Crashing into a Brick wall
October 10, 2020 10:53 AM   Subscribe

The pandemic meant IIHS senior crash test engineer Becky Mueller was stuck at home. She used the practice from her childhood to crash test LEGO cars. After 2 months and 1500 pictures, you can view the result. Additional camera angles and stills are available here.
posted by Monochrome (12 comments total) 17 users marked this as a favorite
 
That was great — I dug the music the most. Anyone know who that was?
posted by Big Al 8000 at 11:17 AM on October 10, 2020


Should I infer from this that they use a Zamboni-like machine to sweep up the small bits of car left over after a crash? Because that would be cool.
posted by ardgedee at 11:40 AM on October 10, 2020 [2 favorites]


I dug the music the most. Anyone know who that was?

It is The Get Go by SaraoMusic (they make music primarily intended for use in audio visual projects).
posted by RichardP at 11:48 AM on October 10, 2020 [2 favorites]


I suppose that's supposed to be oil...
posted by flamewise at 11:48 AM on October 10, 2020


Well, that was delightful.
posted by box at 12:43 PM on October 10, 2020 [1 favorite]


I like that there was a anthropomorphic test device's head just hanging on a rack in the lab
posted by scruss at 2:30 PM on October 10, 2020 [1 favorite]


I was about to ask about the car crash Zamboni, too. Is that a thing?
posted by They sucked his brains out! at 3:46 PM on October 10, 2020


This is how I imagine a German factory looks.
posted by waving at 5:05 PM on October 10, 2020


Ride-on vacuum sweepers are a pretty standard bit of kit for industrial cleaning.
posted by rockindata at 5:51 PM on October 10, 2020 [1 favorite]


Oh, this should be the start of a genre of people recreating their jobs in Lego!
posted by Harald74 at 11:06 PM on October 10, 2020


Oh, this should be the start of a genre of people recreating their jobs in Lego!

Scene 1: (Lego figure wearing pajama pants and a work shirt) Lego figure sits at a makeshift desk in the living room, staring at monitors, for 8 hours
Scene 2: (late night, room is illuminated by brightly glowing monitors) Lego figure returns to the living room to "answer just a few emails"
posted by Dip Flash at 6:40 AM on October 11, 2020 [2 favorites]


I will say that folks at my division at work have put out LEGO-based parables. Don't hack in a special scheme for any customers because it is hard to support and just technical debt, etc.

I think it may have been a fun (and very difficult!) COVID project for the director's kids.
posted by batter_my_heart at 5:15 PM on October 11, 2020


« Older Which European cities have most different names in...   |   Amy Sillman's Breakthrough Year Newer »


This thread has been archived and is closed to new comments