Ultimate Crash Test: Impact Preview
Preview: Season 52 Episode 11 | 30sVideo has Closed Captions
Forensic science is put to the test after the first-ever staged multi-vehicle pileup.
Car safety experts just pulled off a first-of-its-kind remote controlled multi-vehicle pile up. Now investigators are put to the test as they analyze the data and look for insights into driver behavior and vehicle design.
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Ultimate Crash Test: Impact Preview
Preview: Season 52 Episode 11 | 30sVideo has Closed Captions
Car safety experts just pulled off a first-of-its-kind remote controlled multi-vehicle pile up. Now investigators are put to the test as they analyze the data and look for insights into driver behavior and vehicle design.
Problems playing video? | Closed Captioning Feedback
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship- [Narrator] After achieving a remotely controlled pileup.
- Everybody is safe, we will now investigate.
- [Narrator] What can be learned from the chaos.
- Oh my God.
- [Narrator] Can forensic experts rewind the wreckage?
- We always have a question mark over the physics for that.
- That answers a lot of questions.
- [Narrator] Driving data-driven safety.
- That's going to be a severe head trauma, there's no doubt.
- [Narrator] Ultimate crash test.
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