Still way less people (per capita) dies on the roads of most European countries than in the US. The US should adapt qome of the safety features and rules from Europe. :)
@@volvodashcam do more pedestrians get hit by cars in the USA? I always found this european preoccupation with pedestrians getting hit by cars to be very strange
Like the introduction humour. Sandy, you can keep saying bonnet, if you want to. I'm from the UK. 😋 Nice video too. There is a fascination in why small important items and systems are designed the way they are. 👍
I think Europe has stricter pedestrian safety because people actually walk places here, in the US people look at you strange if you're trying to walk somewhere outside of a city because everywhere is giant roads and abandoned sidewalks. I felt really strange walking to a gas station to buy some food when I visited in 2016. 😅 Here it's very common to park on the outskirts of a town then walk in as parking is cheaper that way, or even use 'park and ride' systems where you park outside the town at a bus station and they transfer you in to the town.
I'm going to steal Flemming Sortkjaer post here: "In 2017, 5,977 pedestrians were killed in traffic crashes in the United States, In 2016, 5.320 pedestrians were killed in road accidents in the EU". Nah, it's just that Volvo has a history of really caring about security. They invented and gave for free the 3 point belt. Meanwhile US car manufacturer just stopped putting pointy stuff on their steering wheel (Sammy Davis Junior lost an eye because of that).
@@airheart1 Actually US city streets were designed for walking too, they were just bulldozed away far more relentlessly then in Europe to make space for cars. www.strongtowns.org/journal/2021/5/4/crime-scene-photos
Thats the dumbest bull$hit I have ever heard.. People drive in Europe, people drive in the suburbs, the countryside and from country to country.. People walk a lot in many cities in the USA, have you ever been to NYC or Washington DC, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Chicago? People are even walking in Los Angeles; dwntwn Los Angeles and Hollywood are crowded with people walking. Cities that don't have reliable public transportation and or if the shops are not within walking distance of someone's home, these people must drive. The USA is a huge country with hundreds of small to medium cities without mass public transportation and that is because the auto industry can become rich.. All the large major cities in the USA have public transportation and people walk as well as drive.. NYC has at least 5 million people walking its streets any given day. DC has about 1 million people walking any given day...
Pedestrian impact feels too much like a category invented to boost the overall score for cars that do poorly in the important categories. Same with the rating on child seat connectors. A poorly designed car can get a boost in ncap by adding silly things to the hood and having childseat connectors for 3 different connector types. A car only really needs 1 connector type because you buy the seat that works with it and all seats can be installed with just a seatbelt too.
@@_PatrickO pedestrian/bicyclist safety might not be an important factor for you as the driver, which is exactly why it need to be part of the rating as it is important for those who get hit. Not sure about the US, but around here, isofix is the standard for child seats, and if you believe those supported by the seat belts are just a safe then you should check some tests I guess safety features like automatic emergency braking are just pointless too?
@@_PatrickO A “ poorly designed car...” will be improved by the imposition of standard mandatory safety requirements. It’s not a freedom or death type deal.
@@gt5228z You only think it isn’t broken because people in the US would die either way after getting hit by a huge ass truck. But in Europe it makes an actual difference. The reason we have so many incidents involving pedestrians is that most people walk through city streets. In the US that is only true in a few cities. Your cities are build for driving every single time.
It’s not about pedestrians (or bicycles) getting hit more often or not in the EU. It’s about giving them a better chance of surviving - preferably without major injuries - if they get hit. Whether that happens 10 or 10000 pedestrians a year is irrelevant. Skipping pedestrian safety is like you not using your seatbelt; you pretty much never need it, except that one time you really wish you did as you fly through your windshield. Having said that, nice video and well explained! 👌🏻
Love the explanation of all the little design details. As a layman, I wouldn't have noticed, but it's such a pleasure to have these things pointed out. Food for the mind.
It's kind of funny how Monroe always urges you to tip the cashiers and be kind to people, but doesn't understand why the European car industry tries to save pedestrians in case you hit them with your car.
I'm curious though, do we hit more pedestrians here in Europa or the statistics are similar and it's just that in the US they are not doing anything about it.
Walking Americans are a curiosity. 😉 We have much tighter city’s in Europe where cars and pedestrians are all over each other. You don’t find that rarely in the states.
In EU they design cities for pedestrian and bike traffic first, and cars are a guest that may not harm them. RU-vid channel Not Just Bikes has informative videos on this.
The reason why we, in Europe, have a thing with pedestrians is that - as opposed to many regions of the US - we actually *have* people walking (and cycling) in significant numbers. (...and narrow roads where pedestrians will just cross willy-nilly if there's light traffic)
The pedestrians cross willy nilly because they always have right of way. We like to remind cars that they are guests. As a car driver it keeps you aware of your surroundings when pedestrians can leap out in front of you.
"Apparently pedestrian get hit by car quite often over there (in europe)". Nah, it's just that Volvo is almost the only car manufacturer that has always really cared about security. They invented the 3 point belt, and gave it for free. Now they protect pedestrians with this, it's really great. A shame that it didn't gave them enough reputation and fame to prevent them from being bought by the competition... Anyway, great video as always, thanks for the content!
Yeah Volvo always cared about security the most. But cars in Europe are required to have these kind of protection systems for pedestrians. It's part of the crash tests.
@@leonj1873 Alright, I didnt' know it was passed as a law (I'm in france btw, but not enough into cars to know about it). It's even better. Thanks for the info.
The reason for pedestrian accidents is European towns and cities encourage a mix of all road users... bikes, pedestrians, buses, trams in order to make them thrive. Shopping malls only started to exist in 1970s and have had a devastating effect on city centres. Great video.
I am an avid follower of your channel and watch your videos withing 5-6 hours of uploading. Mr. Munro not only in England but in a lot of other countries bonnet, boot, windscreen etc is used. I appreciate you using these terms. I believe like me , many non native of USA follow you. Please continue to use these terms and if possible please use or put on screen SI units when you mention the various specs.
Thank you so much for the knowledge and insights that you shared in the 'Under the Hood' and 'Hoisted' series, I learned a lot! And those kind of technical details are so satisfying and they are so much missing from the majority of car reviewers
Good stuff, I assume the difference in Europe is that there is actual pedestrian infrastructure and people walking a whole lot more than in US, I assume that also results in more unwanted car bonnet to pedestrian interactions
@Robby Dey Changes in legislation and public policy don't usually apply retroactively and often have a transition period so people could drive their huge SUVs and pickups until they reduce to a pile of rust, but the manufacturers would not be allowed to make or sell new cars with designs that aren't up to the new legislation after a given date. And European countries already have their fair share of big cars on the roads. Range Rovers, XC90s, X5s etc are common enough and they are all designed to abide by the EU pedestrian safety regulations. Occasionally you might spot an Escalade or a ridiculously sized US pickup, but I have no idea if there's some hoop one has to jump through to import one or not.
i think you should do a video (candid camera style) of you tipping a cashier, i think it would really help everyone else figure out how to navigate that potentially uncomfortable social interaction
There aren't more pedeastrian runovers in Europe than in the US. But the safety standard for those cases is higher. As cars keep getting bigger and bigger, people being runover tend to crush their heads on the hood. In the past the people got thrown into the glass. As a result with the european safety standard, the injuries on the head, especially with lower speeds, are not that severe.
I was thinking maybe there are likely more pedestrians and bikers in Europe per square mile/km due to higher population density. People in the US don't bike around as much, and allot of travel is done across long distances, excluding some old dense areas such as New York perhaps. But when looking at the statistics of pedestrian casualties, I'm seeing data showing that the US is indeed falling behind in this area, in fact the gap seems to be growing, so that doesn't seem to match my initial assumption. Maybe another factor could be more reckless driving in the states, maybe it could be tied in some fashion to higher crime statistics, or maybe it's something else I'm not aware of that would balance out the population density factor.
@@AllanSustainabilityFan I would say it's much easier to get a driver's license in most of the states than any of the European countries. People are allowed to drive at a younger age, with significantly fewer lessons and a much easier test/exam. Whenever I'm talking to US Americans visiting Germany, they are all impressed how disciplined the drivers here are. 🤷♂️
Sidenote EU has a lower fatality rate for cyclist and pedestrians than US, partly because car manufacturers are incentivised to include external safety features in case you hit someone with your car.
Not a huge EV guy, but this vehicle is very appealing to me. Especially living in a place that gets a lot of snow and salt. Volvo and Audi are pretty much the only car brands that seem to go forever without rusting. Toyota and Vw are probably the best out of the mainstream brands for rust protection IMHO
Manufacturers distract with design, tech and surface level things. Refreshing to have the curtain pulled back and see if a car genuinely is good or not. Keep em coming boys and girls!
Removable fuses and relays are incredibly useful when diagnosing electrical system failures. It is bad enough that manufactures integrate relays into the modules. I can imagine the headache of trying to do electrical diagnosis on a car without removable fuses. Sandy obviously has no vehicle repair experience, and it seem like most suggestions to reduce cost and assembly time come at the expense of maintenance and repair time or cost.
You keep commenting about the double latches. They are there for a very important reason. They also serve as hinges for the active hood/bonnet for pedestrian protection.
@@tesla_stephen4651 it's not his fault. USAians get some creative education and information sometimes. Many of them don't even understand the difference between USA and America. 😆 Many USAians think that North America is the entire world, even though the majority of USAians descent from Asia, Africa and Europe. 😂 "humans originated extraterrestrial" 🤪
Now *_That_* was _interesting._ The car designers are putting their designs into CAD and the engineers are taking those CAD files and *_not_* partitioning those before handing them to fabrication. (But I bet they still aren't up to an *octovalve* though.)
Hard to find numbers on all collisions but as far as fatalities is concerned: Pedestrian fatality rates in the US are actually higher than in western Europe
@@TheEvilmooseofdoom What does the percentage mean? Kinda unclear. I was looking at per capita statistics. To be fair there is a big gap between western and eastern European countries, and the eastern are worse than the USA average. The differences between states in the US is more gradual.
Sounds to me like "I am being criticised for saying this, that and that, so I call it something new so you can criticise me on that as well." I like that attitude.
Hey Sandy I am a engineer . Well a wile ago but always happy / love to see a detailed explanation in-depth regarding self peaceing rivets into aluminium and joining steel together and still yet not caroming . Sorry about my spelling I have dyslexia .
Latches in trunk: As said in another video, it is a safety thing to have two latches. Yes, Volvo is the leader in car safety for a reason... as we all know.
"In England this is called a bonnet... so we're going to open the bonnet..." - Everyone in the UK (not just England) clicks like. 👍 (Side note - in the UK we call the rear storage the boot, so some UK people call the front boot the "froot" - I don't think it's common though!)
Woo fancy intro animation--also I love the choice of having music at the end instead of at both bringing and end. I notice the volume seems low at times, I understand if that is a conscious choice, but if not, please turn it up a couple notches. :) I really appreciate the content and insights. It helps me think about market directions and my own inventions, too!
Wow that's awesome! I didn't expect a reply--i realize my wording was unclear. I meant the overall volume for the episodes. It could just be my phone, but I find myself able to hear most other content on RU-vid at 90% volume with ambient noise around, but your content I struggle at 100% to understand some of what is said if there is any ambient noise. Again, I can still understand but my brother is a sound engineer so self awareness I may be overly picky lol. Thank you so much for responding! You guys are amazing--such great content. I love it so much!
Ahh, that's fair then. There seems to be no standardization on video volume across youtube/twitch and it can be pretty frustrating when one video is noticeably quieter than another.
It would be interesting to see pedestrian deaths versus km walked, since I'd guess the average person in the EU walks considerably further than one in the US. (And add biking km if those classify as pedestrians.)
not strange, the 17% and 20% is the part of the total traffic deaths. But US has 3x higher death rate per capita compare to EU, 12 versus 4 per 100.000. And compare to the "best" in traffic safety UK and SWE, around 2 to 3 ,US has in average x4 to x6 higher death rates per capita. There must be some very unsafe states in US then the average is so high. The averge is higher than "worse" EU member state, Romania 9.6.
Of course Tesla has fuses. In the older cars, normal melt fuses like here. On the newer ones, electronic fuses, and of course melt fuses on high voltage. I really prefer melt fuses since it is easier to check for faults, quicker to replace and get working and so on.
I honestly like this arrangement best, still can access things like the 12v system and fuses while having enough room for a couple of back packs or tools.
@@mamadouaziza2536 328mio in US. Europe 746mio. Over double the population so not exactly even 😉 If the European Union was what was meant it's 446mio which is still 33% more. So again not exactly even either.
@@faluffel European Union... But the USA has more cars and the USA is one country, one large country and the freeways are a major part of transportation.. Might as well throw in brother Mexico and sister Canada and the Caribbean cousins into the mix. Its unofficially one gigantic nation with folks crossing the borders.
The aluminium castings jumped out immediately. They almost certainly provide the side supports for the cooling matrix but I wonder if the meet across the front of the car and if so how are they joined. I know Polestar is now Chinese owned but it is division of Volvo and, having owned three different models, the Swedes design good functional vehicles with longevity and safety built in.
If you're not getting criticized, you're not making an impression. And we love you because you ARE impressive, Sandy. Thanks again for sharing your expertise. It IS a frunk, a hood, a trunk, a boot and a bonnet, and you are a man and a human being and a cool cat, all wrapped up in one sexy package! Even Gretchen thinks so!
If polestar is really like Volvo, they probably have one or two more fuse boxes hidden somewhere. The important ones, are never in the one that is easy to reach
@@ElDJReturn How could one possibly overthink that play on words. It's the most obvious play on the word "engineer" that could possibly be made. As an engineer, after 50 years, it gets a bit stale. So I thought I could at least add something slightly interesting to this effort.
@@TheEvilmooseofdoom You totally missed the point. Sure you can cherry-pick statistics if it's important to emphasize that killed pedestrians in USA increased from 13% in 2009 to 17% in 2018. But here in Scandinavia we have a traffic strategy called Vision Zero, which is aiming to reduce road deaths. There are several ways to protect pedestrians on the roads, and developing design standards on cars for pedestrian protection is one of them so why neglect it?
Where could I get a couple of extra fasteners online? While taking one off, it went flying to neverland. So only have (3) holding down the back trunk cover currently.
The reason why in Europe we have to take care of pedestrians, is because we have them, unlike the USA there are no pedestrians everyone drives everywhere even for for a 10 feel journy
Europeans walked more than United States residents (382 versus 140 km per person per year) and bicycled more (188 versus 40 km per person per year) in 2000
Pedestrian safety is not more important in Europe because "more people get hit by cars". It's considered more important because in Europe we care as much about people as America cares about corporate profits. For the same reason we also have vastly more strict food safety standards, drug safety standards, environmental standards, child safety standards and so on.
The biggest issue with the Polestar 2 seems to be the poor efficiency of the motors, gearbox, wheel bearings, and the efficiency definitely is harmed by the excess height the P2 has (likely from modifying the existing XC40 CMA platform into a BEV) plus it weighs 600lbs more than a Model 3 Performance. Also… I HATE plastic fasteners. Especially those ones with the little pin hole thing you demonstrated. If you push down too far the pin drops into the abyss never to be found again.
@@GA-wq8xq Tesla’s Chinese made cars are fine. The reason their paint is probably less durable on Fremont cars is the fact California is so freaking psychotic about chemicals. Tesla has to use some super special kind of water based paint to comply with CARB.
@@GA-wq8xq Sandy was very critical of the early model 3. He's only positive now because they've genuinely improved. He's still critical of the panel gaps.
