[quote=AN][quote=SDEngineer]
Not exactly x2. p=mv. A smaller car, being lighter, has much less momentum than a larger, heavier car, which means the collision energy with a stationary object is much lower, hence, they don’t need to absorb as much energy to provide driver protection in a collision. It doesn’t completely offset, but it’s not as cut and dried as you make it seem here.
It’s when you get into collisions with two moving objects that relative mass really puts the small car at a disadvantage. [/quote]
I totally agree. Hitting a stationary object vs a moving object yield very different result. The question then is, what are more common? Hitting another moving vehicle or hitting a wall? I would pick the former.[/quote]
Ah, I stand corrected. That probably explans the B- in physics freshman year. I think actually neither scenarios are common. What I want to know is what sort of damage happens at cross angle (right front to left driver) from the passenger side. I think this more typical of an accident, as drivers would normally serve to try to avoid an obstacle (hence also, the reference to why the front passenger seat is often cited as the the death seat)… It’s not exactly I have two vehicles we could test this out on. AN, you want to donate your G35? 🙂
