50 years of progress

[clever_title]

Be thankful that "they don't make them like they used to"

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check out what happens to the passenger compartments in the 1959 and 2009 (0:45 to 1:15 on the video)

Bless you, automotive engineers, for what you've done to protect passengers in lighter and lighter cars. Now get to work on figuring out how to protect people outside of the cars in

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[setzeroni]

Now get to work on figuring out how to protect people outside of the cars in collisions.

Pedestrian crumple zones - I'm on it.

[clever_title]

Looks like Honda has a pedestrian crash-test dummy to figure out what their designs do:

[indieb0i]

Part of me is just stunned at how easily the Malibu shreds through the front of the Bel Air. You'd think that behemoth would offer some resistance. But considering '59 was only a year after any car company in the world started offering seat belts as standard equipment, safety clearly wasn't their goal.

[grayflannelsuit]

What is that pinkish dust coming from the Bel-Air? Rust?

[mizerychick]

Crash test dummy blood

[grayflannelsuit]

mmmmmmmm mmmmmmmmmmm mmmmmmmmmmm mmmmmmmmmmmm