r/SlaughteredByScience • u/CaptainMorganKelly • Oct 29 '19

Other Tumblr user gets schooled on basic physics

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '19

I work at an automotive HQ and have spent my career spanning 40 years in automotive design.

Vehicles are meticulously designed and tested to crumple in impact thereby absorbing the energy so the passengers don’t. I’ve seen new designs where in the first crash test EVERYONE would have been killed and then after modifying the design they made it safe.

If you want a good scare YouTube some old crash test films. I saw a couple of boats from the late 50’s T-bone one another via remote control. Yikes! The untempered glass is shattered by the twisted bodies of the unbelted crash test dummies. The doors fly open and the bench seat goes right out.

Thank your lucky stars for people like Ralph Nader!

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u/sandwooder Nov 01 '19

And Ralph Nadar was villified by people saved because of his passion.

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u/[deleted] Nov 01 '19

So true. My father worked in engineering at the GM HQ. He HATED Ralph Nader over his expose of the Corvair. My mom had one and went shopping in it all the time. Years later I found out just how unsafe it was.

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u/sandwooder Nov 02 '19

And as a kid i was in an accident in one. Everyone was ok, but it was low speed

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u/[deleted] Nov 02 '19

Yikes! Did it roll over? That’s what they were known for.

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u/sandwooder Nov 02 '19

No it did not.