Germany’s equivalent of the NHTSA took a 1:8 scale Lego Porsche 911 and crashed it into a barrier at 28.5 MPH
It looks like the Allgemeiner Deutscher Automobil-Club (or ADAC for short) had some spare time on their hands in order to conduct the most unusual crash test. According to ADAC on their blog post earlier yesterday (May. 24,2017) ADAC in conjunction with a media outlet took the time to assemble a 2,700 piece lego set that had 856 individual steps for the sole purpose of destroying it to smithereens shortly after. Thanks to the ADAC facility being equipped with several high-speed cameras as well as the proper equipment, lighting, and test track to carry out this 1/8th scale test, the entire affair was captured on camera. Check out the entire build process and resulting crash below.
Set to the famous German Waltz, “The Blue Danube, ” by Johann Strauss, the Porsche 911 travels in slow-motion at 28.5 MPH towards the barrier. If you convert that 1/8th scale speeds up to 1:1 speeds, you can imagine a Porsche 911 made out of life-sized lego bricks traveling at a little over 80.5 MPH, to put the forces involved into perspective. Just as you’d imagined, when the Porsche hits the miniature wall at full tilt, the Lego Porsche 911 explodes in a panoply of slow-motion glory.
And chalk it up to German engineering for the resulting damage as the chassis itself held up well to the forces.
“The chassis of the car had no problems with the high speed, and there were very little damaged stones on impact. It was almost exclusively the click connections between the components.
Keen eyes will notice that there were no tiny dummies (or lego men) included in the test. Unfortunately, sensors to record the forces attached to tiny dummies weren’t available. But a cursory glance at the aftermath would lead us to believe that those dummies wouldn’t survive the resulting crash.
