Watch: Testing Suggests Highway Guardrails No Match for Heavy EVs

Breitbart ^ | 02Feb24 | Kent

[qaz123]

Highway guardrails may be no match for heavy electric vehicles (EVs), preliminary test results released Thursday suggest, raising concerns about the nation’s roadside safety system.

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Midwest Roadside Safety Facility ran a crash test examination using a nearly four-ton 2022 Rivian R1T.

When the pickup truck crashed through a metal guardrail and barely slowed down before hitting a concrete barrier, it reportedly came as little surprise to the researchers.

[Alberta's Child]

Then pretend that guard rail is a parked car or a t-boned vehicle in an intersection.

There's absolutely no reason to pretend anything. The University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Midwest Roadside Safety Facility should run a crash test using a 2022 Rivian R1T and a parked car or a vehicle in an intersection instead of a guide rail.

This just another example added to the long list of reasons why not to own an EV.

Of course. Let's worry about the safety of an 8,000-lb. pickup truck vs. a 5,000-lb. pickup truck ... when the heaviest vehicle motorists encounter on our roads without an overweight permit is an 80,000-lb. tractor-trailer combination truck. /sarcasm off/

[Hot Tabasco]

2022 Rivian R1T

That video is spot on. You're not going to see a standard Ford F150 go thru a guard rail then cement barriers like that. That's an $86,000, virtue signaling piece of crap that you certainly won't see on construction work sites.....

Show me the distance stats of an EV truck hauling a fifth wheel camper with an average weight of 13,000 lbs.

[Alberta's Child]

That video is spot on. You're not going to see a standard Ford F150 go thru a guard rail then cement barriers like that.

In order for a test like that to be meaningful, it has to show a comparison between the "EV" version of the F-150 and the "standard" F-150.

You're making a statement that isn't supported by the evidence shown in this video that you're claiming is "spot on."

[Hot Tabasco]

You're making a statement that isn't supported by the evidence shown in this video that you're claiming is "spot on."

No I'm not, you're attempting to support an EV industry that has proven to fail again and again and again. And this video is just more evidence of how the additional weight of these pieces of crap will cause more substantial damage in crashes than a typical gas vehicle.

Nice try tho.....

However, since you obviously support the EV industry, how about addressing my post #22?

[Alberta's Child]

I don't support the EV industry at all. I wouldn't buy one of them at gunpoint. I have no idea why you would make yourself look foolish by leaping to a conclusion like that.

Show me the distance stats of an EV truck hauling a fifth wheel camper with an average weight of 13,000 lbs.

An EV pulling a 13,000-lb. fifth-wheel camper probably has a battery range of about 50 miles. I have never heard of anyone using an EV to tow anything, let alone a 13,000-lb. trailer ... which means I'll never be asked to design a new guide rail to deal with such a thing.

You inadvertently revealed how silly your original comment about the 8,000-lb. EV F-150 was, though. If the weight of an EV pickup truck is such a problem that we need to redesign guide rails to deal with them, then why are ANY pickup trucks pulling 13,000-lb. campers even allowed on our roads?

[Hot Tabasco]

f the weight of an EV pickup truck is such a problem that we need to redesign guide rails to deal with them, then why are ANY pickup trucks pulling 13,000-lb. campers even allowed on our roads?

How long have EV vehicles, especially the more advanced pickups been on the road to force new studies into improved impact resistant guard rails?

This has nothing to do with guard rails bro, this has everything to do with the additional damage that EV's with the additional battery weight will cause in vehicular collisions...

That lesson obviously went right over your head.

Now go to bed

[Alberta's Child]

This has nothing to do with guard rails bro, this has everything to do with the additional damage that EV's with the additional battery weight will cause in vehicular collisions...

I don't know where the hell you came up with that. I don't know what YOU are talking about, but I'm just looking at the headline at the top of the freaking thread here:

Watch: Testing Suggests Highway Guardrails No Match for Heavy EVs

LOL.

[T.B. Yoits]

The term guardrail came from the railroad industry, as seen in Patent 522038A from 1894 and was used for roadways until the lawyers steered toward the term guiderail because it turns out they often don't do the proper job of guarding.

The term guardrail is still in use:

https://kp.uky.edu/knowledge-portal/articles/guardrail/

Midwest Guardrail System:
https://mwrsf.unl.edu/mgs.php
"MGS (Midwest Guardrail System), which has redefined the entire W-beam guardrail industry and is recommended by the Federal Highway Administration"

From the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) and the Federal Highway Administration (FHA) and the Transportation Research Board (TRB) National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 350.
https://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/nchrp/nchrp_rpt_350-a.pdf "Full-scale impact testing has been and will continue to be the most common method of evaluating the safety performance of guardrails, median barriers, bridge railings, crash cushions, breakaway supports, truck-mounted attenuators, work zone traffic control devices, and other hardware.