I'm just wondering what they'd use to test it first before making a person slide down. Perhaps a crash-test dummy equal to the dude's weight?

Though, I still wouldn't be convinced to do it even if they tested it a hundred times.

Maybe if they didn't let crash test dummies operate all their equipment there wouldn't be so many accidents. Those guys are just doing what they were made to do.

Actual data from http://www.flachslaw.com/library/the-dangers-of-unbelted-backseat-passengers.cfm

A study at the University of Buffalo reveals that passengers who don’t wear seatbelts significantly increase the driver’s risk of dying in an auto accident. When a car is in a head-on collision, the passenger in the backseat becomes a “backseat bullet,” shooting from his seat and slamming into the back of the driver or other passengers. Dietrich Jehle, an associate professor of emergency medicine at Buffalo says that, “the odds of death were almost three times higher for the unbelted passenger and two times higher for the driver,” in head-on collisions.

In the District of Columbia, all passengers are required to wear safety belts. However, in Virginia, only those passengers in the front seat are required to wear belts. But, as in many cases, just because the action isn’t illegal doesn’t make it a good idea.

Researchers at Buffalo ran tests with crash test dummies and found that when the passenger behind the driver is unbelted, there is a four-fold increase in the maximum force to the driver’s head and chest.

Jehle estimates that if 95% rear passengers wore seatbelts, we would save more than 800 lives a year and prevent more than 65,000 injuries. This would represent a savings of about $3.8 billion a year in the United States.

>> ^dag:
For the confuddled, ietest is an old test account we used when VideoSift was just starting up to make sure things were working in the notoriously crappy Internet Explorer 6.
ietest has been volunteered to act as a crash test dummy. Or kind of like when they used to test electric chairs by putting a dead pig into the chair and hooking it up.


Death to the sockpuppet!

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For the confuddled, ietest is an old test account we used when VideoSift was just starting up to make sure things were working in the notoriously crappy Internet Explorer 6.

ietest has been volunteered to act as a crash test dummy. Or kind of like when they used to test electric chairs by putting a dead pig into the chair and hooking it up.

>> ^gwiz665:
Mine too, but I've stopped scaring crows.
>> ^ponceleon:
My life... on film.



Actually, I was referring to the crash-test dummy.

You have NO idea how much I identify with that poor crash test dummy.

Wow, when I reread what I wrote 2 days ago I realize that my self-pitying narcissism is virtually boundless. Don't you feel sorry for me?

You have NO idea how much I identify with that poor crash test dummy. Bravo!

*animation

upvoted for showing their cars crashing (in a sporty scenario, not a crash test dummy scenario). It's infinitely better than those stupid jeep commercials where they traverse ridiculously rocky ground and somehow come out unscathed. Off by an inch and it would obliterate your car. These scenario's are much more believably, even if most of them are courses.

*vintage

i think i had already seen this here at VS. Did maybe someone re-post it?

well, whatever.

btw, just to answer Ivegotthebends almost one year after his post: he for some reason wanted to do himself the dive. But he obviously had no authorization: he stated he'd have thrown a crash test dummy (or whatever are/were they called).

A "deep voice" on a singer is a baritone. FYI.

I happen to like this song a lot. It's kind of beautiful in its own way.

Go figure, a band called The Crash Test Dummies don't take themselves too seriously - and thus, made for a pretty forgettable parody by Al.