dont expect much of a car,

but STILL stuck ia a traffic jam.

also you will NOT get the full force of a 75mph – 0mph deceleration at all, because the car bounces away from the wall – it is still moving after the collission. hence, the force is actually smaller.

notice that the engine did not intrude the cabin – although the cabin plastics dropped off, those are very light components – the real items that could cause damage were safely handled by the structure.

i would feel extremely safe in a smart as long as i buckled up.

Myself survived 3 major accidents. In 1 case, the car was a total loss. Now, I call this pure luck. Both cars do not have any airbags or side impact bars.

Plus, u may not have any injuries but it will show up after 2 days. Mine did, a broken rib and bruised knee and elbow. Think again b4 u boast.

Hell, even Princess Di did not survive an accident in her Merc S280 some 9 years ago.

btw "òmnícp". speed alone doesnt kill. by saying that, you are ignoring the hundreds of other factors that contribute to fatalities in an accident. govt's love to say that, because it helps them ignore the fact that they havent done a good enough job at driver education, road design..etc. etc. etc. "reduce speed limits, put up more speed traps, give lots of summons, generate some revenue and accident rates will drop..etc." does it work?

In the UK, they have more than 3,000 speed trap cameras on their roads (we probably only have 20 at any one time in the country, or less), yet their rate of accidents increase every year. so is speed alone the culprit?

“The car just too small. It the doesn’t have a crumple zone, which would absorb the energy during collusion. A car that have a crumple zone may look like a total wreck after a collusion, but the passenger inside it would survive.

A stronger car alone doesn’t save your life during collusion, you need a crumple zone, airbags, to delay the collusion timing which would reduce the impulsive force and save your life.”

I don't think this statement was right because all modern cars have crumple zone! Despite the front end of Smart ForTwo is short, but it does contain crumple zone. If it doesn't have any crumple zone, how could it score 4 stars in EuroNCAP? If the front end is a lot more longer and contain more crumple zone, it definetely can score 5 stars.

'Tridion' safety cage works. Because of it, Smart and the passenger inside can survive at a very high speed collision. And about the crumple zone, does anyone knows that Smart ForTwo exterior bumper & body panel is made of elastic plastic so that it won't easily break and maybe these plastic act as crumple zone too.

But the smarty smart really impressed me, its seriously a tough nut.

"The car just too small. It the doesn’t have a crumple zone, which would absorb the energy during collusion. A car that have a crumple zone may look like a total wreck after a collusion, but the passenger inside it would survive.

A stronger car alone doesn’t save your life during collusion, you need a crumple zone, airbags, to delay the collusion timing which would reduce the impulsive force and save your life."

Cars like Smart has its good and practical points. However, lagging a substantial front end reduces its ability to effectively absorb enough energy. Imagine what would happen to our lungs hitting the ribs or our brain hitting the skull at that speed. Our organs wouldn't be able to take the impact.

yupp Amir, you're just plain lucky, someone didn't make it at 80km/h in a same model as yours, happened in front of my eyes!! so don't be too sure or cocky dude

Bottom line;

1. don't drive into walls

2. advanced car body structures are to give you a *chance* of survival, not a guarantee

I guess the only moral we can really use from the story is drive safely even if there are safety features incorporated as nobody would want to go through the usage experience example in a car crash.

wooo hoo !

A stronger car alone doesn't save your life during collusion, you need a crumple zone, airbags, to delay the collusion timing which would reduce the impulsive force and save your life.

OZ gov says drop 5 save lives! and yes! its true… no matter how well the car is constructed, your body may not.