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Old 05-14-2008, 11:26 AM   #3 (permalink)
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Re: Tiny Smart car gets crash test kudos

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Originally Posted by CJ Thunder View Post
http://money.cnn.com/2008/05/14/auto...ion=2008051410


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Still says to not send the featherweight against the heavyweight.
In my opinion this car is potentially very dangerous regardless of what the crash results say and the last few sentences of this article along with its not so good results in "whiplash" go along with what I have been saying all along.

When going head on into a larger car the forces will be greater and combine this with the stiff structure of the Smart you will have those forces transferred to the driver instead of the larger crumple zones we are use to seeing on most larger cars currently produced. These forces IMO will be similar to what Dale Earnhardt experienced when he died. When he hit the wall his head snapped forward so fiercely that it resulted in his death.

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