No tiny car can be safe. Yeah, they might not burst into flames or whatever. But, their weight is damning.
Picture a ping pong ball bouncing off a bowling ball. That is about right regarding a tiny car hitting or being hit by a Toy truck.
Now, think about what is going on inside that PPBall or tiny car — one instant you are going north, the next south. Mebbe the car interior does not get crushed. Fine. But, your head is still going north, snapping your neck like a twig.
I saw this years ago when a friend’s wife was driving her sedan with her 3 month old kid in a “safe” baby seat. An arsehole ran the red light and T-boned her at 40mph. She was OK. but the baby was instantly dead.
Yes, size matters. Especially relative size.
We don’t need tiny cars, we just need simple cars like the Nash Rambler American, and Pinto, the VW Bug, the Ford Falcon, the Valiant, the Toyota Corolla of the 60s.
Cars that would be considered unsafe today without the $1000s, and $1000s, and $1000s of dollars and decades of accumulated add-ons of bells and whistles, and expensive safety features, but cheap and good.