that’ll buff out for sure… good as new with fresh paint
omg
Making the entire car a crumple zone is the whole point.
If the structure does not absorb the energy from the impact then it is transferred to the occupants.
yeah but you still don’t want the cabin to crumple the way it did in that vid, that’s the occupants last defense from getting crushed.
Warning: You are now sitting in a now folding zone.
ULTRA FUCKED!!!
Thats why I like driving cars/trucks that are actually built to take a beating and keep on ticking
lol wtf
The big problem is, that is they still do make them like they used to. If you look at some older crash videos of trucks/vans/early-suvs the cab tends to fold up.
That said, definatly one of the last few vehicles I’d want to be in a head-on/solid wall collision with
If you look closely that was not a head on collision. It was a offset collision.
Im not sure what speed that was at but it makes a major difference.
Only the left half of the structure is absorbing the entire impact.
Many NHTSA tests are dont at 35mph but I cant say for sure on this one.
Either way the cabin didnt fold too bad. All that matters is the condition of the occupants. The vehicle can look like a crumpled piece of aluminum foil but it might have done its job by absorbing most of the crash energy.
That was a standard 35MPH Offset head-on collision. The F-150 scored the worst that year in crash testing.
The following also has pictures of a Tundra after the same test. The idea of crumple zones it to help reduce energy transmitted to the occupants, while keeping the passenger compartment fully intact to prevent injury. Not to also crush the area where the occupants are sitting in.
Ouch…
I can vouch for the F-150 being shitty in crashes
One thing those crash tests into an immovable, non-deforming object fail to take into account is the fact that if an F150 is in an offset crash with something head on, chances are it will be another car. Since the F150 will more than likely have much more mass than the vehicle it’s crashing into, it will dissipate more if the crash energy into the other vehicle.
In the case of the immovable non-deforming object, of course the big heavy truck doesn’t do too well. Force = mass x acceleration. A 5000lb truck going 35 mph into a cement block has a lot more energy than say a 3000 lb car going 35 mph.
In the real world, I’d much rather be in the F150 than a 5 star small car though. Much more likely to be hitting a deforming lesser mass object than a non-deforming immovable one. Of course, if you hit a cement barrier, or large tree, you’re fucked.
I’ll take this.
mmm Swedish goodness.
eh, that’s the American way of thinking but you’re wrong. I’d rather hit the truck in a car, because the truck as clearly demonstrated a lack of structural integrity… an immovable object at 35 is like hitting another vehicle at 65. Yes, inertia plays a role, but in this case, bigger is not better. Have you ever seen that picture where the H2 hit a small pickup? The hummer is destroyed, the pickup is slightly damaged…
But the H2 is bigger! OMG, why did it get damaged more…??? When you imagine yourself in a big truck plowing through a civic, you don’t understand a lot about physics…
ok
next person to say ‘it’ll buff right out’ in response to a totaled car is going to get shanked with a highly modified toilet brush