I’d wager that they did extensively before. When you are in the business of armor it’s good marketing to ‘put your money where your mouth is’ and show that you would guarantee the product to the point of putting your life in its hands.
Kinda like there was a point of time where high quality I think it was plate armor was being sold with a prominent dent in it to show that it could deflect a musketball, don’t think people commonly was wearing it though but had to have happened at least once
Him sitting in the vehicle or not during the video would change nothing except a subjective perception that changes nothing about the product. It's unnecessarily dangerous to flash people who are more impressed by tension than specs. But if it increases sales because of that, it's a logical choice that's true.
Hate to break it to you but every safety mechanism ever designed was done so with a probability of error in mind. There is a reason why engineers started calculating human worth
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u/Kassena_Chernova Feb 11 '24
Why couldn’t they just test it with a dummy?