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[@eddie054]

57" Poncho's are so beautiful.

[@mdogg1604]

1:22 hands-free driving back in 1957!

[@drgabe2908]

This is quite impressive

[@ThomasHill-q3c]

Those 1957 Pontiacs are great looking cars. Compared to the tri-five Chevrolets, they are still definitely overlooked as classics.

[@Cybersynthetica]

Geez those cars didn’t even look like they were going that fast. Can’t imagine how nasty those wrecks would have been at actual highway speeds and not the parking lot speed these tests were conducted at…

[@crow33215]

And now in 2018 it’s a reality for self driving cars. Awesome

[@carloscollomps1552]

2018? We are now in 2022 and we have sentient computers!

[@MrObsessiveakaPlastiksurgeon]

It's no wonder that Cadillac got damaged the way it did! Back then, that car was underpinned by GM's "X" frame (new for '57) and wasn't exactly the safest thing in the world when it came down to side impacts. The Pontiac hitting it had a perimeter frame (side rails) and would have at least fared better. I do miss four door hardtops though..........they went out of existence in the late '70's due to the safety Nazi's and have never returned. Maybe they were a bit unsafe in a side impact, but with today's safety advances, I can't see how that couldn't be built to pass safety regs. I think they look soooo much better than that ugly center pillar blocking your peripheral vision!

[@EricJamesHanson]

also it was a 4 door hardtop with no pillar in the middle. Our 93 Ciera sedan got T boned at least that hard in the same spot and the door remained strongly in place, just with some deformation.

[@waynejohnson1304]

The Cadillac didn't do too badly. The rear door was hit at an angle but, the front door was barely pushed in at all.

[@tomservo56954]

Despite what people think, GM was concerned about the affect Ford's safety push had in the minds of consumers...

[@dave1956]

I don’t think that the ‘57 Cadillac would pass modern side impact standards.

[@alexp362]

6:22 a couple of beautiful cars destroyed!!

[@jamesfox2579]

I know, right!😢

[@toesuf94]

I like the engineer walking up to a fresh crash and tossing his cigarette out and stomping it next to the crashed Pontiac. Sigh.

[@EricJamesHanson]

Unistick control was a big deal, but never used. I used to hear relatives talking (gushing) about it when I was little in the late fifties.

[@UnlicensedOkie]

That runway sweeper could’ve been used when the piece of a plane fell onto a runway, and the concord ran it over, rupturing the fuel tank and causing the concord to crash into a ball of fire

[@daviddelapena2493]

The background of safety for today

[@gcfifthgear]

And more than 65 years later, GM is still taking small steps in self-driving cars! (It hurt to see the 1957 Pontiac broadside the '57 Cadillac, even though it showed the vulnerability of the new X-frame design Cadillac began using that year)

[@mamz1404]

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[@frequencyfluxfandango8504]

'Homes are people. just as corporations are people' ? Yes, but just totally different Kinds of people...

[@jamesslick4790]

Everyone gets pissed off at the concept that "corporations are people", And I get it, Corporations are "faceless", But here's the deal: Do you know who owns corporations? Stockholders. Now I know you are picturing some old rich guy, like the "Monopoly" dude. But I own AT&T, Intel & PepsiCo - stock- (And I'm just a semi literate "blue collar" dude.) I also "own" a home. My home or the companies that I own a part of are not "people", BUT they would not exist WITHOUT people. Now go have a nice,crisp cold Mountain Dew, while using your smartphone (hopefully on AT&T or CricKet!) to get investment info, and YOU (a person!) can own a bit of a corporation too!

[@jurivlk5433]

They should have had "the worlds largest vacuum cleaner in Paris when the Concord fell from the sky.

[@turbinegraphics16]

With a computer small enough to fit in a factory workshop.

[@Slacksfifth]

Back then those cars , were considered toilet paper. Now there worth millions. Toilet paper worth millions; can you believe that.

[@pl5624]

The value of toilet paper today is rising...

[@robertdiamondoil2384]

Joy stick driving like steering a forklift

[@aaronbrown2976]

wow that's crazy how that car was driving by remote control and that's all most 100 year ago

[@101Volts]

_60_ years. Try adding another 30 to that before you say "Almost," please.

[@alphonsozorro7952]

You are 40 years short; 60 years ago.

[@zorroalphonso4354]

"Our democracies are people" says the AUTOcrat of GM in his speech. If so, why GM lays off people if profit is at stake? And starting in the 90's, takes jobs awayf from the USA, to Mexico where labor is cheaper. Capitalism puts profit before people, no matter what the higher-ups say.

[@eddie054]

Maybe the dysfunction of humans to commingle.

[@mikeweizer3149]

@@eddie054 ........And Communism and socialism enslave us all!!!!.

[@NoPrivateProperty]

unsafe at any speed. the automobile is a curse on man

[@jeniferwashingtontherealto6449]

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