Pile up: Worlds biggest crash test - Ch4.

[BossHogg]

I've just started watching this, could be quite interesting, setting up a motorway pile up using real people.

[BossHogg]

Ahh! The drivers are driving them remotely, they're not actually in them!

[Joseph Ducreux]

I can understand why they used the gravel, as both a friction and visibility reducer - but surely using water would have been better and more appropriate to incidents on the UK motorways?

Edited by Joseph Ducreux on Sunday 15th June 22:19

[BossHogg]

Especially on my patch, a lot of the RTCs I attend are down to motorists not driving to the conditions during torrential rain.

[Maxdecel]

interesting why the Golf airbag failed, thought the sensors worked on rapid deceleration not impact, so it doesn't matter where they are positioned.
Thought they located under centre console area generally.

[BossHogg]

The Golf was extremely lucky to go under the trailer as the Audi lifted it. That was destined to be a fatal all day long if the Audi had hit the trailer in a different place.

[BossHogg]

I thoroughly enjoyed that, very interesting indeed.

[Maxdecel]

Me too, must've taken some research & planning. So it was the compromise setting of the airbag sensor which is totally understandable, don't want low deceleration knocks triggering just as a high figure would be unsuitable too.

[Bungleaio]

Very interesting programme, the older lady was visibly shaken by it whilst the American professor was grinning like a Cheshire Cat.

I think they were a bit gutted that the F150 didn’t pile into everything but Tito was too cautious a driver.

[Freakuk]

Enjoying it, but they dragged it out over the 2 hours.

Great setup and analysis, I do wonder of the 4 none public drivers knew of what was to come as none seemed to make any attempt to stop compared with the 4 in the show.

Older lady was visibly shaken and actually stopped, but the Vivaro just slammed in (see comment above). Scouse girl, what was she doing... stopped and didn't hit anything then turned into the wagon which you could see through the dust???

Golf was one in a million, passenger was likely dead or seriously injured/life changing injuries.

The investigators did really well to piece it together and I guess in many years to come autonomous driving will take over and RTC's will reduce dramatically, it's going to take decades to get every existing vehicle off the road to make this a reality, certainly not in my lifetime.

[Smollet]

Interesting viewing. A mate is one of the engineers involved. I still don’t understand why the term fast lane was used so much. It’s not

[BossHogg]

I never use that term, it's always lanes 1, 2 and 3.

[Smollet]

BossHogg said:

I never use that term, it's always lanes 1, 2 and 3.

You’d think a programme about road safety might’ve done the same. My mate was driving the remote white van. He said it gave him great pleasure in stuffing the Prius

[BossHogg]

[cerb4.5lee]

BossHogg said:

I never use that term, it's always lanes 1, 2 and 3.

I tend to use inside lane/middle lane/outside lane, but my Dad always called it the fast lane though. But he did used to drive a 1979 5.0 V8 Mustang from 1980 to 1990 though, so he was generally going fast in the fast lane back then in fairness to him!

[daqinggregg]

cerb4.5lee said:

I tend to use inside lane/middle lane/outside lane, but my Dad always called it the fast lane though. But he did used to drive a 1979 5.0 V8 Mustang from 1980 to 1990 though, so he was generally going fast in the fast lane back then in fairness to him!

Probably with a rep’s Vauxhall Cavalier SRi 130 up his harris, flashing its lights for him to get out way.

[Freakuk]

Smollet said:

You d think a programme about road safety might ve done the same. My mate was driving the remote white van. He said it gave him great pleasure in stuffing the Prius

Confirms what I thought (and mentioned earlier) about the other drivers already knowing what was coming and failing to stop.

[griffsomething]

Some of those dash cam clips featured though, head on into a DBS?! Eeeek, expensive prang.

Also F150 and a Dodge Grand Caravan were pretty odd choices?

The northern lady thinking a 15 year old Prius was “dead posh”?!

I know the trailer was tipping to make it more of a glancing blow, but that Golf A pillar held up better than I thought it would for a 20 year old design, thought the roof would just be ripped clean offf.

Wonder if the F150 and Boxster might end up being repaired and back on the road, minor damage and somewhat interesting.

[cerb4.5lee]

daqinggregg said:

cerb4.5lee said:

I tend to use inside lane/middle lane/outside lane, but my Dad always called it the fast lane though. But he did used to drive a 1979 5.0 V8 Mustang from 1980 to 1990 though, so he was generally going fast in the fast lane back then in fairness to him!

Probably with a rep s Vauxhall Cavalier SRi 130 up his harris, flashing its lights for him to get out way.

I remember him having a brilliant race with a BMW 635CSi once on the M1...good times. Life(or at least driving cars fast) was loads better back then I reckon for certain.

No speed cameras or traffic volume to worry about, and you just had to keep your eyes out for the odd unmarked copper. I want to go back!

[Bungleaio]

griffsomething said:

Also F150 and a Dodge Grand Caravan were pretty odd choices?

Probably so they could sell the data to other people/world wide. The F150 is a huge seller in america so chances are that if there's a pile up in America one of them will be involved.