Sunday, January 31, 2010

Toyota Seizes Opportunity to use Grafton's Traffic Dummy for Crash Testing

When Toyota Engineer Dodge E. Pedils got wind of how often the traffic dummy near the common was struck by a car, he thought he could be a company hero. “By putting crash test technology right in the dummy we can get lots of statistics on accidents, and then report how many of these cars are not Toyotas,” he says. After installing a test system in the barrels last week, they have reported that 1 in 50 cars actually hit the dummy, most are not Toyotas, and only 1 in 1000 have a BOS sticker on it. Pedils added “We may have caused a few deaths recently, but we think that the American people deserve to know how unsafe other cars are – and are thankful to the town of Grafton for helping us tell our story.”

1 comment:

  1. Ok...once again, I have the solution.
    Lets build a "flyover", similar to the one linking Route 3 to the Sagamore Bridge heading to the Cape.
    We could apply for some of that stimulus money. Project is shovel-ready (I can use my snow shovel...that is always ready).
    Geez...do I have to solve ALL the problems? Harrumph.

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