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20-08-2014, 07:25 PM
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More metal = more safe. I vaguely remember a demonstration of crumple zones using a egg placed in a wooden block. One block was nothing but wood, the other had a end made out of cardboard. The block's were dragged into a brick... The egg in the plain wooden block couldn't be helped by all the kings horses and men... The egg in the cardboard fronted block happily rolled away without harm. The amount of different steels that form cars these days amazing, 1.0 mild steel is out-dated...now steels as thin as .6 - .8 feature blends of boron and the like to give much stronger yet lighter materials, and a secondary advantage of being able to use less of it in the construction of a car... Look at just about every radiator support panel in todays cars, its a composite of fiberglass reinforced plastic and metal... Including the FG falcon.
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Re: ANCAP vs REAL world crashes. small cars not so good.
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