I-65. Indiana. Pouring rain. Dusk. I saw a Smart happily zipping along at 75 MPH, weaving around the semis just like everyone else does.Common is not the same as known. I saw a Dodge Ram 2500HD outside of Stuttgart, but it doesn't mean that said truck is in it's normal environment.
That said, I see Smarts on highway 401 (not as often as just about anything else, but they're there) in Ontario, and these are the previous-gen diesel models that take nearly sixteen seconds to hit 100km/h. Again, I don't see them often, perhaps about as much as motorcycles, and I'd much rather be in the Smart than on a bike or an older Honda Civic.
psharjinian: In a Tahoe? Anyone under four feet tall is in trouble once you start reversing.
So is anyone under three feet tall (i.e., a small child) once the driver starts reversing in a Smart car.
psharjinian: The point being: running a smart in a concrete block or another vehicle at 70mph with no attempt at braking is a nonsensical test, just as trying to park a Tahoe a space designed from a Clio is. You’re deliberately rigging a test for psycological impact, not for useful results.
Head-on collisions with objects, regardless of the final speed, are far more likely to have a fatal outcome than parallel parking.
This is why the government agencies and insurance company associations conduct tests of how a vehicle performs in a head-on collision.
Axel:
"Didn’t see if the driver was chain smoking while eating solid lard, shooting up with dirty needles, and insulting Mafia dons on his cell phone, but I wouldn’t have been surprised."
That's the funniest way of saying "Death Wish" for sure!
We learned that walnuts are the safest nuts... IN THE WUUHHHLD!
What I really gathered from the clip was to illustrate "vehicle incompatibility" issues. Yes the car is strong and safe, providing you crash it into what its designed to protect you from. This is a city car and will for sure stand up to city driving. But jackassing on the highway is going to get you killed! There just isn't enough to absorb the impact, and keep the impact away from the cabin of that car.
Moral of the story, keep the city cars in the city.
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Axel: "Didn’t see if the driver was chain smoking while eating solid lard, shooting up with dirty needles, and insulting Mafia dons on his cell phone, but I wouldn’t have been surprised." That's the funniest way of saying "Death Wish" for sure!
We learned that walnuts are the safest nuts... IN THE WUUHHHLD! What I really gathered from the clip was to illustrate "vehicle incompatibility" issues. Yes the car is strong and safe, providing you crash it into what its designed to protect you from. This is a city car and will for sure stand up to city driving. But jackassing on the highway is going to get you killed! There just isn't enough to absorb the impact, and keep the impact away from the cabin of that car. Moral of the story, keep the city cars in the city.