They don't want to show you the crash because you'll see that the S class had almost 2 feet longer to decelerate than the Smart did. Meaning the occupants in the S class would've had a far less "splat" stop.
It's the instant high G-force that kills you, S class has a big nose, which bends intentionally to absorb all the forces, smart car may look "ok" after the crash but having a small and stiff metal body that doesnt bend puts a lot of forces on the driver so you'll end up with a lot of internal bleedings after the crash and die
What you don't realize is that the smart would also be slowed down by the crumple zone of the S class, so what you said is not true in this case, however, if hitting a concrete wall you would be right. Also, the change in speed would be greater in the smart since it weights less.
Let's hear about the G-Forces involved. In at least one test (found on RUclips) of a Smart Car hitting a concrete barrier at 50mph, the doors stayed shut etc., but the G-Forces were unsurvivable by a human
highest momentarily G-Force any human experienced ever was ~214G. I belive you won't be aple to go close to this with Smart Car, as it was achived by IndyCar Series 2003 Kenny Bräck's Crash
@@qayray please consider that this video is a Daimler ad, so its probably biased towards their cars, also they never specify the actual g-forces(or spike) experienced by the occupants.
+Urban Chaos 2.0 the smart may be more rigid and look a lot better than the mercedes, but rigid structures make harder impacts, the looks doesn't matter too much, but yeah i think the mercedes has a better chance to survive
Pretty interesting. We didn’t see one piece of evidence that this “amazing safety standard” smart car held up well for any occupants. Mostly just people walking around smh
@ Branden van der Merwe they are pretty safe, I know people who have survived quite dangerous crashes against larger cars. They’re just a niche product.
RUclips Admin That smart not only lost it's forward momentum when it impacted the merc (which weighs more than 2X as much), it probably gained some backwards momentum as well. Sure, the passenger compartment held up, it will be easier to remove the corpses that experienced well over deadly G-force.
The didn't even show the end result of the crash test for either car! All we see is the cars starting to hit, then flash camera to the wrecked cars sitting in the distance. Why hide the full length of the car crash unless it wasn't as "good" as you make it believe. Be Smart.....don't drive a Smart.
Thats a thing your cabin did not collide, but the G forces will be much higher ,than in a regular car. In a smart there is basicly a 40cm collapse zone, but in a "real" car there are much more space to collapse, so the G forces will be lower. So the Smarts are not "very very safe", they are just okay.
Groupcraft65 you are completely missing the point , the car might maintain its shape , but the driver wont Any crash needs to be cushioned or the vehicle occupants suffer multiple crashes , notice how the dummy head goes straight to the car pillar bypassing the airbags ( uncut video ) ruclips.net/video/sKSPxQjPOm0/видео.html
The s class was still going forward when the smart already went backwards! Maybe the passenger cell is intact but your guts would fly out on your mouth in a smart
@@lunakon5911 Long after you die your account will still exist and people will respond to your comments and you won't answer and they will think "why don't they respond ?".
Yeah but the slow-mo shows the smart instantly stopping whereas the S class slows a much smoother way. This means that the crash is more violent in the Smart: a greater force is exerted on the passengers in order to slow them fast. The longer the hood, the softer the deceleration...
Would like to know the impact speed and occupant g-forces experienced. At 0:50 the Smart stops moving, whilst the S class is still travelling, so Smart will have experienced greater g to stop. I have no doubt it can pass the safety tests, but I still know which I'd rather be in when the worst happens.
This film hides the truth! Shows the action just till the Smart looses its speed. But doesn't shows the most important, after the crash, Smart flies back, the S class continues its way in original direction! S class looses cca -25, 30 km/h of its speed, Smart looses -75-80! That is the difference! Never forget, cars knows much better the fizik, than we! I=m x v
Totally agree... Plus Mercedes Benz vehicles are designed so that the crumple zones help the passengers in the other car survive too. So one of the reasons the smart fared so well is because it was crashed into an S class. If this were two Smart Cars colliding, the results would be far far worse.
SIMcityplayer2002 actually A smart is a Mercedes with another badge on it, simply because putting the Mercedes badge on it would be humiliation for Mercedes, plus they had to put a bigger price tag on it.
Another truth is that while the passenger compartment of the smart car stays intact the passengers experience much higher g forces in a crash. Not really the cars fault, there's just not as much room for crumple zones in something that small.
"The forces on the occupants were significantly less than the bio-mechanical limits." Oh wow you've sold me! My head will still be intact, it just won't work anymore? I guess it's a smart car if safety is not your priority.
You don't even need to see how it ended - it's not that they can't make a car that will stay "intact" after the crash. To reduce the g-forces on the driver/passengers, structure of a car MUST be designed so it gives way upon impact. Longer engine bay (more room to slow down) means lower g-force on the driver (higher potential for survival). Smart barely has any room for deceleration, so its structure has to be tougher in order to protect the cabin, which means that the driver of the smart car will experience much higher g-forces and is less likely to survive. Smart car may look like new after the crash but that doesn't mean that the driver will look as good as the car. It's neccessary for a car's structure to crumple in case of a high speed crash - that's how it saves your life. It's not how good a car looks like after the crash that tells you how safe it is and unfortunately a lot of people fall for this and that's exactly what they want you to believe when you watch this video. Smart car has its benefits but safety is not one of them - simple physics.
Also, a heavier car will decellerate more slowly than a lighter car because of inertia. All things being equal, a heavier car will be safer than a lighter car.
That's 90% of every modern vehicle. Except that fact that every other vehicle actually has a crumple zone that is designed to crush so your internal organs don't take the impact, unlike the "smart".
Since the Smart came to the US (early 2000s) there's only been a small number of fatalities within the SMART realm. Thousands of people die every year in car accidents, the Smart is obviously not immune to this. The only difference really is the crumple zone (and the weight) other cars have VS the smart. Sure you might seriously some injure some limbs but your likelihood of dying is fairly small. And honestly, if you're on a motorcycle your likelihood is high as well.
Keith The smart has no crumple zones as its too small to include them. Put a meter inside the test dummies head and see if the driver wouldn't have suffered brain damage.
I was a State Trooper in a southern state (US)... Worked a wreck on the interstate involving a smart car. It was single vehicle. The woman rolled it trying to merge onto the intestate. Looked almost identical to this vehicle. She had her seatbelt on but somehow the top of her head came out the sunroof. It scalped her. Her dog was ejected and broke his jaw. The dog survived and so did she. The car rolled 3-4 times, looked like a crushed coke can.
Yes, I’d like to see photos of the Smart’s interior, and the dummy’s legs. Paused at 0:48 it looks like the Merc’s nose is pushing into the Smart’s rigid shell and tilting the Smart upwards, so Merc’s bonnet would go into Samar’s windscreen & through the airbag. So no legs, and no head either ☹️
I watched a test done by fifth gear the body is incredibly stiff and the shell was intact at high speed. But being so stiff would cause serious internal injuries
The idea is that the Smart uses the crumple zones of the opposing vehicle to reduce the forces (the 5th gear test was against a concrete block which had no crumple zone). Of course, this trick doesn't work if the Smart hits another Smart (or something that uses the same design philosophy). In that case they may as well hit the concrete block, where the car stays reasonably intact and the occupants become sauce all over the interior.
+CHL41993 I wonder if we can find the full video somewhere. There is one very look alike in youtube but it's made with an older smart and an older mercedes..
Yes, but it is betweem the old C-Class and the old Smart, this one are the new models. Here we can see how the smart cheats and use the crumple zone of the C-Class to pass the test lol.
Khaled AlHouli precisely! They must have had something to hide and they figured: "Ah, those idiots would never notice, we'll show them the opposite side of the crash. Lol
In the smart goes from 50km/h to 0 in 0,01sec lol while in mercedes seems like it will keep going after the crash, so all the organs in the smart are fucked up
The deceleration must be as slow as possible. The smart car's cage stays intact, but that does not help. The massive brain injury is from the brain hitting the inside of the skull. Not from anything hittng the skull on the outside.
Joaquin Carrillo the smart stopped so hard the headlamp flew off its socket. Either they used some cheap zipties to hold it in place or thats the perfect example of what will happen to your eyes in the event.
Always amazed as an accident investigator the strength of Smart Cars. Only issue in "real world" crashes are the ping pong effects. What happens after the impact. The cars dynamics of being outweighed and "sent" flying.
Smarts frame is very stiff but it is still not as safe as a normal size car. Try to hit a pillow with your hand and then hit a wooden chair. The pillow will be slowing down your hand after it becomes stationary. Now the chair will stop it almost instantly. That is also how car crashes work. Of couse air bags will help a lot but Smart will never be as safe as an S-class merc.
You can see clearly at 0:40 how much the mercedes pushed into the smart and the movement had probably not ended there. It´s for sure that the driver of the smart wouldn´t have survived that crash. The two cars are too far apart from each other when they "tested" the door as well. Test result => failed! Driver => dead!
At 00:50 / 00:51 they show the right side of the Smart. Watch at slowest speed. Earlier, the left door is clearly damaged & around 00:40 you can see the wing mirror being crumpled as the door column is pushed in. At 00:53, after handshakes, that looks like it’s a different car from another test run.
My uncle is part of clean up and was called to remove a body in a Car crash, he didn't see anything until they moved the two SUVs to reveal a smart wedged between them
dangerous, impractical off the golf courses. One hit from something significant and the Smart ends up in perfect condition hanging from a tree limb due to no weight.
I don't know if the Mitsubishi that you are referring to is available in the US, but with the average weight of a car in the US weighing about 1.5 tons and up, these cars are just ridiculous and have no place here in the US EXCEPT for basic commuting very very short distances and tooling around the metro areas where parking can be a major issue. Also with pick up trucks here weighing in at 5000 pounds or 2.5 tons, Semi trucks at 80 thousand pounds, buses at 25 thousand pounds, the Smart needs to be smart and get the hell out of this country.
Well, having been in a smart for two that was rear ended by a pickup truck I can vouch for it's ability to survive. The impact bent the frame of the pickup, I drove the smart for the remainder of the day, didn't even break the rear glass. Oh, did it fly like a golf ball? No.The energy absorbed by both vehicles crumple zones did their jobs. I coasted to the side of the road because the car had shut itself off and turned on the hazard lights. I still have the smart, it's a 2005 diesel.
Audi A7 2016 and newer GMC sierras have eqivalent ratings to smart cars in all areas tested, and the smart cars (for reasons of inadequacy i suspect) are not tested for headlights, head restraint and small overlap front impact. if you want to get whiplash bouncing off a Sierra, be my guest. a 100km/h impact will feel like a ~150km/h crash to the smart car, and you have one third the crumple zone. And I have no fucking clue where you got the idea that trucks are 1 or 2 stars. i looked, and no utility/pickup vehicles i found have been given less than three stars since 2013. and both models of smart car only have 4/5 star euro ncap, so that's bullshit as well.
I drive the Smart every day in Belgium, Germany, Netherlands. The safety cell makes it a little tank. 130 km/h for three hours and feeling safe is normal praktice for me. The negative comments are from people who never drove the little beauty. Notice I am a former Saab driver 👍
I think SAABs were in a different place to all other manufacturers with regards to safety. This crazy little car should be speed limited, as incompatible with most other vehicles. Safety cage is not going to save occupants
What they don’t show in this video, is how the Smart bounced back after impact. That happened with a Smart and a C-class, on a video here on YTube. Imagine how an S-class would push it back with that big mass.
The ONLY thing that allows for possible survivability for the Smart car occupants is the cars light weight. Park the Smart car 2 ft behind a dump truck, then run the S class into the rear of it at 100kph. Run the test again with the Smart car and S class roles reversed. In the real world, little/light cars do NOT do well (in accidents) while traveling on roads with larger/heavier vehicles. Mass and inertia is a critical factor on public roads.
Can anyone explain what “Crash Overlap 50%” means? Text is on screen at 0:26. Note that the description of Merc’s “Safety Principle” does NOT include the front crumple zone, which the Smart doesn’t have.
Drew the structure is actually really tough for a small car, it can survive anything in a city. But on the autobahn at high speed you got no chance tough ahaha
Nate Ksr not really man , i just saw a mustang hit one of these cars at 40- 50 mph and that little car flew and the lady in the car was pretty messed up
Benito Ocampo I'm kinda shocked they got rid of the solid real axle not that long ago, after DECADES OF dangerously unstable Mustangs. It made them EXTREMELY prone to fishtail for NO reason. On DRY pavement. I've seen it, and I came close to doing that myself in one. I don't effing trust car companies, ESPECIALLY Ford (the Pinto). They put them out KNOWING they'll kill someone, or a lot of them. The 1.90 they "save" to.not fix them is more important.
it would be good to say what force of inertial overload the passengers in both cars feel. because I think it will be very important for the survival of the passengers in the small car!
In the smarts manual it says that it activates the other cars crash zone. How is it going to activate the trees crash zone or the walls crash zone? One thing I know for sure. If you want to meet me, drive smart!
The f 350 would never make it to the test facility because in typical ford fashion it'd break down before it got there and the driver of the peterbuilt wouldn't be interested. He'd be parked up at a diner eating a quadruple cheeseburger
I never understood the metal box that forms the smartcar's cab... sure it's tough... but if it's so tough wouldn't too much energy be transferred to the occupants?
royaloreca You said they wouldn't survive. Of course they would be injured, an accident at a few miles per hour can cause some minor injuries. My mother hit a pole going well over the speed limit on a highway when I was a kid. She's still alive and well with the only trace of the accident left being a metal plate in her left ankle. I guarantee you if she had driven a Smart car she would be dead.
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Door still opens makes it easier to get the body's out
And in the trunk is a broom and dust pan to clean up the bodies! 👍
@@tomlovejoy1534 Yeap
Yes,but is this just set up for the video?Hmhm???
Unless the boddies wear safety beltss
You meant "the corpses" right?
I want to see the car crash.
What I see:
80% some random old guys
10% some close up from the ground
5% some yellow tape
4% some door
1% the crash
🤣🤣🤣
😂😂😂😁
Apart from the unnecessary identification of the people as "Old", (which usually, not always, means more experienced), yes, quite true.
They don't want to show you the crash because you'll see that the S class had almost 2 feet longer to decelerate than the Smart did. Meaning the occupants in the S class would've had a far less "splat" stop.
OH YEAH NAHUI
The smart driver’s name is test,he passed away
Underrated comment!
Ha ha ha..🤣🤣🤣
Damn 😅 good one.
r/waystosidestepregulation
HAHAHHA
It's the instant high G-force that kills you, S class has a big nose, which bends intentionally to absorb all the forces, smart car may look "ok" after the crash but having a small and stiff metal body that doesnt bend puts a lot of forces on the driver so you'll end up with a lot of internal bleedings after the crash and die
What you don't realize is that the smart would also be slowed down by the crumple zone of the S class, so what you said is not true in this case, however, if hitting a concrete wall you would be right.
Also, the change in speed would be greater in the smart since it weights less.
ah yes, its not like this video was probably made by professionals that probably know way more than you
@@axys6771 The video is basically an Advertisement by Daimler thats supposed to make you think all Daimler cars are safe
@@Saymon10 The fact of a significant greater speed change in the Smart implies significant greater deceleration and hence higher probability to die
They even said "The Biomechanical forces were much lower than the limits" which means they wouldnt have died
I just watched a commercial.
I just read a comment
I just ate a hotdog.
I just sprayed an Anti bug spray on a cat
I just read The Hobbit
I just woke up
why is smart the safest vehicle?
Because in the worst case a maximum of two people being killed...
Roflmao
I wanna see it go against the gls
@@BigpurrEli the g class
@@JustGeorgeGG Mercedes Unimog
@@aaryeshg.6526 😂 that would be interesting
1:00 "test passed, once again"
However, the passengers did not pass. They passed away
Daft car. Germans making some silly cars
Lmao
Let's hear about the G-Forces involved. In at least one test (found on RUclips) of a Smart Car hitting a concrete barrier at 50mph, the doors stayed shut etc., but the G-Forces were unsurvivable by a human
The term you're looking for here is "impact spike". And the nice music and sciencey-looking video doesn't talk about that.
highest momentarily G-Force any human experienced ever was ~214G. I belive you won't be aple to go close to this with Smart Car, as it was achived by IndyCar Series 2003 Kenny Bräck's Crash
Yes it does. Clearly states that everything stayed within the bio mechanical limits. Pretty sure these limits include the spike.
@@qayray please consider that this video is a Daimler ad, so its probably biased towards their cars, also they never specify the actual g-forces(or spike) experienced by the occupants.
@@mactep1 yeah this is an ad, but the Fortwo got solid marks from both the IIHS and the NHTSA in their crash tests.
Notice how they don't show you what the cars look like after the crash.
+Urban Chaos 2.0 the smart may be more rigid and look a lot better than the mercedes, but rigid structures make harder impacts, the looks doesn't matter too much, but yeah i think the mercedes has a better chance to survive
+TheLordKraven 7 kbdndbebnebbeb
Lisa Moss what?
+TheLordKraven
What is the name of a small car
smart fortwo
There should be a rule against editing Crash test videos !!!
niceguy60 or a lawsuit by editing it .
It's not exactly a euro NCAP video is it. Just an advert
@@sixstonks9385 well it's a extremely
edited Video Based on the NCAP test 🤔
@@niceboy60 but it's not an NCAP test, it's a consumer demonstration, there are no standards
@@sixstonks9385 if theres no standards why posted 🤦♀️ 🤷
you are trying to justify something by making it 100x worse
takeaway: S-Class absorbed crash for both cars
Pretty interesting. We didn’t see one piece of evidence that this “amazing safety standard” smart car held up well for any occupants. Mostly just people walking around smh
You don't "have" to trust anybody. That's why you don't see many smart cars on the roads. People tend to be smarter these days than just to trust.
@ Branden van der Merwe they are pretty safe, I know people who have survived quite dangerous crashes against larger cars. They’re just a niche product.
@@brandenvandermerwe5352 smart cars are like everywhere. Like every 10th car you see is a smart because they are just so damn good and safe
so why dont show the entire crash? lol. passed? i doupt
RUclips Admin Noticed how far the Smart Car was from the Mercedes? Marketing Team: "lets just leave that bit out of how much air-time our car got...'
RUclips Admin That smart not only lost it's forward momentum when it impacted the merc (which weighs more than 2X as much), it probably gained some backwards momentum as well. Sure, the passenger compartment held up, it will be easier to remove the corpses that experienced well over deadly G-force.
Nedews go to the IIHS in the states. Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.
That was what I thought. Because the Smart car has already stopped when the Mercedes is still absorbing shock.
0:58. We DO see the most German looking bloke ever though!
The didn't even show the end result of the crash test for either car! All we see is the cars starting to hit, then flash camera to the wrecked cars sitting in the distance. Why hide the full length of the car crash unless it wasn't as "good" as you make it believe. Be Smart.....don't drive a Smart.
DemolitionMissions why?
Nah actually smarts are very very safe, watch the video fifth gear made where they crash tested a smart car, you’ll see
Thats a thing your cabin did not collide, but the G forces will be much higher ,than in a regular car. In a smart there is basicly a 40cm collapse zone, but in a "real" car there are much more space to collapse, so the G forces will be lower.
So the Smarts are not "very very safe", they are just okay.
Groupcraft65 you are completely missing the point , the car might maintain its shape , but the driver wont
Any crash needs to be cushioned or the vehicle occupants suffer multiple crashes , notice how the dummy head goes straight to the car pillar bypassing the airbags ( uncut video )
ruclips.net/video/sKSPxQjPOm0/видео.html
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I would like to see this recreated with an F350 instead of an S Class. Lol
Rest in peace F-350 driver then...
@@armands3153 Smart car will definitely pass...
Away.
Smart will pass
Under the f350
*Whips out the Unimog*
@@armands3153Maybe If the Smart pogoed up and went through it's windshield.
This is like if Boeing shows a plane crashing and just before the crash they cut to a guy and say: “see, he survived the crash!”
I'll ride in the S class thanks all the same.
The s class was still going forward when the smart already went backwards!
Maybe the passenger cell is intact but your guts would fly out on your mouth in a smart
exact !!
Was thinking the same thing, even if a steel cage dropped from 100 feet up has no real damage, it doesn't mean the monkey inside is still alive.
wow, the video was released 6 years ago, yet here are people answering 😂
@@lunakon5911 Long after you die your account will still exist and people will respond to your comments and you won't answer and they will think "why don't they respond ?".
@@chinabluewho yeah, sure, but I meant that to the comment of Ruredd2*** there was an answer within one day :)
Yeah but the slow-mo shows the smart instantly stopping whereas the S class slows a much smoother way.
This means that the crash is more violent in the Smart: a greater force is exerted on the passengers in order to slow them fast.
The longer the hood, the softer the deceleration...
Benz pushed the smart in reverse, definitely less g force in the benz. Size matters guys
@@kamn1 It´s called physics...
double the mass, of course the S class will decelerate slower.
so im invincible in an old american car? cool!
@@adamspitfire Probably not invincible, but I share your thoughts since I also own an older long car. Lol
Would like to know the impact speed and occupant g-forces experienced. At 0:50 the Smart stops moving, whilst the S class is still travelling, so Smart will have experienced greater g to stop. I have no doubt it can pass the safety tests, but I still know which I'd rather be in when the worst happens.
Noticed this as well
This film hides the truth! Shows the action just till the Smart looses its speed. But doesn't shows the most important, after the crash, Smart flies back, the S class continues its way in original direction! S class looses cca -25, 30 km/h of its speed, Smart looses -75-80! That is the difference! Never forget, cars knows much better the fizik, than we! I=m x v
Totally agree... Plus Mercedes Benz vehicles are designed so that the crumple zones help the passengers in the other car survive too. So one of the reasons the smart fared so well is because it was crashed into an S class. If this were two Smart Cars colliding, the results would be far far worse.
Smart in made by Swatch and Mercedes (safety done by Mercedes) if you didn't know.
SIMcityplayer2002 actually A smart is a Mercedes with another badge on it, simply because putting the Mercedes badge on it would be humiliation for Mercedes, plus they had to put a bigger price tag on it.
Another truth is that while the passenger compartment of the smart car stays intact the passengers experience much higher g forces in a crash. Not really the cars fault, there's just not as much room for crumple zones in something that small.
wrr
"The forces on the occupants were significantly less than the bio-mechanical limits." Oh wow you've sold me! My head will still be intact, it just won't work anymore? I guess it's a smart car if safety is not your priority.
Maybe they did the crash test at 20 KM/h combined speed.
I would really like to see a smart car demolition derby. That would be sweet.
yea and vs a 50s dodge car, if you know why lol
Pls show us the full video.. where the Smart finally ended up at . Viewers are also smart
You don't even need to see how it ended - it's not that they can't make a car that will stay "intact" after the crash. To reduce the g-forces on the driver/passengers, structure of a car MUST be designed so it gives way upon impact. Longer engine bay (more room to slow down) means lower g-force on the driver (higher potential for survival). Smart barely has any room for deceleration, so its structure has to be tougher in order to protect the cabin, which means that the driver of the smart car will experience much higher g-forces and is less likely to survive. Smart car may look like new after the crash but that doesn't mean that the driver will look as good as the car. It's neccessary for a car's structure to crumple in case of a high speed crash - that's how it saves your life. It's not how good a car looks like after the crash that tells you how safe it is and unfortunately a lot of people fall for this and that's exactly what they want you to believe when you watch this video. Smart car has its benefits but safety is not one of them - simple physics.
Also, a heavier car will decellerate more slowly than a lighter car because of inertia. All things being equal, a heavier car will be safer than a lighter car.
Bullshit a person would of died in that smart car in a real accident
FPsGameFreak how the whole frame of the car didn't even fold or bend or anything the door still opened it couldn't have done. better
That's 90% of every modern vehicle. Except that fact that every other vehicle actually has a crumple zone that is designed to crush so your internal organs don't take the impact, unlike the "smart".
JoshuaPlays yes people just whaste your money on these tiny eco friendly coffins.
Since the Smart came to the US (early 2000s) there's only been a small number of fatalities within the SMART realm. Thousands of people die every year in car accidents, the Smart is obviously not immune to this. The only difference really is the crumple zone (and the weight) other cars have VS the smart. Sure you might seriously some injure some limbs but your likelihood of dying is fairly small. And honestly, if you're on a motorcycle your likelihood is high as well.
Keith The smart has no crumple zones as its too small to include them. Put a meter inside the test dummies head and see if the driver wouldn't have suffered brain damage.
I was a State Trooper in a southern state (US)... Worked a wreck on the interstate involving a smart car. It was single vehicle. The woman rolled it trying to merge onto the intestate. Looked almost identical to this vehicle. She had her seatbelt on but somehow the top of her head came out the sunroof. It scalped her. Her dog was ejected and broke his jaw. The dog survived and so did she. The car rolled 3-4 times, looked like a crushed coke can.
Maybe she was one of those people who put on the seatbelt with a little slack so it’s more comfortable?
@@KP3droflxp nope. She said she was wearing it correctly and the way the belt was pulled proved that.
Pretty sure that smart car driver lost his legs
Spoke to him, he’s ok. He didn’t lose anything.
The cabin is reinforced, so it’s unlikely.
iam so jealous of that guy in a smart : said no one ever
jose jalapenho says anyone who has parked ever
Nay2003 AKA350ZRULES I'd just buy a bike, myself. The dork factor of this is just not good. Even a 250cc is cooler.
I did once with a smart roadster, it looks cool
I think I'll take my chances in the S Class, thank you very much.
In the video is a cut before the Smart is thrown back. There are much stronger forces in the Smart. That's only advertising - real physics is hidden!
Test passed!
Driver named Test:
next time show me the dummies legs on the side that got hit.
Exactly. They didn't even show the fuckin impact side of the smart car.
Well. Some things better not to see. Small coffin on wheels
legs"bye bye : )"
The video was heavily modified.
CUBEoneVX Not.. and 2014 smart got 4/5 stars on EURO NCAP rating.. that same as normal sedans
Unfortunately CUBEoneVX's response is normal for those who don't understand the physics behind it.
Love seeing how they only opened the right door in the video 😂
the Merc saved everyone by having a long front end. If you put a smart car against a smart car you'd probably have 4 deaths.
Man, I sat in a smart car, that dude just lost his legs.
Yes, I’d like to see photos of the Smart’s interior, and the dummy’s legs. Paused at 0:48 it looks like the Merc’s nose is pushing into the Smart’s rigid shell and tilting the Smart upwards, so Merc’s bonnet would go into Samar’s windscreen & through the airbag. So no legs, and no head either ☹️
I can't believe that they destroyed a S Class to test that piece of shit of smart.
LMFAO right.
Soo true i say samething
Both cars are a piece of shit
Physics is still hard to argue
I watched a test done by fifth gear the body is incredibly stiff and the shell was intact at high speed. But being so stiff would cause serious internal injuries
The idea is that the Smart uses the crumple zones of the opposing vehicle to reduce the forces (the 5th gear test was against a concrete block which had no crumple zone).
Of course, this trick doesn't work if the Smart hits another Smart (or something that uses the same design philosophy). In that case they may as well hit the concrete block, where the car stays reasonably intact and the occupants become sauce all over the interior.
I'd rather drive a Mercedes than a toy ''smart'' car.
Svartedauden The Smart IS a Mercedes!
Svartedauden I'd rather drive an aircraft carrier or an army tank.
+captainbackflash The Smart is not a Mercedes-Benz. The brand Smart belongs to Daimler, Mercedes-Benz does too.
S Class, NOT C Class... Two totally different levels of Mercedes Benz. The S is top of the line, while the C is rubbish.
boofdfast I wouldn't call the C-class rubbish. Sure, it's nowhere as good as an S-class, but it's still a good car.
0:52 smart is miles away from the hitting point. and they are opening the door on the other side at 0:56
+CHL41993 Good eye
+CHL41993 I wonder if we can find the full video somewhere. There is one very look alike in youtube but it's made with an older smart and an older mercedes..
Pablo Rial Diaz There is an IIHS crash test between a smart and a C-class. The results are horrifying.
Yes, but it is betweem the old C-Class and the old Smart, this one are the new models.
Here we can see how the smart cheats and use the crumple zone of the C-Class to pass the test lol.
Door test 😂
They pulled open the passenger door! LMAO
I just watched an ad so I could watch an ad. SMH.
the picture in not clear. I want to see the driver side of both cars after the crash.
Khaled AlHouli precisely! They must have had something to hide and they figured: "Ah, those idiots would never notice, we'll show them the opposite side of the crash. Lol
Mashaca Mashaca i saw much self braging and less tecnical info image/proof. Of course they edited the video in their own benefit, this is a comercial.
that G force stop will kill some one lol
Edgar Villa wrong.. tell that to the f1 drivers that crash from over 200km/h speeds
DuBstep115 you can not compare f1 drivers to normal people
Nineq 96 They do not obey the laws of physics?
DuBstep115 dude they are trained for those kind of impacts go check some videos
DuBstep115 they're too Smart for that
Better to be dead and cool, than alive and uncool - D. Johnson
Actually - M. Rourke..
*In India Suzuki cars r way worse in safety!!!*
*Cars usually bend like a sheet of paper!!!* 😂😂
Stop bashing MS, they do have safe cars and if you're blind, then we can't do anything.
Try crashing this at a mere 74 mph and you're fucked.
Like you are with any other vehicle
why do you like saturns lmao
lolyermad, idk.
lolyermad I know it's been out of buisness, but as a kid I was in one for a bit. It was a nice ION sedan.
And did the S-class pass? ;)
V-Told yes.. lmao
Something tells me it's a yes
I notice the little trash can on wheels stops moving forward a lot faster than the big sedan. Deceleration G's can be deadly.
Dit filmpje maakt mij achterdochtig
In the smart goes from 50km/h to 0 in 0,01sec lol while in mercedes seems like it will keep going after the crash, so all the organs in the smart are fucked up
exactly
The deceleration must be as slow as possible. The smart car's cage stays intact, but that does not help. The massive brain injury is from the brain hitting the inside of the skull. Not from anything hittng the skull on the outside.
Naah , the smart goes from 50kmh to -20kmh in 0,01sec.
Joaquin Carrillo the smart stopped so hard the headlamp flew off its socket. Either they used some cheap zipties to hold it in place or thats the perfect example of what will happen to your eyes in the event.
"Hey uh... Boss... Don't know how to tell you this... But the dummy inside the Smart got it's legs crushed and it's head torn off."
Questi test li dovrebbero far vedere più spesso in TV
Always amazed as an accident investigator the strength of Smart Cars. Only issue in "real world" crashes are the ping pong effects. What happens after the impact. The cars dynamics of being outweighed and "sent" flying.
Look how small the smart car's crumple zone is.
kegrv Greyd Because it is small. Duh.
Kari Greyd
LOL what crumple Zone.
@Audi A7
Volvo 240: say that again I dare you
@Audi A7
Volvo 240 is stronkest car and very reliable
Gonna last you way longer than one kf those mini cars
Smarts frame is very stiff but it is still not as safe as a normal size car. Try to hit a pillow with your hand and then hit a wooden chair. The pillow will be slowing down your hand after it becomes stationary. Now the chair will stop it almost instantly. That is also how car crashes work. Of couse air bags will help a lot but Smart will never be as safe as an S-class merc.
A class, wich also have an air bag..
Not if it's a "My Pillow", your hand will bouncing for a while! "Crack-addict" Mike Lindell comes up with some real "winners" sometimes!
Now we want smart vs Abrams
When I saw the video I tought to my self:"Dude that Smart is going to disappear
At 38sec you can see the front edge of the door crumple, but at 51sec there is no damage to the door
0:38 0:51
You can see clearly at 0:40 how much the mercedes pushed into the smart and the movement had probably not ended there. It´s for sure that the driver of the smart wouldn´t have survived that crash.
The two cars are too far apart from each other when they "tested" the door as well.
Test result => failed!
Driver => dead!
At 00:50 / 00:51 they show the right side of the Smart. Watch at slowest speed. Earlier, the left door is clearly damaged & around 00:40 you can see the wing mirror being crumpled as the door column is pushed in. At 00:53, after handshakes, that looks like it’s a different car from another test run.
My uncle is part of clean up and was called to remove a body in a Car crash, he didn't see anything until they moved the two SUVs to reveal a smart wedged between them
Omg! How terrible!
The Mecedes computer after crash test : "New hadrware found. Install?" 😁🤣
Smart car transforms into coffin lol helps justify the price coffins aren't cheap 😂
But will it blend?
You mean: will it bend?
sysierius .. No, no. He really means, "But will it Blend?!"
Mercedes smoke don't breathe this!
That is the question...
*epic b roll of blend tec blenders plays*
dangerous, impractical off the golf courses. One hit from something significant and the Smart ends up in perfect condition hanging from a tree limb due to no weight.
I don't know if the Mitsubishi that you are referring to is available in the US, but with the average weight of a car in the US weighing about 1.5 tons and up, these cars are just ridiculous and have no place here in the US EXCEPT for basic commuting very very short distances and tooling around the metro areas where parking can be a major issue. Also with pick up trucks here weighing in at 5000 pounds or 2.5 tons, Semi trucks at 80 thousand pounds, buses at 25 thousand pounds, the Smart needs to be smart and get the hell out of this country.
Well, having been in a smart for two that was rear ended by a pickup truck I can vouch for it's ability to survive. The impact bent the frame of the pickup, I drove the smart for the remainder of the day, didn't even break the rear glass. Oh, did it fly like a golf ball? No.The energy absorbed by both vehicles crumple zones did their jobs. I coasted to the side of the road because the car had shut itself off and turned on the hazard lights. I still have the smart, it's a 2005 diesel.
Dumb agricultural people don't seem to understand technology. Expected from the country of anti-vaxxers!
Large car or truck vs Smart - think of of a tennis ball hitting a wall.
Audi A7 2016 and newer GMC sierras have eqivalent ratings to smart cars in all areas tested, and the smart cars (for reasons of inadequacy i suspect) are not tested for headlights, head restraint and small overlap front impact. if you want to get whiplash bouncing off a Sierra, be my guest. a 100km/h impact will feel like a ~150km/h crash to the smart car, and you have one third the crumple zone. And I have no fucking clue where you got the idea that trucks are 1 or 2 stars. i looked, and no utility/pickup vehicles i found have been given less than three stars since 2013. and both models of smart car only have 4/5 star euro ncap, so that's bullshit as well.
I drive the Smart every day in Belgium, Germany, Netherlands. The safety cell makes it a little tank. 130 km/h for three hours and feeling safe is normal praktice for me. The negative comments are from people who never drove the little beauty.
Notice I am a former Saab driver 👍
I think SAABs were in a different place to all other manufacturers with regards to safety. This crazy little car should be speed limited, as incompatible with most other vehicles. Safety cage is not going to save occupants
What they don’t show in this video, is how the Smart bounced back after impact. That happened with a Smart and a C-class, on a video here on YTube. Imagine how an S-class would push it back with that big mass.
Of course they don't want to show that, what we have already seen in c class vs smart.
while you are at it, test the smart vs a fully loaded semi.
Wull...What happens when a semi hits ya', what then smart guy!?
***** Same thing as when a semi hits a motorcycle, truck, or full size sedan. It crushes it like a pancake.
Chad Jeanes It's a joke.
***** You should feel bad about still not getting that it's an RCR quote.
***** Ahaha, I can just smell the butthurt!
***** You got so embarrassed that you bitched out and deleted your comments!
BAHAHAHA!
The ONLY thing that allows for possible survivability for the Smart car occupants is the cars light weight.
Park the Smart car 2 ft behind a dump truck, then run the S class into the rear of it at 100kph.
Run the test again with the Smart car and S class roles reversed.
In the real world, little/light cars do NOT do well (in accidents) while traveling on roads with larger/heavier vehicles.
Mass and inertia is a critical factor on public roads.
I’d rather die in the S class then be see in the smart car
The people were congratulating each other because they thought they will have everyone fooled successfully. Little did they know...
lol looks like the suspension failed on the s class
Can anyone explain what “Crash Overlap 50%” means? Text is on screen at 0:26. Note that the description of Merc’s “Safety Principle” does NOT include the front crumple zone, which the Smart doesn’t have.
Glad they showed the one test in 1000 that passed.
try Smart VS Hummer H1
Smart vs a semi at 60 mph. Home run is all i'm saying to that
I‘d rather be in the Smart, the H1 doesn‘t even have air bags.
@@BL-yj2wp Lol H1 will crush that smart, in the Hummer you won't even notice that you just hit something XD
Sorry but almost no one has ever surgvived an accdent in a SMART car.
Drew the structure is actually really tough for a small car, it can survive anything in a city. But on the autobahn at high speed you got no chance tough ahaha
Nate Ksr not really man , i just saw a mustang hit one of these cars at 40- 50 mph and that little car flew and the lady in the car was pretty messed up
Give me the link then, because the cage of the car in fucking tough
Drew how do you know? there's tens of thousands of these measly boogers out there
Benito Ocampo I'm kinda shocked they got rid of the solid real axle not that long ago, after DECADES OF dangerously unstable Mustangs. It made them EXTREMELY prone to fishtail for NO reason. On DRY pavement. I've seen it, and I came close to doing that myself in one.
I don't effing trust car companies, ESPECIALLY Ford (the Pinto). They put them out KNOWING they'll kill someone, or a lot of them. The 1.90 they "save" to.not fix them is more important.
it would be good to say what force of inertial overload the passengers in both cars feel. because I think it will be very important for the survival of the passengers in the small car!
tbh they should have tested crashing the smart into a big old 90s SUV, its much more common that the latest s class or whatever!
“Survivable” but a paraplegic!
In the smarts manual it says that it activates the other cars crash zone. How is it going to activate the trees crash zone or the walls crash zone? One thing I know for sure. If you want to meet me, drive smart!
Do it again but more real worldish, smart vs concrete truck
did they say tritium cabin? as in radioactive? or something else?
A Fortwo weighs over 1.1Tons? My god. That's way heavier than I thought.
I think it's with two mannequins included. It should weigh a little less than 1 Ton.
The f 350 would never make it to the test facility because in typical ford fashion it'd break down before it got there and the driver of the peterbuilt wouldn't be interested. He'd be parked up at a diner eating a quadruple cheeseburger
Here's what happened to the Ford
He had his map upsidedown the whole time
So he got lost and dug a hole to china
Then he got shot and robbed and they scrapped his truck
"Test passed once again"... right. I'll never forget the mk1 fortwo crash test.
Great Video, Song used in this video please.
I never understood the metal box that forms the smartcar's cab... sure it's tough... but if it's so tough wouldn't too much energy be transferred to the occupants?
They have huge airbags to account for that
Stay tuned for part 2 where a smart car breaks the speed record backwards 😂
That moment when you realise this Smart restyling is at least 7 years old.
The two people in the small car are dead but the frame is in one piece mission accomplished😃👍🏼
My eyes is on the S Class 👀
In slow mo video you can clearly see how the Smart car stops instantly while the S class keeps moving. Mass wins!
WOW I never could have guessed.
Ive always wondered about this 😂😭
still not buying.. worst resale value
Johnlim Male, at only 4K!
Johnlim Male ugly as hell. That's my reason. Zero cool factor. Better off on a bike.
@@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823 Japans and familiars can love this
Winds of March Journey/Perry tribute band You would not know cool if it bite in the !@*.
now how about against a concrete wall, which has no give.
I don't thing many vehicles, or their occupants would survive that lol
At 30mph you should survive...
MercilessHobo you will live at 30 mph, but hitting an immovable object at that speed or above is most certainly gonna cause injury
royaloreca You said they wouldn't survive. Of course they would be injured, an accident at a few miles per hour can cause some minor injuries. My mother hit a pole going well over the speed limit on a highway when I was a kid. She's still alive and well with the only trace of the accident left being a metal plate in her left ankle. I guarantee you if she had driven a Smart car she would be dead.
That must be the safest dishwasher ever made.
Imagine watching this commercial and thinking to yourself, "Wow. That's impressive. I have GOT to get me a Smart car!"
They are great fun to be fair