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Having been a paramedic I'll tell you this right now just being able to open the doors will save you 20 to 30 minutes on that golden hour when trying to extract. That's one little amazing car when it comes to safety
It is easy to total it since they are Mercedes. But I can always count on a good door! I totalled mine going from 30 to 0 in one second. Parked car, totally my fault. Still drove the few blocks home before it was declared a total loss.
A friend of mine crashed headon with a Smart 3 months ago and she got lucky that she hit an incoming Renault 19 which has a very deformable front.The crash has been with around 50km/h for the smart and 30-40km/h for the Renault (impact speeds in the final police report wiaht a speed limit 80km/h in the area).The Renault front was melted down to the windshield with driver and front passenger getting out intact.The smart had all plastics on the front smashed but the steel structure specially the beam in front of the radiator was almost intact (even the radiator was in one piece without a leak) there was a small visibile defomation on the driver side roof beam.She sustained damage to her left lung and her right hand got wounded.The lung from the seatbelt and the very rapid stop of the smart itself sustained trauma and the hand from some flying plastics from the dashboard.So at the end yes the smart has a very rigid body but in the mean time it is very dangerous cause in a case of a crash the car shell is not dissipating any energy which means that the passangers are sustaining much higher forces which can result to a deadly internal organs damage.She spend a month in a hospital and she is almost OK now but no more small cars.They are really dangerous at speeds exceeding 50km/h.
+ukrasa Thank you. This is exactly what interests me: the so called second and third impacts. I'm disappointed that Fifth Gear just briefly touched on the subject, as this is what really separates these compact cars from the larger models.
+pesshau Agreed, but on the upside, atleast the smart won't accordion into nothing and crush, mangle your body into ground beef like everyone loves to say about it. Dangerous, still yes, but not in the way people love to believe.
This is why my 17 year old son drives a Ford SMax, even has a knee airbag. I know he’s a good driver for his age but I’d rather he be in something with more crumple zones
+⚛ U Wot M8 ⚛ What if you want to buy a car for your daughter that if she drives it 70mph into a concrete barrier and doesn't survive you'll be able to open and close the door to get her corpse out and retrieve something from the glovebox without the need for any tools.
Glad to hear the follow up to that. Was going to mention that, although the Smart car held up, I highly doubt the g forces would allow any passengers to survive. Good video
Mikey Lovejoy Jr. People who say this are usually chicken shits or terrible drivers. Any car at 70mph toward a concrete barrier is going to kill most passengers, truck, suv, etc. So don't drive into one...
the shell survived, but the interior of the smart literally exploded. did you see those shards of plastic everwhere? i would not want to crash that at any speed XD
The colored body panels on the smart are actually a composite material and are designed to be removable and replaceable without a whole lot of work. They shatter in a major crash but metal panels would also be just as destroyed in the end on any car.
Bodywork of all vehicles - and especially the smart car - are designed to deform, fly apart and break on impact. The more the outside of the car falls apart on impact the more impact energy is taken away from the driver and passengers inside the car. That's why F1 crashes always look so terrible - almost the entire vehicle is designed to completely disintegrate upon impact leaving only the survival monocoque intact and undamaged.
2:00 The Smart Car being in "one piece" doesn't mean much. At one point stack car racers were getting killed in crashes that hardly hurt the car. It was realized it was the strength of the car doing the killing. The cars were so tough that the drivers were experiencing accelerations higher that their bodies could survive. That is why race cars these days fly apart when the crash. All that crumpling is lowering the accelerations on the people in the car.
Infuriating.You need two things to be limited to survive.No.1 A strong cabin that will not allow your body to be hit/impaled/cut etc by anything.The smart car does well here.BUT...You also need to limit the tremendous kinetic energy (deceleration g's) that will tear your insides to pieces.The smart car is appalling here. There is virtually nothing to absorb/limit that energy.So what if the door still works and you're dead because your organs are noting but a blob of jell/liquid and your brain is, well, you get the point...Do they think everyone is really that stupid?Idiots...
Setting aside your uncalled for personal insult, what does "Isn't even meant to be driven on the highway" even mean? Where does the manufacturer make that claim? They don't. It IS legal for highway use and they can be seen doing so all the time. You admit it cannot deal with high speed impacts, so it would appear you agree but cannot bring yourself to do so for whatever reason. Again, they ARE LEGAL for highway use and the manufacturer and all government agencies allow their continued use on highways. If you believe they cannot deal with highway speeds, do you not agree, people should: 1: Be made clearly aware of this limitation and 2: They should be legally restricted from doing so? The video implies it is a safe vehicle on impact at high speed but is severely flawed in its testing criteria. People could well be killed believing, falsely, they are safe at speed when they are clearly not so. THAT is infuriating...
+Loppysaurus rex Where did I say it "wasn't made for the city?" Where did I say that? Please point that out to me?If the manufacturer approves it for highway use then people will OBVIOUSLY believe it must be safe to do so. Why can't you grasp that.My whole point was the measure they used in the video is DANGEROUSLY misleading.The ability of a cars structure to retain its shape in a collision is only one of two criteria required to survive an impact.The "smart car" (Whatever that means) fails miserably in its ability to absorb kinetic energy and therefore dissipate lethal acceleration forces.And who cares about cars from the 90's? You might as well comparet cars from the 1920's.It is dangerous when journalists create these videos without consulting engineers familiar with all aspects of inertial forces and there effects on the human body.
On the other hand, the Smart does a reasonable amount of crumpling before the energy hits the Tridion. And if it was a Fiat Seicento/Renault Twingo/other 90s city car, the cabin would have been literally squished, which is even worse.
One thing your forgetting...G force or kinetic force will kill faster than the actual crash. so this is really bull but i suppose they dont have to go looking for the bits afterwards if you catch my drift.
So would you survive that deceleration? You see, the Smart (and other very short cars) have something important playing against them in safety, and that is deformation distance available in a crash. Basically the hood length and how it is built. The kinetic energy of the vehicle has to dissipate, and a longer hood/trunk (coupled with a good design /controlled deformation) will save lives. When you drive at speed v with a car of mass m, your kinetik energy is roughly E=1/2m*v^2. When you crash (against a fixed object) your body experiences a force F that can be calculated by matching the previous equation with and integrating F*dx over time. So what really matters here is 1) the longer it takes to come to a full stop and 2) the longer the displacement x absorbed by the car’s body and not yours (or dx integrated over time), the safer you tend to be. That’s of course assuming the engine block doesn’t jam into you and you have volume left in the cabin. If you crash against another car, the kinetic energy of both cars are added. Highway 17 in CA used to be one of the most dangerous highways until they added the median. It’s a bit of a disservice to tell folks wow check this out, the Smart comes out intact… ‘cause you know, your brain might well make a splash on the windshield without your head needing to hit it. Sorry that was graphic. Be safe y’all.
uasuka In the bottom lane? People always generally 55-65 in that lane, 70 in the middle lane and for some reason, 80 or 90 in the top lane, even thought it's for over taking at a max of 70.
Would be nice if street cars were built with the same safety standards as auto racing cars like NASCAR, Le Mans, and Super GT. The mount of fatalities would drop drastically.
So what if you found a way to pair the large size/large crumple zones of the Mercedes(for example) with the ultra-rigid passenger compartment of the Smart? Would that not be the best safety system ever? A safe zone combining large car and Smart car advantages in a super safe crossbreed vehicle.
It is easier to reinforce something that is small. Think it like this : At that size, this car have some big bones to protect. For something like mercedes, even the doors should be double the thickness.
There's nothing scientific with test. It's not because the steel cage is relatively fine that the passengers would be fine. In my opinion the passengers in the smart would be greatly injured or dead.
I crashed at 70mph hitting a steel bridge .... no belt on and i walked out without a scratch .... i was driving a mercedes c class ..... the crumple zone stayed completely infact ..... i feel very lucky indeed.
Just because the cockpit survived doesn't mean your internal organs weren't dislodged and smashed from the impact. The Smart car does not absorb impact which only mean you are left with a good looking corpse.
The G forces transferred to passengers, in combination with a demolishing of the footwell area, makes this a VERY unSmart car for humans to have best chance of survival in.
The smart is Not at all a save car. Even though the drivers cabin stays completely solid. The force wich the driver experiences are the same like in any other car, that means the extreme hard cabin stays hard but there is still no way to slow the forces down, what normally the crunching motorblock does. Sorry for my bad English
4:58 ITS NOT 4:58 the smart car is a 2 door which aren’t safe usually and it being so small but for a car like that being safe it’s got a good lead in the future
It's better to have a frame that crumbles (and provide more time of impact), than have a rigid frame and provide a smaller time of impact, basic physics. Either you have a big force and short time, or long time and small force, either way the impulse will be the given the change in momentum. You don't want a big force, you want a small force over a long time, which is why you don't want a rigid frame. At the same time you don't want to be crushed to death, so you wanna distribute the crumbling of the frame in such way that your body doesn't get crush, so the front of the car, bottom of the car and sides. Basically even if you don't die from being crushed, you can die from the force. Force = mass times acceleration, the bigger the force, the bigger the acceleration, and by acceleration I mean "deceleration" (negative acceleration), the bigger the acceleration, the more chances your neck breaks, ribs, head trauma, etc.
I wish they said the main truth about smart cars in the start of the video. Sure, the frame can take a beating, but as a passenger it wouldn't be very fun experiencing the forces of a car that bounces backward in a collision.
I still don't want these cars and your legs will be obliterated by any kind of impact, but I have to say I'm actually impressed on how the car itself stood up
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I like smart to crashing in one or speeding in one seems so dangerous tho seeing hit at 70km/h to 0. Maybe if deaccelerating a bit slower a little bit make a difference. I still rather get a yaris.
Hasn't there been research done on the correlation between how high the rear wheels leave the ground during an accident and the amount of vibrating Force done on the occupants lower spines.
So the passengers would still die? I could easily see that during each test. The car would be totaled and the passengers would be dead but the steel cage would be relatively intact? Wow. Score. Impressive.
Why do they never do these tests into the bonet of a 45T Scania coming the other way at 56mph? Oh ya because you would see anything short of a tank get turned into a pile of twisted metal as the truck pushed the reckage 50m back up the road.
Is there a reason for the concrete block to be not perpendicular to the car direction ? I guess it would have destroyed it even more if being set like that.
The car's fine for city driving, but once you get it on a freeway the story changes. This car shouldn't be recommended for areas where cars go above a certain speed.
the snart is suprisinly tanky. i know because my train pushed one along the track for over 500 meters and insaw it spring of into the ditch. Driver sustained only minor innuries. car was totalled.
