Further, car manufacturers certainly tune there vehicles to get the
safety rating they aspire to rather than decreasing the de-facto injury
rates (which would be the real application).
Think about the migration from the frontal crash scenario (rare in
reality) ratings to offset-crash scenario (much more common).
Also note that cars are not measured for the damage they cause to other
cars. As a result vehicle manufacturers go easy with misaligned bumper
heights, no side-guards on 18 wheelers (at least here in Canada)
In standard benchmarks you find the same:
TPC-C and TPC-D represent older generations TPC-E and TPC-H newer ones
which try to get closer to real life and learn from past mistakes.
--
Serge Rielau
DB2 Solutions Development
IBM Toronto Lab
IOD Conference
http://www.ibm.com/software/data/ondemandbusiness/conf2006/
Received on Fri Sep 15 2006 - 11:10:25 CDT
