Lego Porsche Crashtest in Slow-Motion (2017) [video]
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And the good bit: you can put it back together again!
This is what they mean with rapid disassembly I guess. One of the problems in the Lego sorting project is how to disassemble sub-assemblies that arrive in unsorted lots and that's a very hard problem to solve due to all the various ways in which the parts can be assembled. This is a pretty nasty way of solving that particular problem but the number of parts damaged would have to be very low for this to be a feasible real world solution.
some more pics here:
https://www.heise.de/ct/artikel/c-t-beim-ADAC-Der-Lego-Porsc...
It was SUCH a joy to put an audiobook in my ears and work away on this. Sooo relaxing. I called it LEGO-therapy.
I highly recommend it.
The “skin” of the car on the other hand is very flimsy because they had to use a lot of tricks to get all the panels to have the correct angles with only standard LEGO parts. Many of them will flex when you touch them because they only have 2 attachment points.
I can highly recommend making this model. It has a 4 speed transmission with paddle shifters on the steering column. It’s one of the most mechanically interesting models I’ve put together, and yet all of the complexity is practically impossible to see once the model is made.
One question I have, was the speed of the crash test scaled down to factor in the scale of the model or was it done at the full speed of the full size car. If it wasn’t, it wasn’t a very fair test!
Whatever the speed, this doesn’t look survivable, for either occupants or frankly any imaginary plastic people in the range of all that wickedly sharp LEGO shrapnel and flying wheels. I think a real 911 would do substantially better in a crash test; this is more like the result of those supercar crashes you see where some poor sod has lost control into Armco at 180mph.