motorway barriers you see during roadworks.
Amazingly there was very little deformation of the car itself and even less of the safety cage. They could actually open the doors.
My immediate thought - actually later articulated by the presenter - was that as impressive as that was, the simple fact was that you wouldn't walk away from such an impact.
I think it was last year that NCAP celebrated 25 years of being around with some stats on how much more likely you are to walk away unhurt from a collision at various speeds than you were back then and it's staggeringly better.
They also had some videos of then and now vehicles - the vehicles back then just folded, effectively.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
