I just saw this thing on YouTube. interesting results!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G17ej95Pj00

i would have thought it would be safer.

 

none of you are worried about this?

 

Nope. As a firefighter/EMT, I have seen very few crashes of that level of destruction. You'd pretty much have to hit a very substantial building just like they did to get those results.

In a real crash you usually have two or more cars that glance off of each other. Then they spin, slide, etc, distributing the force over many smaller impacts.

While those tests are valid, they really don't relate to real world crashes. Very seldom are you secured to a track that runs you perfectly into a very solid wall, expending all of the crash energy in one impact.

Mike

 

Agreed^

Put a dodge or chevy under those same conditions and lets see that vid. If you look at the vid, the driveshaft got bent...imagine how fast you'd have to be traveling, and strike an immovable object, just right, and bend the driveshaft.

 

I dont think the crash test dummie made it out of that one lol !

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4SvSd5L9hA&NR

looks like the Dakota did slightly better, assuming it was the same test/speed.

I agree though, that's a serious wreck. Even just slamming on the brakes and having it nose-dive would change the outcome, even if impact speed were the same. For better or worse I don't know, but that seems a more likely scenario. Unless the driver fell asleep that is.

Even if it didn't crumple that bad, that would just mean more energy was tranferred directly to your body. Still not very confidence inpiring...

A bad situation either way, bodies just aren't meant to stop that fast.

My F150 is the same as that one. Got a Dak too, but it's an ext. cab. I'm just gonna hope that it never happens in either of them.

Seems the Chevy did the best out of the full size: http://www.iihs.org/ratings/rating.aspx?id=4

Dodge did about the same as Ford: http://www.iihs.org/ratings/rating.aspx?id=6

http://www.iihs.org/ratings/rating.aspx?id=7

Edit: it seems all of those, including the vids, were at 40 MPH...

 

all those pickups are just awful in a wreck. I saw a smart-car hit a wall at 70mph that came out better than those things from ONLY 40mph!! look up "smart car crash" on you tube.

 

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...mart+car+crash

 

lmao

"Major collapse of the occupant compartment left little survival space for the driver."

 

an old jeep grand cherokee took it like a pro

 

Yay!

So the car is ok. There is still a good change that you'd be dead. You see in every crash there are actually 3 crashes. The initial crash, you body crashing into a seat belt, dashboard, steering wheel, etc, and then your organs crashing into the inside of your body.

So even if the car looks ok, everything may not be so. For example, your heart (which is pretty much only held in place by the aortic arch) may sever that artery and you're dead.

Crash tests do nothing but compare different vehicles on a similar test. They have very little real world relevance. But I see that you're stuck on them, so whatever. I guess the F150 sucks at the offset frontal crash test. Who cares?

Mike

 

because I used to drive a lincoln navigator, which would probably fare similiar to the f150 and it really disturbs me.

 

Based on real life experience, it probably wouldn't have. Like I've said time and time again, crash tests do not relate to real life well.

Mike

 

Yeah, these trucks, especially the 97-03 were terrible at this. Look up the toyota tundra results, the cab portion stays basically intack. You want the rest of the truck to crumple up, but not the part that you're in! Thats why they have those commercials claiming how safe the new f150 was, they obviously knew it was a problem with those to make such a big deal out of it with the new ones.

 

considering my truck weighs more than most cars on the road and i dont have much of a chance of hitting a solid wall without hitting the brakes i couldnt care less about these crash tests they should crash different sized cars together and see what happens...

-Rich