Fake town in sweeden where care safety innovations are tested.

[SteveG1988]

http://www.caranddriver.com/features/how-automotive-safety-tech-is-developed-feature

[noelbotevera]

http://www.caranddriver.com/features/how-automotive-safety-tech-is-developed-feature

They took our American name! Well that dills everyone's pickle. Carson City is forever ours...

[SteveG1988]

http://www.caranddriver.com/features/how-automotive-safety-tech-is-developed-feature

They took our American name! Well that dills everyone's pickle. Carson City is forever ours...

Heh, it does look like an old west set tho, with the obviously fake movie set buildings.

If i were there i would name it Raccoon City or Liberty City.

[Big John]

I more think they chose that name since it starts with "car" rather that what was said in the article.

[cpzilliacus]

http://www.caranddriver.com/features/how-automotive-safety-tech-is-developed-feature

Well, not exactly the only place.  There's the Smart Road run by Virginia Tech and VDOT in Blacksburg, where a fair amount of safety testing and research is done.

Now they do not have a town along the Smart Road, but I am not entirely convinced that such structures are needed.

The Autoliv facility in the municipality of Vårgårda ("spring garden" or "spring yard"), Sweden appears to be here on Google.

[cpzilliacus]

Heh, it does look like an old west set tho, with the obviously fake movie set buildings.

Though the luminaires in the images are pretty classically Nordic.  Not sure I have ever seen anything like them in the western U.S. (or anywhere in the U.S.).

[SteveG1988]

Heh, it does look like an old west set tho, with the obviously fake movie set buildings.

Though the luminaires in the images are pretty classically Nordic.  Not sure I have ever seen anything like them in the western U.S. (or anywhere in the U.S.).

It's a Ikea Western, everything is flat pack and they have sweedish meatballs.  I was referencing the old practice of setting up just shells like that in the middle of nowhere out in Italy to make a spaghetti western, where if it doesn't need to be seen up close it is just a flat surface with just enough detail to be seen as something versus just empty space.

[SignGeek101]

http://www.caranddriver.com/features/how-automotive-safety-tech-is-developed-feature

They took our American name! Well that dills everyone's pickle. Carson City is forever ours...

I'm sure the name Carson city is derived from the word 'car'. Several city names across the new world are copied from Europe anyway.

[cpzilliacus]

I'm sure the name Carson city is derived from the word 'car'. Several city names across the new world are copied from Europe anyway.

Car or automobile in Swedish is bil.

[pumpkineater2]

I think they should have named it Carrson city...

[vdeane]

http://www.caranddriver.com/features/how-automotive-safety-tech-is-developed-feature

They took our American name! Well that dills everyone's pickle. Carson City is forever ours...

We've taken more European names than they took from us.  Potsdam, Geneva, Warsaw, Poland, Russia, Hamburg, Athens, Rome, Troy, etc.