Mercedes S-CLASS vs SMART Fortwo FRONTAL Crash Test
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- Опубликовано: 21 сен 2024
- Mercedes-Benz S-Class (2014) versus Smart Fortwo (2015)
In line with the safety philosophy "real-life safety" Mercedes-Benz has been testing the compatibility of different vehicles in such car-to-car crash tests for many years. Small and lightweight vehicles are generally at a disadvantage with regard to the mass ratio. For example, in an accident with a heavier vehicle this can lead to higher deceleration and greater application of force on the occupants.
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Smart is an interesting car. For 3 generations its main safety trick was that it uses other cars' crumple zones as its own. As it's light, it doesn't affect other safe cars much since they're usually designed to cope with equal or heavier cars, but once you put it against an unsafe car, Smart will rip through it like a cannonball.
You'd actually fair worse in a smart car because of its size the heavier car would fling the smart car away. So not only do you experience high g forces from the intial impact due to the lack of a crumple zone, you'd be flung back experiencing even more forces injuring you more.
andrew wright Smart car has a crumple zone too idiot
Nikola Martinis not big enough you dip shit
@@bryanlopez4770 Lmao why are you so mad :,D
I like how they don't show the part where the smart flys into the air.
+Esteban blank Exactly. The Mercedes is still sitting where the impact happened. The Smart is now potentially in oncoming traffic.
The Mercedes IS the oncoming traffic, you mouth breather.
One of the cars needed to move onto the opposite side of the road for the collision to happen. If it was the Mercedes, the oncoming traffic is still on the other side of the road to the Smart.
It's so that you can get an ariel view of whoever crashed into your smart.
Good bye feet, was fun knowing you.
David B dont need those when you hav a smart
Yes, the occupants of the smaller car will experience much higher acceleration forces than that of the larger car.
Ok, Smart's "cell" survived but what is the G force for the people inside? Compared to the S class (or any other limousine or mediumsized car), smart's front buffer zone is very small, does it have time to consume the energy? I am no expert but i imagine that if you build a stone car there will be no buffer zone and the stronger the car, the more the driver suffers (when there is no buffer zone)...
Smart and S-Class is amazing car, too. but in my opinion, I prefer Smart.
Thats a bloody waste of a good s-class. :(
Smart: Am I a joke to you?
why they stopped showing video from the moment Smart was flying back like a ball ? You run ahead and got hit which stops you suddenly and throw you back OR just you just reducing your speed and stop in three steps - a difference, isn't ?
You forgot lots of things like mercedes s class safety technologies. Mercedes always protect from crash and also escape from crash.
I want to see how many times the Smart rolled over before finally coming to a rest!!!!
Kinda cool that door still can be opened. What suck in these test is artificial non life like low speed. If I remember correctly 50 km/h. They should test cars with speeds around 80-100km/h
There's a higher speed test on fifth gear with a smart fortwo.
No car is able to protect its occupants at such speeds, none, not even huge SUVs, not even huge sedans like the S-Class. Industry standard is 40mph or 64kph (and has been for a long time), because that's about the average impact speed in a head-on collision. You have to take the fact into account that some evasive maneuvers are taking place before a crash and often, drivers are braking, which reduces the impact speed.
I'm honestly a little surprised that they chose 50kph for this test. Probably, because it looks less dramatic. The very first model of the Smart, released in 1998, was able to protect its occupants at a 64kph collision with an S-Class (not perfectly of course, but the occupants would still be alive and not have any deadly injuries), so the new model should be able to deal with the same speed.
no1DdC There’s people crashing into trees and metal poles at 100 miles per hour and living at this point.
If the impact speed is 100mph, there is absolutely no chance of survival in any car. What you are talking about is people claiming to have had an accident at those speeds, but in fact there was significant deceleration beforehand from braking, steering, grippy surfaces, etc.
The survival rate of any crash plummets after if the deceleration exceeds 43 miles per hour. Even a giant suv will not protect you in a head on collision with a wall above 45 mph, it's not possible for humans to decelerate that fast and live.
you better only hit an S-class Mercedes, because most of what didn't happen to the Smart Car was because the Mercedes has such a long crumple zone. Hit a crap car with no soft crumple zone and you'll probably not fare so well. : /
Appleblade imagine smacking into a truck. Dead for sure
So, dont buy s class, buy a smart, it`s safier
SovietDoge oh come on it was sarcasm's sentences dude
No
почему обрезали с места где смарт отлетает назад как мячик ? Вы бежите, вас бьют так что вы останавливаетесь и отлетаете назад или так что вы просто снижаете скорость и останавливаетесь через три шага - есть разница ?
Did they really damaged a jewel of an s class with a smart.?
thats a lie, smart car fails every time, unless you consider breaking your legs as a passing grade?
Smart's test weight is 1.124 kg, which is almost the maximum weight allowed of 1.170 kg (see www.smart.com/uk/en/index/smart-fortwo-453/technical-data.html)
S-Class test weight is 2.308 kg. Empty weight is 2.035 kg, maximum weight allowed is 2.750 kg (see www2.mercedes-benz.co.uk/content/unitedkingdom/mpc/mpc_unitedkingdom_website/en/home_mpc/passengercars/home/new_cars/models/s-class/_w222/facts_/tech_data.html).
So the loading of the Smart Fortwo is almost 100 percent, the S-Class is only loaded to about 38 percent.
In reality a crash between Mercedes Benz S-Class and a Smart Fortwo surely would be way more dramatic. Worst case scenario: A fully-loaded S-Class (2.750 kg) vs. almost empty Smart Fortwo (approximately 950kg).
The fact they only tested it with speed of 50kph, makes it even worst when a person crashed head on with a larger vehicle on higher speed.
Hahaha Smart Hard Shelf = all impact on passengers XXXXDD, and don't tell me that 50 cm of engine bay are gonna dumpen all the impact force :DDDD
hahahaha - The engine is in the back...
rasta172 that's even worse
I don't thik so, if the engine was in the front even in a small crash that engine would end up on Your legs :)
rasta172 the engine is designed to take the impact, try watch some front engine car crashes,in no crash you will see the engine going in the passenger bay,the engine will deform reducing the impact energy before it reaches you. if you do find one please send me the link .
how does the engine is supposed to take the impact? In all new cars there are crumple zones that take all the impact...not the engine
kinetic energy in the S-Class = 222.61 kj Smart ForTwo kinetic enegy = 108.41 kj , research before you open your mouth. period .
War heftig Jungs
Wow they can build a roll cage. Thats about it
I don't wanna do that on the road
Cuz S-class is so expensive xD
My friend - riding a bicycle with RPG in his hand vs. Mercedes Scheise Class - guess the results.
Like showing my mum this cause she owns a Smart
Smarts are Mini Tanks. Safety is of no thought nor concern when in one.
what did the smart get for that crash test with the merc s class?
5 stars apparently, both occupants of both vehicles were deemed to have little to no injury. So yea, they can build a roll cage. But from what I heard, the smart is dangerous to other vehicles due to its fact that it’s just a roll cage. I saw a smart car t-bone a Chrysler 300, thing basically went through the Chrysler.
lol how they dont even mention how s class handled it. probably people inside wouldnt notice. :D
I think smart is not safety in high speed crash.
There is no crash zone
BS i know someone who had a head on accident in smart car, he broke his arm and got neck pain, while the passenger in the other car a normal sedan was not hurt. Also do not blame speed because smart cars barely do 70 Mph
Smart crashed to left side of front bumper, but in the video the guy opened the right side door. it's ridiculus.
now let the s-class it the side of the smart 💀
El Smart es el rey de los microcar y siempre lo sera
All the forces are trasfered to the smaller car. It will change direction and fly backwards, the bigger car just comes to a stop. go figure
Grande smart. .....una piccola auto con una grande tecnologia
why cut the video before the crash is complete? ....fail
00:38 there you go
Just because it small doesnt mean its "safer"
verry nice. The Smart are safety before a s class
+Zockies HD (Echte Gamer) Wrong. The G-Force experienced in that Smart is much higher than in the S-Class. Instead of just the deceleration forces, you also have an additional opposite acceleration force when the much heavier S-class launches the smart back due to the MUCH higher kinetic energy. Not to mention that said kinetic energy is only dispersed in about 20 centimeters in the case of the Smart, while the Merc has more than a meter to do so before it has to come to a complete halt (longer hood = more metal = more shock absorption).
***** Yes, but in this case, neither of the cars would have a collapse of the passenger compartment, and that's when G-Forces come into play. The Smart's passenger compartment will be in roughly the same shape as the S-class', but the Smart would decelerate and then accelerate in the opposite direction all in a very small time-frame, whilst the S-class would just barrel right through with SOME decrease in speed. A rough calculation method would be that the S-class weighs twice as much as the Smart, and as such carries twice as much energy. If both cars are going the same speed, then the smart would only decrease the S-class' speed by 50% upon impact, and then begin to accelerate in the opposite direction due to the fact that the S-class is still moving in said direction. Taking all other forces out of the equation (friction with the ground, brake application, etc.), the smart would experience (nearly) twice as much G-force as the S-class. See my point now?
Hahahahahahahaha!!! Still don't feel any desire to do anything but laugh at the smart. Lol. Id like to see one smashed between 2 trucks next. Please? It would make my month/year/life!!!
***** Dang dude, calm down. You're getting pretty defensive about Mercedes. He can laugh at the S class if he wants to. I laugh at Mercs all the time, its okay for people to like different things.
***** lol its all good. its cool to see someone with a passion for cars. P.S. - Mercs are fantastic cars so its cool to like them
Any car or person would die from that in any car suv or anything
Thanks for not showing anything
What was both cars speed on video?
50km/h
This test would have been truely impressive with the Smart and a GL or an ML. While it is impressive that the Smart could withstand such a heavy car, the drivers were approximately sitting at the same height and the smart is just as tall as the S-Class. I'd imagine that the results would differ highly if those values change.
good!
and if you were in the suicide for two, your organs are mush. that's just how energy transfer works.
I still wouldn't feel safe in one
E3guyy That is a highly invalid statement because you haven't even been in a Smart. I have been driving Smarts for 3 years now and I have never not felt safe in mine. Safety is something that never comes to mind. The car is way too much fun to drive.
Who the fuck is thinking about being safe when driving a car? And if you are then thats a personal problem. Smarts are Mini Tanks. Safety is not of a concern, EVER.
***** you feel safe driving a smart??? do you live in texas
What about being crushed in the back by a semi truck and plowing into the next car in front of you. Wound up in a multi-vehicle collision today and couldn't imagine surviving if the first car was a smart car.
You'd be boned driving any car, even a large SUV if you're between two other cars.
Mary Paoletta any car would die from that idiot
I wouldn't want to site in a Smart which hits a car twice as heavy. I'd survive - yes, but I 'd be almost dead meat afterwards.... You can't overrule physics.
door is almost not injured, such as your body probably, theres a chance to hurt your legs, but I dont think in such meat way
Кирилл Бабученко
The kinetic energy itself might not get you, but the acceleration that results from small crumple zones will. Internal hemorrhages, brain injury, broken bones from the seatbelt, etc.
The S class driver walks away. The smart driver is still in an ambulance.
CyberpunkShadow Well, weak people usually have brain injuries or neck in accidents even in quite safe cars, such as Land cruiser, which is wxtremely popular here in Russia. But Ive seen serious accident with mini and girl driver walked away... Never seen a smart but I hope it is not so bad
Кирилл Бабученко
Yea man, the exceptions do happen and are strange, but usually it's down to the basics of physics.
Best bet is driving a heavy & new SUV. Plus, like you said, being in good physical shape is always helpful.
Non potete mettere la smart in concessionaria ma la S-Class.
Она не может с такой массой протаранить мерседес! Это бред!
она и не протаранила, а отлетела назад, причинив массу перегрузок своим пассажирам. Просто видео обрезано, чтобы не огорчать владельцев легких авто
what ?
I wonder what happens in the last 90% of the crash that they had to edit out.
It probably got flung into the air
Real Name agree. :D they think we are stupid.
通常小車一撞全毀可是只有飲琴蓋兒已！！！！
Oantanfaque!!!
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don't show nothing
fooooor
Smart 1100kg. wut?
2,308kg for an S-Class crazy
Noobs smart cars are bad dudes sedans are good dudes suvs are good dudes number two buses are big fat good dudes and last convertible are bad rollover unsafe dudes so the s class is better
what the duck is this !
Uhhh
this is C class not S class
see the rear window size and interior!!
It's definetly an S class dude.. look at the massive hood and the headlights
It's S-Class. Yeah rear door is short because this is SWB model.
woahh :O
I don't wanna do that on the road
Cuz S-class is so expensive xD
I think smart is not safety in high speed crash.
There is no crash zone
Hahahahahahahaha!!! Still don't feel any desire to do anything but laugh at the smart. Lol. Id like to see one smashed between 2 trucks next. Please? It would make my month/year/life!!!
I don't wanna do that on the road
Cuz S-class is so expensive xD
I don't wanna do that on the road
Cuz S-class is so expensive xD
I don't wanna do that on the road
Cuz S-class is so expensive xD