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So all the tree huggers Still Want A SMART Car?

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Ed_McCarron:

--- Quote from: HarumaN on August 31, 2009, 02:01:51 pm ---
--- Quote ---The main structure of the car is a stiff structure called a Tridion Safety Cell, which is designed to activate the crumple zones of a colliding vehicle. This design creates a very strong safety cell around the passengers.
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So basically, it's designed to cause the other vehicle to crumple.  Which is fine...  but what if you hit a smrt car with a smrt car?   ;D

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They don't.  The cars are so small its physically impossible to hit one with the other.   :lol

ChadTower:

Maneuverability doesn't mean a whole lot when you are driving reasonably and get slammed into by an idiot running a stop sign going 45 in a 30 texting her bff about how much of a jerk her bf was during third period study hall.

orion:

--- Quote from: Ed_McCarron on August 31, 2009, 02:11:04 pm ---
--- Quote from: HarumaN on August 31, 2009, 02:01:51 pm ---
--- Quote ---The main structure of the car is a stiff structure called a Tridion Safety Cell, which is designed to activate the crumple zones of a colliding vehicle. This design creates a very strong safety cell around the passengers.
--- End quote ---

So basically, it's designed to cause the other vehicle to crumple.  Which is fine...  but what if you hit a smrt car with a smrt car?   ;D

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They don't.  The cars are so small its physically impossible to hit one with the other.   :lol

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What if both cars were being driven by NASA engineers, and one guy started of in LA and the other from NYC?

patrickl:

--- Quote from: Fordman on August 25, 2009, 09:15:51 pm ---I'll Take my F-150 any day!

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Unless you are driving a recent version (post 2004), driving an F150 is not a very wise choice. That's a truck and the manufacturer didn't even have to worry about safety feature that are standard on cars which are designed to move people.

Look at how it folds up a crash test:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lB0araA0T_k[/youtube]

Typical accident with trucks like that is a roll:


You're just as unsafe in a few year old F150 as in a Smart car. In fact I'd bet the F150 is less safe (both for you as the driver as for other people around you). Better get a proper sedan.

patrickl:
Here is how an F150 deals with 2 trucks:


Crash in Huntley kills 1, closes Route 47

Smart cars are pretty tough. Here it flipped a Mercedes M class

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