Originally Posted By: Snagglefoot
Originally Posted By: OneEyeJack
Originally Posted By: Snagglefoot
Let’s put it up against an F-250.
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The immovable concrete barrier is a bit more of an obstacle than an F-250.
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I take it you think the bigger car is the 1959 Chev. A 2009 Chev Malibu weighs 3640 lbs. A 1959 Chev weighs 3625 LBS. The Chev Malibu was the bigger car. What you saw was the advantage of modern car saftey design vs old car design, not anything to do with size.
Also your comment on the immovable concrete barrier is worse than an F-250. Yes but only if the F-250 was at rest. If it was travelling at towards the Volvo at the same speed as the Volvo the conservation of energy would annihilate the Volvo. The truck weights 6000 lbs and the Volvo weights 4600 lbs. Grant you if I was going to be hit by an F-250, being inside the Volvo would be better than any other car of similar weight.
Crash testing can never exactly duplicate real life and every possible scenario. What crash testing can do is produce vehicles that are safer in most crashes. People today with less than adequate driving skills are surviving accidents that they probably caused. Our best hope is to avoid them and finally to be able to survive.
My wife walked away from a spectacular crash in a 96 850 Volvo wagon caused by a distracted driver that would have killed her in my 84 Civic wagon. And today cars are even better.
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