The wise body designer looks ahead to the type of statutory safety requirements that might be in existence by the time his current design has been on the road for some years. But the necessary testing of prototypes is expensive. The author describer a computer simulation of impact tests, based on empirical data from static crush tests and the equations of motion.
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