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Title: Merc S Class vs. Smart
Post by: Nickbat on 09 June 2011, 21:16:14
Wouldn't want to be the dummy in the Smart. ;)

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02eghIfyHP0[/media]

 :o
Title: Re: Merc S Class vs. Smart
Post by: cem_devecioglu on 09 June 2011, 22:52:14
momentum transfer rules.. object with lighter mass will have more speed after collision..
Title: Re: Merc S Class vs. Smart
Post by: Banjax on 09 June 2011, 23:06:25
a video of crumple zones doing their job? surprising how tough the little smarts are - they look like tin too  :o

a bigger concern is chelsea tractors with agriculturally designed steel beams acting like battering rams at head height to anyone in a car - old rangies and landies, not the soft roaders you see nowadays  :o

do they ever show you what happens with bike vs s-class, cos bikers always say they'll get thrown clear to safety in the event....i'd like to see the ragdoll physics of it....just for fun you understand  ;)
Title: Re: Merc S Class vs. Smart
Post by: Turk on 09 June 2011, 23:46:35
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a video of crumple zones doing their job? surprising how tough the little smarts are - they look like tin too  :o

a bigger concern is chelsea tractors with agriculturally designed steel beams acting like battering rams at head height to anyone in a car - old rangies and landies, not the soft roaders you see nowadays  :o

do they ever show you what happens with bike vs s-class, cos bikers always say they'll get thrown clear to safety in the event....i'd like to see the ragdoll physics of it....just for fun you understand  ;)
:-? First time I've heard that statement.
Title: Re: Merc S Class vs. Smart
Post by: Kevin Wood on 09 June 2011, 23:57:23
I reckon I'd fare better in my Westfield. ;D

The Smart may have held together but after being punted up the road like that it's a sure thing the driver's internal organs would have been rearranged. :o

Needs some crumple zones but it's hard when your knees are up against the back of the number plate. ;D
Title: Re: Merc S Class vs. Smart
Post by: Lazydocker on 10 June 2011, 01:49:58
I've seen a Smart after a high speed, head on colision and to give credit where it's due the driver walked away with cuts and bruises :o Very dazed though  ::)

The "safety cell" does do it's job as all the other panels were crumpled against it and you'd never have recognised it as a Smart  ::)
Title: Re: Merc S Class vs. Smart
Post by: Banjax on 10 June 2011, 09:02:59
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I reckon I'd fare better in my Westfield. ;D

The Smart may have held together but after being punted up the road like that it's a sure thing the driver's internal organs would have been rearranged. :o

Needs some crumple zones but it's hard when your knees are up against the back of the number plate. ;D

anyone have an S-Class, a camera and access to an abandoned runway next Tuesday?  ;D :y
Title: Re: Merc S Class vs. Smart
Post by: Banjax on 10 June 2011, 09:04:43
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a video of crumple zones doing their job? surprising how tough the little smarts are - they look like tin too  :o

a bigger concern is chelsea tractors with agriculturally designed steel beams acting like battering rams at head height to anyone in a car - old rangies and landies, not the soft roaders you see nowadays  :o

do they ever show you what happens with bike vs s-class, cos bikers always say they'll get thrown clear to safety in the event....i'd like to see the ragdoll physics of it....just for fun you understand  ;)
:-? First time I've heard that statement.

it may just have been one guy in a pub in the 80's, but i've assumed they all think the same....saves time  ;)