Originally Posted by
mr_bill
So that makes the test useless in your expert opinion?
Baby steps.
Learn what you can with a slightly modified test protocol, analyze.
Adapt to make a better test, learn some more, adapt, and pretty soon....
-mr. bill
Not useless at all. I think that including a side and back helmet impact would add worthwhile information.
It reminds me of motorcycle helmet testing I would look into back in the day. The testing was almost always done as a drop test, which only tested the top of the helmet.
Of the motorcycle crashes my friends and myself had been in, none of the primary impacts were at the top of the helmet.