When scientists all over the world carry out crash assessments on automobiles, and also you see them compress and break, they’re normally going a lot slower than you assume. The IIHS, for example, does frontal crash assessments at 40 mph (64 km/h). So what would occur in the event you went an entire lot quicker?

French YouTube channel Vilebrequin (French for crankshaft) determined to search out out. They needed to know what would occur in the event you ran right into a wall on a freeway whereas vastly exceeding the pace restrict.

That really proved fairly troublesome to do, because it seems that France’s highway designers take nice pains to not put huge partitions on highways. In order that they rented an airfield and assembled 72 concrete blocks to type a wall they determine weighs round 86 tonnes.

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Into it, they deliberate to drive a BMW 5-Sequence wagon. Earlier than you go worrying that they destroyed one thing good, you need to know three issues. First, it’s a diesel. Second, they purchased it (amongst different causes) as a result of it had 284,000 km (176,469 miles) on the odometer.

Third, once they tried to clear fault codes, they found that the odometer was mendacity. In truth, this automobile had pushed greater than 650,000 km (403,891 miles) because it left the manufacturing unit. The hosts report that they tried to strip the automobile to search out any elements that could possibly be helpful for another person earlier than conducting their experiment, however couldn’t discover a single, solitary merchandise that was price maintaining.

And so, they took out the entrance seat, put in a distant managed driving system, put a digicam about the place the motive force’s head can be, and linked it to a VR headset. With that, they employed a chase automobile, and tried to drive the 5-Sequence wagon into the wall as quick as attainable.

Though they have been capturing for a pace of 200 km/h (124 mph), they wound up solely having the ability to obtain a pace of round 150 km/h (93 mph). Whereas that’s not as quick as initially meant, it signifies that the automobile was touring at a pace that I don’t doubt the general public studying this have achieved at one level or one other of their lives.

That makes this check and the outstanding destruction of the automobile all of the extra sobering. It’s a superb reminder of the risks that include pace.