On Wed, 29 Apr 1998 00:35:35 -0500 Tonya Pope said:
>fwiw, those head-on tests have to be taken with a grain of salt.  ...
>...      scratches and walk away from a straight head-on  into a brick
>wall, but that very same vehicle if you hit something off-center would
>nearly kill you.

this is what Mercedes has been trying to convince the feds about for years
... that statistics show that the great majority of frontal crashes are
not head-on, but off-center. and they've built their cars to crush in
off-center crashes, not head-ons. but the feds find it easier to build
brick walls than the off-center impact tester, so ... :(
joel