What's the deal with crash testing?

Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

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🗓️ 16 September 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Crash testing has been around since the 1930s, but only got serious in the 1970s. Today we dive in and learn all about why companies and the U.S. government purposefully wreck cars.

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0:00.0	There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.
0:05.7	That's why we launched The Big Take.
0:08.3	It's a daily podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Radio that turns down the volume a bit
0:14.0	to give you some space to think.
0:16.4	I'm Wes Kosova.
0:17.7	Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.
0:23.6	Listen to The Big Take on the I Heart Radio app Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.
0:31.6	Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of I Heart Radio.
0:41.4	Hey and welcome to the podcast.
0:42.8	I'm Josh and there's Chuck and there's Jerry over there and this is Stuff You Should Know,
0:47.8	The Podcast.
0:50.2	All right, we've done one on airbags, right?
0:55.5	Which one did we do that was all about like the crumple zones and all that stuff?
1:00.1	That's a great question Chuck.
1:02.0	I've been really trying to figure that out.
1:04.4	I think it must have been Pintos.
1:08.2	Was it?
1:10.7	I know that we talked a lot about car safety and engineering and how I don't know man.
1:16.2	I don't know.
1:17.2	I suddenly creeped out.
1:18.7	Are you confident?
1:19.7	We have not done this one.
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