[Car Crash Test Footage]
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- Опубликовано: 23 июн 2017
- 16mm footage of car crash tests used to create computer simulations.
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Miss my little Laguna with SS rims 5.7L Cali car. Funny this was a mid size too.
It might not look like it, however, this was the very beginning of U.S. made vehicles being focused on safety. One of the biggest safety improvements was the collapsible steering column. These we new to the market in 1968, a couple years before this video was made. Before when a vehicle was in a frontal accident, the steering column would get shoved into the cabin often seriously injuring or killing the driver. In addition to other new safety features including soft-padded dashboards, dashboards use to be completely metal. Also tempered 'safety glass' was new to the market, instead of glass breaking in large sharp pieces it would explode into small popcorn particles like cars still do today. Additionally, stronger passenger cabins were built to withstand collisions and rollovers, while still in their early phases. Finally interrogated shoulder harness seatbelts were new standard features, before only some cars would have shoulder belts and they were extra straps on the headliner, you had to clip them onto your lap belt to use them so often they were forgotten due to the hassle.
The reason this is noteworthy is all this happened within a 5-10 year span. Cars in the late 50's and early 60's were incredibly dangerous, by the early 70's they were far safer. All of these improvements still exist in cars today, who knows how many people's lives it saved.
In 1974 I got my grandfather 's 1971 Buick Electra coupe at the age of 16. I was probably the only kid that wore the lap and shoulder belts back then. Fast forward to 1978 and a head on collision with a drunk driver in a 1977 Cadillac deVille. 1 walked away with bruises from the belts. He creamed the steering wheel and his passenger went through the windshield. The other driver was wearing his three point belt, but had the shoulder strap under his arm- basically just a lap belt. Have always worn a seat belt ever since. Sometimes have had a hard time getting passengers t buckle up.
Where do u find these footages?!
Thanks for uploading
Those are 73 Laguna's?
I had as I got my license Chocolate 5.7L and SS rims nice car very rare
Yes they are. The rims were a fairly rare option, I am surprised to see them in a crash test.
Those where strong cars. Solid steel
In a crash, they were trash compared to modern vehicles. The scar in my head is testament to this fact. They did drive wonderfully though. Wish I could find a half way decent example now.
@@rickdacosta9727 I've never owned anything newer than 1987 so I wouldn't know about modern vehicles. But I drove my 83 Suburban home after rolling it over 2 times and landing on parked cars. I got T boned in my 79 F250 and drove home, the tailgate did come off. Rolled my 85 Blazer into a river, pulled it up the embankment and had it running and driving home in about an hr. Never hurt in a car but fell out of a bucket onto the truck from 40 feet, lots of stiches, broken jaw, skull, teeth, leg, arm, collar bone, wrist, ribs, punctured lung put in a coma for 12 days, 20 days total in ICU. Back cutting trees 3 days out of the hospital. Still have all the cars and all the scars and a new(to me) 86 crew cab as of 2016 runs like a top! Look out west, I picked my truck up for 5k with a new target crate motor just put in.
@mrs abe in the 1950's we owned several models from 1906 to 1953. And my parents weren't exactly rich, we just knew how to use our money. We found an affordable house bought in 1936 by my grandparents, but when they passed away horridly as it was, we decided to take over the home as our own..beautiful art deco design, streamlined, opera leaf golden light pendants on each wall casting a marvelous glass fracture shine on our dark ebony and emerald striped walls. My grandparents hand painted 170 Fluer de lis flowers of France symbols on the wall of it, man it was something else. Took almost 5 months, it was a side project. After a while they decided to cut a piece of wood out carved to the exact shape, and then painted the template for the rest. They were painters, they painted on our automobiles, toys, sometime clothing although if I was brighter I would refer to that as stitching embellishments not painting, and painted on furniture. All these beautiful art deco patterns. The reading room was a rich dark almost orange red, then the kitchen was pale blue with light lemon yellow cross Monticello style lacing across it in this diamond esque pattern, are living room was half etched glass marble (a material next to no one uses now, a opaque yet glassy shiny marble that was beautiful beyond anything and felt incredibly smooth..almost like a salt wall but more stone). We had alternating white and dark blue brick made of the marble glass, and next to that a thin red oven baked brick. Silver and gold was my parents motto, my mother never left the bed without wearing her beautifully faceted Ruby earrings from 1879 give by my grandmother, she as well recover her typewriter that she purchased in 1871 from a store that had been selling them in the time, given to my mother in 1930. She said "dear, trouble yourself no more and type away with lore". During the great depression my parents apartment in Manhattan wasn't doing them too well, they had just moved from Salem in 1920, and returned back to the home in 1939...having me 2 years prior but our dodgy home was simply too small for three children who were of course late teens at the time I was born however still at the home because of the depression in 1937. The depression had well ended in cities and large towns by the middle of the 1930's, however it hit so much harder in the gut for small towns like Salem. Forgotten by everything but haunted stories.
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Wait. These crashes were used to create computer simulators in the 70's?