Originally Posted by
busdriver1959
I’m not buying the mips hype. We were all born with mips already installed. It’s our scalp. It functions exactly like mips but with even more movement. Until the testers use a dummy head with a layer that acts the way the scalp does, I consider the testing invalid and will not believe that mips is safer than any other helmet design out there.
Seems like a valid point... Are the tests done on those plastic skulls we generally see in the videos? Presumably for sophisticated tests it's at least a shell structure with some decisions regarding a range of human skull bone density and appropriately placed structural reinforcing and weak spots. Impact fracture characteristics would be more complex than just some measure on an accelerometer, depending on where the impact actually occurs, as well as the vectors and even the material impacted.
Food for thought, and idle time research.
