New SCCA crush structure test protocol?

[R. Pare]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLhHA...E&feature=grec

Wadda ya think, Dave G?

[Wren]

That made my day. I'm glad to see they didn't waste any time with a helmet.

[dc]

Darwin's natural selection.

[Dick R.]

That made my day. I'm glad to see they didn't waste any time with a helmet.

Or HANS . . . watch the driver's head movement.

Dick

[Stan Clayton]

Nice, Richard...I LOL'd.

/yeah, I know...serious subject.

[Wren]

What kind of crappy engineering students can't just falsify the data that is required in the tech data package for the FSAE competition? They don't require pictures, just data.

[rickb99]

I don't know looked like a successful test to me. Driver was still alive.

Only problems were the ECU flying out of the engine compartment and what appears to be a crack in the upper frame rail where it was previously repaired.

Sounded like the guy on the pace bike was yelling brake, BRAKE! Or, brace, BRACE!

[R. Pare]

Actually, it's Toyota's new corporate-wide protocol for their design engineers - make THEM test everything to failure!

[Dave Gomberg]

Well, there's no need for expensive test dummies this way. (Instrumentation may be a bit lacking.) Seriously, though, what WERE they thinking?

Dave

[Marshall Mauney]

Thinking? Not sure there was anything like that involved.....

[Wren]

Am I the only one close enough to college to remember what the decision making ability of the average 20 year old is?

Hell, I'd probably still give it a shot.

[Rick Iverson]

Darwin's natural selection.

The book was Voyage of the Beagle. Haven't seen anything like that since my youngest son tried shooting peas out his nose. Damn near wet my pants.

Iverson

[mmi16]

Well, there's no need for expensive test dummies this way. (Instrumentation may be a bit lacking.) Seriously, though, what WERE they thinking?

Dave

Thinking? We don't need no thinking! Life is cheap in SE Asia.

[TimW]

What is the problem? It seems to me it was a successful test, no? No need inferring if the dummy would have lived; they have proof the dummy lived.



Tim

[Reddog]

[FONT=Times New Roman]Honorable Grandfather was a Kamikaze [/FONT]

[Christopher Crowe]

Between you guys, your comments and the footage of "The Test," I just can't stop laughing. God almighty -- funny!

Crowe

[mmi16]

What is the problem? It seems to me it was a successful test, no? No need inferring if the dummy would have lived; they have proof the dummy lived.



Tim

While we may have visual proof that the dummy lived.....we don't have any statistical data to run in the computer models; and unless we can run it on a computer model it isn't real.