The French lost and silly helmet guys all got together with sharp sticks and showed them to each other.
I can attest to this. I've seen it twice in two different states a few decades apart. Same result.
Technically, that Bel Air was designed and built by an organization that was backed, ultimately, by a gold standard currency. (Most recently tied to gold from 1934-1971)
Anything that humans design and build will undergo an iterative progression through design responding to incentives.
Some of those incentives are- don't kill customers, users, and occupants.
Others are units produced and sold, profit margin, and market control.
The x-frame in that 59 being even more rigid than average probably didn't help with the massive energy transfer into the body, either.
If you can clear away enough stuff under the hood of most modern, unibody vehicles, you can see the dimpling on the structural frame horns that attach to the front bumper. Those are a good example of crush zones that have proven to absorb energy quite well.
That would require the PRC would be handing off an effective tool.
Many accused the IIHS of using a rusted out hulk with no engine.
The vehicle was purchased in Indiana, was in driving condition, original engine (235ci i6), solid frame and panels.
Vehicle weight is listed as 3603lb.
For comparison- the listed curb weight of the 2009 Malibu is, depending on trim level, 3415lb-3649lb
Mechanics note - this is why we've had to use higher load lifts over the last decades to accommodate vehicles that, while dimensionally smaller, have been increasing in weight.
crash test between a classic car and a modern car
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https://video.nostr.build/da1e04a519b98185f78b390f89491c244fc9be39e36b1fb474f53373cb106a4a.mp4
You mean we understand how to direct and dissipate kinetic energy better than we did in the mid 50's?
It's a good example of how testing and observation produces empirical existence that can result in improvements over time.
Wonder what Mrs. Hodges would think of catching it on camera.
Is this even a thing anymore? We were once a country based on religious tolerance, was considered secular. It languishes. I am a Christian. I don’t need everyone else to be.
https://www.youtube.com/live/RDh2GoaKOEs
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It's not taking over anything. (Save for some on the far right)
Yes it's still a thing, but it's a reaction to the cultural capture of the last few decades and the accelerationism of far left factions in the last 15.
It's also about to be consumed in battling with it's own current allies on the right for control and reduced to (an even more) gibbering mess.
Challenging the carnivores, I see.
And they died in each one of them?
Final testing before global rollout.
Because his job is to keep a small, but necessary set of people inline so boomers don't take all the support with them.
The ones with integrity are around but marginalized.
The smoke filled rooms with with intense journalists hammering away and working to make deadline is a bygone era.
Yeah. News in a traditional sense of dead.
We need more people doing what Alan Sokal did.
That said, confirmation bias is a hard drug to kick.