Originally Posted by Dodgeram44
To answer your question, the car is hooked up to a cable/pulley system that is connected to these engines which wind up the cable and make the car accelerate down the runway and crash in to the wall or whatever. And since the car is being pulled by a cable there's no chance of it going off course and crashing into something else. I guess that is easier or safer than remote controlling the car using its own engine.
Well, this makes sense. I also thought of something after I'd posted ; which is > that it's not so important to run on it's own engine to test the strength and safety of Humans
/Dummies
! It's the speed that's the catalyzing reason to evaluate the structural integrity to help establish the safety of occupants ! Also, I'm imagining that all of the gasoiline is drained to prevent fires and/or explosions
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