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Page 2896 1 Why don't you go before the jury and have 2 you explain what this is? 3 A This is a picture from my 1973 SAE brake 4 paper, and it shows the assembly we used for brake 5 testing which you can see in the background here is 6 part of a big machine used for testing brakes called a 7 brake dynamometer. 8 In back of this section right here are a set 9 of big plates which simulate the weight of a car. 10 We have -- in a rotating form what you have 11 is the chassis, body, and passengers of a car. 12 Q Let me stop you there. 13 Is the point of this dynamometer -- and I 14 have problems with that word from time to time -- just 15 to replace the car? 16 A Yes. It is the vehicle to study in the 17 laboratory a complete brake assembly and have it 18 behave just as though it was in the car. 19 That consists of a motor back here, inertia 20 plates which are right here, a brake assembly which 21 you can see very little of because of the wheel and