I got t-boned in my old Caprice Classic 10 years ago, right in the driver side door- hard enough to dislodge the side view mirror from the passenger side.
Walked away without a scratch, although I was a bit shook up.
I find it hard to believe that I could have walked away just the same in these new minicars. Just doesn’t seem to match up with the laws of physics that one could be equally safe without 2 tons of steel around you.
Probably because you're not. Are you going to believe the statisticians, or your own lying eyes.
Next time you meet someone who got squished in one of those mousetrap cars...ask them if the 10 or 20 bucks a week they saved in gas made it worthwhile.
No doubt a 2,000 lb car, with the same engineering of a 1000 lb car will handle an accident better. However the engineering in say a 1980s Chevy vs a 2009 Chevy is vastly different when it comes to distribution of forces etc.
Cars being shrunk to micro though just don't have enough room to decelerate, no matter how well engineered from impacts fast enough to protect the occupants from death even if the passenger compartment is largely untouched. For people to survive those types of accidents you would need inertial dampeners, and those only exist in the world of science fiction.