Posted on 05/29/2009 10:36:55 AM PDT by Wicket
A study of car safety released on Wednesday shows that four of the top-scoring automobiles in tests of five new models were small cars or so-called super-minis — including the Honda Jazz, Hyundai i20, Kia Soul and Peugeot 3008. . .
Seats installed in the Kia Soul, for example, “achieved a good result in the program’s whiplash testing, again revealing that it is not only larger or expensive cars that achieve impressive results in safety.” . . .
It said the Honda Jazz and Hyundai i20 racked up “impressive pedestrian scores”
(Excerpt) Read more at greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com ...
It is propaganda.
I saw a smartcar and a c-class mercedes (the smaller one) hit each other, both going 40 mph (80 mph crash). The smartcar was devastated, it looked like a pinball bouncing off a bumper. So did its crash dummy.
“Maybe it’s me, but I’m kinda more concerned about whether I end up being a car sandwich in a crash.”
Me too. When being tailgated by an SUV, I want to be in a 1 ton truck.
LOL!
What a crock of crap. A portion of the test was how a pedestrian hit by the car would fair. Frankly, I don’t give a rip about the pedestrian. I want to protect me and my family. The two that did the best in “pedestrian” scores performed lower in “Adult” and “Child” scores...
For others, it's all about getting there and enjoying the ride. If I gave more than a rat's keester about crashworthiness, I wouldn't own a motorcycle.
Goebbels would be so proud of our media and how they’re getting themselves properly warmed up for the hardcore propaganda they’ll be spewing soon in support of socialized medicine. They don’t want to pull a muscle at the wrong time.
And the propoganda begins.....heck - if it worked getting obama elected - it will work on getting people to buy soda cans for cars. Me? I’ll keep my 2005, four door, F150 running for as long as I can.
“impressive pedestrian scores”
means
if you crash into a person, the smartcar will probably fare better than the person.
Like others here, I would care how the smartcar fares crashing into an oncoming truck or SUV. Or even midsize car.
“bull”
Mind your tongue son, the article is from the NY Times.
Yeah, if you get hit by a paper airplane.
“impressive pedestrian scores”
Meaning they do less damage to pedestrians. I can see the future insurance reports now: “car totaled due to head on collision with pedestrian.”
Hey now!
The New York Times need not yield to Newtonian physics if it'll obscure their propaganda.
That's power, baby. :o)
Seeing as how The NYT has lost so much of its circulation they can use em (mini cars)in their circulation dept and probably get a subsidy doing so. But will the big burgher go tooling around Manhatten in one might be another matter.
In other words - the cars are so small, pedestrians inflicted more damage on the vehicle than vice versa!
That looks an awful lot like the thing I found stuck up in the wheel well of my truck the other day ...
The propaganda begins . . .
Does that mean that if you crash into a pedestrial, you are less likely to injure them?
Being smaller with a shorter turning radius makes the nimble Fit and spry i20 great in an antipersonnel role.
I've noticed that a lot of "safety" pronouncements are not about the consumer and the impact of their choices on themselves. For example, if you are in an SUV and have an accident, you have a fair chance of coming out OK. But the media says that SUVs are "not safe". Why is that? Well, the guy who bought that other car, the car that just collided with your SUV ... he didn't fare so well. That means your car is not safe.
It's ass-backwards.
Great news! Small cars have great headrests! Do those protect you when you are t-boned by someone going 40?
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