&gt;Your tax dollars at work.<p>Wrong.<p>This video and test were done by the IIHS, an insurance-industry funded groups.  The DOT crash tests are lame; it took the IIHS to push offset-frontal crash tests like this.  The Federal government thinks that all auto crashes are frontal head-on crashes with no offset whatsoever.<p>IIHS and European tests are far better, but as usual, the US standards are stupid and backwards, just like they are for vehicle lighting and everything else.  The DOT requirement for those idiotic &quot;sealed beam&quot; headlights are what kept the fronts of cars looking so ugly for so long, while the Europeans had moved to better-designed halogen bulbs and housing long before but couldn&#x27;t export them to the US.