OT: Big Car Versus Small Car: IIHS confirms the law of physics.

[Coronita]

[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? 🙂

[EJ]

IMHO … there should be a more strict driving test if you want to drive a car over a certain weight.

Just like the truckers … if you want to be safe in your “tank” demonstrate your driving skills.
– Too many tickets and you are back in your civic.
– One head-on accident in your “tank”, banned for life
– Not related to safety, but a very difficult parking test for large vehicles would be my personal favorite.

If you want to be safe: drive defensive, expect the unexpected, don’t tailgate.

I guess the other option is buy a huge car and drive however you want. That seems to be the prevailing attitude currently, at least while gas is cheap.

[EJ]

IMHO … there should be a more strict driving test if you want to drive a car over a certain weight.

Just like the truckers … if you want to be safe in your “tank” demonstrate your driving skills.
– Too many tickets and you are back in your civic.
– One head-on accident in your “tank”, banned for life
– Not related to safety, but a very difficult parking test for large vehicles would be my personal favorite.

If you want to be safe: drive defensive, expect the unexpected, don’t tailgate.

I guess the other option is buy a huge car and drive however you want. That seems to be the prevailing attitude currently, at least while gas is cheap.

[EJ]

IMHO … there should be a more strict driving test if you want to drive a car over a certain weight.

Just like the truckers … if you want to be safe in your “tank” demonstrate your driving skills.
– Too many tickets and you are back in your civic.
– One head-on accident in your “tank”, banned for life
– Not related to safety, but a very difficult parking test for large vehicles would be my personal favorite.

If you want to be safe: drive defensive, expect the unexpected, don’t tailgate.

I guess the other option is buy a huge car and drive however you want. That seems to be the prevailing attitude currently, at least while gas is cheap.

[EJ]

IMHO … there should be a more strict driving test if you want to drive a car over a certain weight.

Just like the truckers … if you want to be safe in your “tank” demonstrate your driving skills.
– Too many tickets and you are back in your civic.
– One head-on accident in your “tank”, banned for life
– Not related to safety, but a very difficult parking test for large vehicles would be my personal favorite.

If you want to be safe: drive defensive, expect the unexpected, don’t tailgate.

I guess the other option is buy a huge car and drive however you want. That seems to be the prevailing attitude currently, at least while gas is cheap.

[EJ]

IMHO … there should be a more strict driving test if you want to drive a car over a certain weight.

Just like the truckers … if you want to be safe in your “tank” demonstrate your driving skills.
– Too many tickets and you are back in your civic.
– One head-on accident in your “tank”, banned for life
– Not related to safety, but a very difficult parking test for large vehicles would be my personal favorite.

If you want to be safe: drive defensive, expect the unexpected, don’t tailgate.

I guess the other option is buy a huge car and drive however you want. That seems to be the prevailing attitude currently, at least while gas is cheap.

[Coronita]

[quote=EJ]IMHO … there should be a more strict driving test if you want to drive a car over a certain weight.

Just like the truckers … if you want to be safe in your “tank” demonstrate your driving skills.
– Too many tickets and you are back in your civic.
– One head-on accident in your “tank”, banned for life
– Not related to safety, but a very difficult parking test for large vehicles would be my personal favorite.

If you want to be safe: drive defensive, expect the unexpected, don’t tailgate.

I guess the other option is buy a huge car and drive however you want. That seems to be the prevailing attitude currently, at least while gas is cheap.[/quote]

Actually, when SUV’s first became popular, I was one of those folks thinking that the states should have another class of license for those vehicles (Class C+ or something like that for light truck/van/etc). The driving dynamics of those things were completely different from passenger cars. Unfortunately, the auto bureaucrats wouldn’t ever approve of something like this. Instead, now, we see auto manufacturers watering down the SUV’s to build them on unibody, more passenger-car-like body frames. I guess very few people really take their vehicles off road, especially those soccer parents.

As far as the parking test is concerned, I think it’s less of the actual parking tests, more of a literacy tests for drivers, followed up with bigtime parking tickets. “Compact parking” does not mean SUV/CUV.

[Coronita]

[quote=EJ]IMHO … there should be a more strict driving test if you want to drive a car over a certain weight.

Just like the truckers … if you want to be safe in your “tank” demonstrate your driving skills.
– Too many tickets and you are back in your civic.
– One head-on accident in your “tank”, banned for life
– Not related to safety, but a very difficult parking test for large vehicles would be my personal favorite.

If you want to be safe: drive defensive, expect the unexpected, don’t tailgate.

I guess the other option is buy a huge car and drive however you want. That seems to be the prevailing attitude currently, at least while gas is cheap.[/quote]

Actually, when SUV’s first became popular, I was one of those folks thinking that the states should have another class of license for those vehicles (Class C+ or something like that for light truck/van/etc). The driving dynamics of those things were completely different from passenger cars. Unfortunately, the auto bureaucrats wouldn’t ever approve of something like this. Instead, now, we see auto manufacturers watering down the SUV’s to build them on unibody, more passenger-car-like body frames. I guess very few people really take their vehicles off road, especially those soccer parents.

As far as the parking test is concerned, I think it’s less of the actual parking tests, more of a literacy tests for drivers, followed up with bigtime parking tickets. “Compact parking” does not mean SUV/CUV.

[Coronita]

[quote=EJ]IMHO … there should be a more strict driving test if you want to drive a car over a certain weight.

Just like the truckers … if you want to be safe in your “tank” demonstrate your driving skills.
– Too many tickets and you are back in your civic.
– One head-on accident in your “tank”, banned for life
– Not related to safety, but a very difficult parking test for large vehicles would be my personal favorite.

If you want to be safe: drive defensive, expect the unexpected, don’t tailgate.

I guess the other option is buy a huge car and drive however you want. That seems to be the prevailing attitude currently, at least while gas is cheap.[/quote]

Actually, when SUV’s first became popular, I was one of those folks thinking that the states should have another class of license for those vehicles (Class C+ or something like that for light truck/van/etc). The driving dynamics of those things were completely different from passenger cars. Unfortunately, the auto bureaucrats wouldn’t ever approve of something like this. Instead, now, we see auto manufacturers watering down the SUV’s to build them on unibody, more passenger-car-like body frames. I guess very few people really take their vehicles off road, especially those soccer parents.

As far as the parking test is concerned, I think it’s less of the actual parking tests, more of a literacy tests for drivers, followed up with bigtime parking tickets. “Compact parking” does not mean SUV/CUV.

[Coronita]

[quote=EJ]IMHO … there should be a more strict driving test if you want to drive a car over a certain weight.

Just like the truckers … if you want to be safe in your “tank” demonstrate your driving skills.
– Too many tickets and you are back in your civic.
– One head-on accident in your “tank”, banned for life
– Not related to safety, but a very difficult parking test for large vehicles would be my personal favorite.

If you want to be safe: drive defensive, expect the unexpected, don’t tailgate.

I guess the other option is buy a huge car and drive however you want. That seems to be the prevailing attitude currently, at least while gas is cheap.[/quote]

Actually, when SUV’s first became popular, I was one of those folks thinking that the states should have another class of license for those vehicles (Class C+ or something like that for light truck/van/etc). The driving dynamics of those things were completely different from passenger cars. Unfortunately, the auto bureaucrats wouldn’t ever approve of something like this. Instead, now, we see auto manufacturers watering down the SUV’s to build them on unibody, more passenger-car-like body frames. I guess very few people really take their vehicles off road, especially those soccer parents.

As far as the parking test is concerned, I think it’s less of the actual parking tests, more of a literacy tests for drivers, followed up with bigtime parking tickets. “Compact parking” does not mean SUV/CUV.

[Coronita]

[quote=EJ]IMHO … there should be a more strict driving test if you want to drive a car over a certain weight.

Just like the truckers … if you want to be safe in your “tank” demonstrate your driving skills.
– Too many tickets and you are back in your civic.
– One head-on accident in your “tank”, banned for life
– Not related to safety, but a very difficult parking test for large vehicles would be my personal favorite.

If you want to be safe: drive defensive, expect the unexpected, don’t tailgate.

I guess the other option is buy a huge car and drive however you want. That seems to be the prevailing attitude currently, at least while gas is cheap.[/quote]

Actually, when SUV’s first became popular, I was one of those folks thinking that the states should have another class of license for those vehicles (Class C+ or something like that for light truck/van/etc). The driving dynamics of those things were completely different from passenger cars. Unfortunately, the auto bureaucrats wouldn’t ever approve of something like this. Instead, now, we see auto manufacturers watering down the SUV’s to build them on unibody, more passenger-car-like body frames. I guess very few people really take their vehicles off road, especially those soccer parents.

As far as the parking test is concerned, I think it’s less of the actual parking tests, more of a literacy tests for drivers, followed up with bigtime parking tickets. “Compact parking” does not mean SUV/CUV.

[Aecetia]

1969 GTO Body Weight
Body Weight (lbs)
Hardtop 3503
Convertible 3553

Yaris (2300 pounds

[Aecetia]

1969 GTO Body Weight
Body Weight (lbs)
Hardtop 3503
Convertible 3553

Yaris (2300 pounds

[Aecetia]

1969 GTO Body Weight
Body Weight (lbs)
Hardtop 3503
Convertible 3553

Yaris (2300 pounds

[Aecetia]

1969 GTO Body Weight
Body Weight (lbs)
Hardtop 3503
Convertible 3553

Yaris (2300 pounds

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