New IIHS Crash Test - Most Cars Perform Poorly

[JUSTION337]

Hopefully the added structures needed to pass this test won't add too much weight in future generations of cars.

http://blog.caranddriver.com/iihs-ad...erform-poorly/

[audivwdave]

Yeah saw this. I guess Mercedes is all up in arms over it. I saw a video of a vw cc and it got pretty smashed. I havent seen the bmw video until now.

[KOOTER]

The oil companies live this shit.

[palmer]

^ you took 1.5 hours longer than I thought you would to post that.

Must have been too busy F5ing infowars, or whatever wack-ass site you get your "news" from.

[KOOTER]

^ you took 1.5 hours longer than I thought you would to post that.

Must have been too busy F5ing infowars, or whatever wack-ass site you get your "news" from.

Shouldnt you be our crying somewhere? Or is your self medicating actually working now?

[magilson]

People freak out that cars are designed and tested to performance standards under a very particular set of circumstances. I'm never really sure exactly why. I understand that it's rational for people to be mostly ignorant about everything around them. But this base level instinct to flip out at the slightest suggestion of that ignorance is something I can't understand. It certainly doesn't help anything at all. People fundamentally misunderstand engineering.

[palmer]

Or is your self medicating actually working now?

I'm not the one who needs medication.

[toasted]

This new test is bullshit. There is always going to be some shape you can hit that a car can't stand up to very well.

What the government needs to do instead of coming up with crazy new crash tests that will raise the cost of cars is REQUIRE drivers to take safe driving courses and pay fucking attention to what they are doing on the road.

No cell phone laws need to be made and inforced. The no texting law needs to be in forced. Do this shit first instead of coming up with more crash tests.

This new test fucking pisses me off, can you tell. I also like that Mercedes has stated they will not bother trying to pass this new test, they claim thier cars are safe enough already.

[OptimusGlen]

meanwhile the Volvo engineers are cheering.

[Sven7]

This new test is bullshit. There is always going to be some shape you can hit that a car can't stand up to very well.

What the government needs to do instead of coming up with crazy new crash tests that will raise the cost of cars is REQUIRE drivers to take safe driving courses and pay fucking attention to what they are doing on the road.

No cell phone laws need to be made and inforced. The no texting law needs to be in forced. Do this shit first instead of coming up with more crash tests.

This new test fucking pisses me off, can you tell. I also like that Mercedes has stated they will not bother trying to pass this new test, they claim thier cars are safe enough already.

I fully agree, but prescribing a quick fix instead of addressing the root issue is America's strong suit. Why face the problems? Just pass our inadequacy on to every consumer in the form of higher prices and lower fuel economy. But higher "safety"! Think of it as a consumer tax for sucking at driving.

[magilson]

Think of it as a consumer tax for sucking at driving.

Yes.

[SLK]

What are the odds someone is going to hit a non-deformable barrier at 40 mph on the 25% of the driver's side anyways? The only thing I can think of on the road that is like that, might be the large cement dividers, but most of those have those drums with water in them to defect or drastically slow the vehicle before hitting. Seems like a bullshit test to me.

[JUSTION337]

^from the article:

A 2009 IIHS study revealed that among cars with good ratings for frontal crash protection, small overlap collisions make up almost 25 percent of crashes resulting in serious or fatal injuries to front-seat occupants.

[SLK]

^ but why a non-deformable object? Most the objects most cars will hit are all going to be deformable.

[KOOTER]

Terror! terror! terror! We are all going to crash and die if we do not drive tanks! Every time they change the rules their buddies get richer and we get poorer.