It appears the passenger compartment may have held up okay. Yet, with this kind of violent collision, had there been any occupants in the vehicle they may not have survived.
120 kph is 74.5 miles per hour! Even if you are driving 80 miles per hour one second of hard braking (w/abs) brings your speed down to less than 50mph. This would be a horrible wreck in any Car ever made.
For those who think this is bad, just imagine how back in the 50s in America when people first used Cars Commercially, people would die daily across the US at speeds of just 50-60 Kmph because of them just getting launched at their full Metal steering wheel that would carve its shape into their chests, and worse and those werent even instant stop crashes(And i think more than half of them didnt die on impact but rather from the fatal injuries they received moments to even minutes later), those were highway Crashes. So just imagine how within half a second or half of this video, you would be dead before you could even think about it unless you are so extremely unlucky that you remain alive and conscious for a few more seconds after it only because your head barely survives the Crash, before then dying from your Extreme injuries. So uhm yeah remember to drive safe. ^^
@Spotty1125 Actually my point is that many people immediately assume that this car sucks without knowing that it is happening at 120km/h. Any decent car will have this outcome at 120km/h.
Actually I remember reading somewhere recently that 60mph-0 almost instant deceleration alone is enough to kill most people. The actual impact would kill 100%. When IIHS tests cars at 40mph, they are testing for legal highway speed crash. If you are doing 70mph and you see that you are about to hit something, you press the brake, A second later yu are hopefully doing 40mph If you were to be asleep when you hit a concrete barrier head on at 70mph, you dead. Same as if you were to crash at 100mph+
@SwiftHDX Uhm, no. The wall is a static obstacle, therefore pretty much ALL the force is dissipated upon the car. Two cars crashing at 60 kph OTOH share the distributed force (depending on their mass).
Where the mistake occurs is looking at energy. As both cars impact the energy from the movement causes deformation in the other cars. As both cars deform they deform due to the energy in the other car. If one car was undeformable then the damage to the other car would be equal to it's own energy and the energy of the other car. However this doesn't occur as cars are inherently squishy, so twice the speed gives twice the deformation shared between 2 cars, or the same as 1 car hitting a wall. Cool
YES, if you do some research, there are quite a lot of chinese cars now getting better and better. Many of them hire engineer from audi, nmw, porsche or merc to make the car.
Barriers are relatively new to f1. In the 70s and 80s there were only concrete walls around the tracks. Cars were not as safe as they are today, and there were a lot of high speed crashes. Anyway, the point is that crashes at 100 km/h do not necessarily kill you. That speed do not cause inmediate death due to internal injuries. Thats all. Of course is not the same to crash at 100 km/h in an f1 car, than in a tank or in 50s car. Regards
Last time I checked, there were no concrete walls sat in the middle of motorways upon which there is zero time to brake and arrest at least some of the vehicle's velocity of 70mph in a certain direction... the worst case scenario is 0% visibility upon approach to a deformable line of stationary cars stuck in a queue, and if one were to travel at the ludicrous speed of 70mph during this event, it will hit deformable cars and absorb at least 50% more of the energy (if there was only 1 car).
yes but a moose is 800lbs so it probably didn't have enough energy to stop a volvo. There was a study done, and it showed that at 45mph-0, survival rate is 15%. 45mph is about highway speed, because if you are doing 70mph and you hit the brakes, a few seconds later your are hopefully doing 30-40mph or something. But if you hit a wall with a car at 50mph and up, you are dead, 100% chance. Doesn't matter what car you have. Force of the instant stop is enough to tear your internals= death
The best way to make a car safe at this speed is figuring out a way to buy time in the deceleration. More seconds it takes to get to zero from 120kph, the higher the chance of survival.
you can no way survive to a 120km/h crash. the chances are 2: Without seatbelts: you fly through the windshield and reduce yourself to a mush on the wall or whatever you crashed on. With seatbelts: you get split in half or your organs will implode. Doesn't care how strong the car is, the deceleration is too high.
i was just about to say that. Any sort of 70mph-0 instant stop is way more than enough to kill any human, or other animal for that matter. You would probably rip the internal organs apart on the inside.
Not really. it may put a lot of force into your neck, that can kill you. But a 70 kmph crash doesnt destroy your internal organs. Think about all f1 drivers that would die if a 70 kpmh was fatal, as all their crashes are at speeds over 100kmph. In a street car, the seat belt may make too much pressure on your chest, or may be the airbag can hurt you, may be your neck can suffer injuries but definitly not always fatal.
@Watcher3223 absolutely yes!! small cars are ugly and unconfortable, because they're buy-price is very low, and manufacturers must economize the cost of production using substandard materials, like rigid plastics for interiors, or reducting the passive safety, like airbags, esp and so on... i love american cars, because there're wider, larger and nicer than small cars, and, for me, american's sedan are the best in the world :)
wow, it doesn't look too bad actually! The A coloumn is still more or less intact and the fact that the back is coming up so much is actually a very good sign as it's transfering energy into potential energy. What brand is that?
That's because they have more safety features in their cars and around the tracks which are not applicable for everydays' life. For example helmets, the HANS system, a carbon fiber monocoque and highly deformable barriers (softer than guard rails) around the racing tracks.
There is a point when you internal organs can't take the deceleration and they just tear and start bleeding. See fifth gear test of smart car at 70mph. The smart car was fine but the occupant would of been dead due to this fact. You can't overcome the simple laws of physics - faster you go and the quicker you stop the more the tearing force.
it's not really instant stop. as the crumbling of the car reduces the energy by huge amounts.. but still you are screwed either way.. if the impact injuries wont kill you the brain damamge aint worth it.. at 120kmph + I think I would prefer if the front seat was where the front wheel is (mashed)
@workshop77777 looks like vw passat or bora (jetta) up front and wierd seat/audi/(hyundai?) coming to the rear... maybe seat exeo? (spanish vw jetta (audi A4) - the same chassis)
@Archer28M : You abuse me yet you have misunderstood me. I was pointing out that if this much damage could be caused by an impact at about half the car's rated max speed, then it's worth thinking about that before putting your foot down. I don't need a lecture on the bleeding obvious.
@Watcher3223 yes, as a matter of fact i was talking about my favorite kind of car, and your tastes about cars is similar to mine :) but i prefer the look of american 80s car :) i also like the new chrysler 300c... nice look ;) in my country this car is called "lancia thema"... i prefer the first generation of the italian lancia thema, but this car isn't too bad :)
3º rule from Newton, action vs reaction, if a car at 120 km/h hits a wall, the wall will apply a -120 km/h equivalent force to the car, in order to keep the static position. So, if a car comes on the opposite side at 120 km/h, the forces would be the same because the other car is not static. Is my thought wrong? It's only a guess! If anyone could explain better, I'm a lawyer, not a physicist! =P
Following Newton's 3rd Law, every action has it's reaction which neutralises the action. If 2 cars, both driving 120 crash together, the force of impact for both is 120 kph. As for the passengers, that's another story.
Interesting. I was in a parked compact car when a drunk SUV driver veered off the road and hit me from behind. The rear half of my car was crushed. I was okay, but if I had no headrest I'd be in a wheelchair now. The drunk bastard only had a broken nose.
That's not correct. The speed of both cars won't be added, because each car got it's own deformation and energy reducing. It's like a wall at the position the cars touch each other. But that only appears if both cars got the same weight.
Now that's impressive. But I would not think that is something that can regularly happen when cars crash at 70+ MPH speeds. Like chances of surviving is under 1%
but, a sensible speed during this situation, which most people with half a brain would realise would be about 30-40mph maximum in thick fog, hitting the deformable cars at that speed is a scenario in which all occupants (if in a modern, safe vehicle) could simply brush the airbag dust off and walk away. But in most situations, there's braking time and it's car to car, rather than car to non-deformable wall. Which is why tests like this are unrealistic.
You are quite mistaken there. We're not talking regular race crashes where cars would hit each other or drift into the walls in curves or colliding sideways. And yes, back in the 70s and 80s a lot of racedrivers had severe injuries or even died on the tracks just from these "harmless" crashes. We're talking head on crash into an immobile object, thats almost instant decelleration (to 0 in about .1 seconds). Up from 100 KMPH no car and no safty equipment will save you, you're dead.
You know why the car is flying?
It's because all the passengers are going to heaven!
Dont make jokes about religion
@@aaaaaa-vb4ze I'm a free man living in a country with freedom of speech
@@markmd9
Freedom has limits and when you invent jokes related to God and the heaven and the fire, you exceeded these limits and you have to stop
@@aaaaaa-vb4ze no, speech should not have limits.
To limit speech is to limit thinking.
@@markmd9 There is a right and a wrong, and if speaking badly about your father is wrong, how can you speak badly about God?
legends says that the car still never came down.
HaroOn Ops lol. nice one
LOL I just thought "Legend says the car is still going upwards" ... then read your comment haha
It appears the passenger compartment may have held up okay. Yet, with this kind of violent collision, had there been any occupants in the vehicle they may not have survived.
120 kph is 74.5 miles per hour! Even if you are driving 80 miles per hour one second of hard braking (w/abs) brings your speed down to less than 50mph. This would be a horrible wreck in any Car ever made.
Abs doesn't really effect your breaking time if you are a compotent driver.
@@ugursonmez294 Noone will brake optimally if something like this happens. Only the ABS will.
For those who think this is bad, just imagine how back in the 50s in America when people first used Cars Commercially, people would die daily across the US at speeds of just 50-60 Kmph because of them just getting launched at their full Metal steering wheel that would carve its shape into their chests, and worse and those werent even instant stop crashes(And i think more than half of them didnt die on impact but rather from the fatal injuries they received moments to even minutes later), those were highway Crashes. So just imagine how within half a second or half of this video, you would be dead before you could even think about it unless you are so extremely unlucky that you remain alive and conscious for a few more seconds after it only because your head barely survives the Crash, before then dying from your Extreme injuries. So uhm yeah remember to drive safe. ^^
sounds delicious
@Spotty1125 Actually my point is that many people immediately assume that this car sucks without knowing that it is happening at 120km/h. Any decent car will have this outcome at 120km/h.
Actually I remember reading somewhere recently that 60mph-0 almost instant deceleration alone is enough to kill most people. The actual impact would kill 100%. When IIHS tests cars at 40mph, they are testing for legal highway speed crash. If you are doing 70mph and you see that you are about to hit something, you press the brake, A second later yu are hopefully doing 40mph If you were to be asleep when you hit a concrete barrier head on at 70mph, you dead. Same as if you were to crash at 100mph+
@Archer28M You are correct in saying that cars need to absorb crashes, but lady Diana died from not wearing a seat belt.
@SwiftHDX Uhm, no. The wall is a static obstacle, therefore pretty much ALL the force is dissipated upon the car. Two cars crashing at 60 kph OTOH share the distributed force (depending on their mass).
120km/h~75mph
And 0,097 MACH or 63 knots also, if you want funny units.
Legend says, to this day, the car is still in the air..
when you realize the car stopped in barely half a second....
Where the mistake occurs is looking at energy. As both cars impact the energy from the movement causes deformation in the other cars. As both cars deform they deform due to the energy in the other car. If one car was undeformable then the damage to the other car would be equal to it's own energy and the energy of the other car. However this doesn't occur as cars are inherently squishy, so twice the speed gives twice the deformation shared between 2 cars, or the same as 1 car hitting a wall. Cool
YES, if you do some research, there are quite a lot of chinese cars now getting better and better. Many of them hire engineer from audi, nmw, porsche or merc to make the car.
@mkjjohn Yes, for about 6 years. But this model in Russia is not for sale. Although the promise that it will soon begin selling.
OMG!! The front seat's head rest was pulverized by the steering wheel!
people like this video won't say a F-word, and they like the rigidity of this vehicle!
Check out how the 2012 ford focus took this crashtest. This car did very well.
@zerodoze its KPH, not MPH, so that is equivalent to somewhere around 80 MPH
Barriers are relatively new to f1. In the 70s and 80s there were only concrete walls around the tracks. Cars were not as safe as they are today, and there were a lot of high speed crashes. Anyway, the point is that crashes at 100 km/h do not necessarily kill you. That speed do not cause inmediate death due to internal injuries. Thats all. Of course is not the same to crash at 100 km/h in an f1 car, than in a tank or in 50s car. Regards
No, I'm talking about facts that apply to life. Nobody does 70mph - 0 in a metre, a crash like that is almost non-existent.
I'm surprised it can do 120 km/h.... Oh, wait a minute! It was dragged ))
@Mrmatteo08 yes, but in this very car the engine is now sitting on the driver's/passanger's seat =)
Whats car?
@ThePeki13 it was actually a chinese car but only with 120km/hr chery riich G5
What have we learned from this?
Do not drive into a solid concrete wall at 120km/h
Last time I checked, there were no concrete walls sat in the middle of motorways upon which there is zero time to brake and arrest at least some of the vehicle's velocity of 70mph in a certain direction... the worst case scenario is 0% visibility upon approach to a deformable line of stationary cars stuck in a queue, and if one were to travel at the ludicrous speed of 70mph during this event, it will hit deformable cars and absorb at least 50% more of the energy (if there was only 1 car).
yes but a moose is 800lbs so it probably didn't have enough energy to stop a volvo. There was a study done, and it showed that at 45mph-0, survival rate is 15%. 45mph is about highway speed, because if you are doing 70mph and you hit the brakes, a few seconds later your are hopefully doing 30-40mph or something. But if you hit a wall with a car at 50mph and up, you are dead, 100% chance. Doesn't matter what car you have. Force of the instant stop is enough to tear your internals= death
The best way to make a car safe at this speed is figuring out a way to buy time in the deceleration. More seconds it takes to get to zero from 120kph, the higher the chance of survival.
That's right. However, there were 11 drivers that died in F1 in the 70s and 80s. Since 1994 no one else died.
@ZeppelinerAirways .... uh that would be the same as what you just saw. The wall pushed back with 120kph of force, just like another car would.
better than i expected..
you can no way survive to a 120km/h crash. the chances are 2: Without seatbelts: you fly through the windshield and reduce yourself to a mush on the wall or whatever you crashed on. With seatbelts: you get split in half or your organs will implode. Doesn't care how strong the car is, the deceleration is too high.
i was just about to say that. Any sort of 70mph-0 instant stop is way more than enough to kill any human, or other animal for that matter. You would probably rip the internal organs apart on the inside.
Cool little car it comes in all wheel drive too.
man I started this video and went to take a shower. By the time I got back, that car was still in the air.
This is scary. I watched plenty of crashes in 65 km/h but I drive 120 much more often than 65. Hit a car in an opposite lane for guranteed death.
@aniblaelas you meant a lot more damaged when it hits a wall? because it doesn't make sense saying that is better hitting a wall than a deformable car
@X0n3 yes, but if you drive with 60km/h with this car, your possibility to death is less than at 120km/h...
Not really. it may put a lot of force into your neck, that can kill you. But a 70 kmph crash doesnt destroy your internal organs. Think about all f1 drivers that would die if a 70 kpmh was fatal, as all their crashes are at speeds over 100kmph.
In a street car, the seat belt may make too much pressure on your chest, or may be the airbag can hurt you, may be your neck can suffer injuries but definitly not always fatal.
@auaumusi nope, look at the door it's 120km/h (kph) = 73mph
Note to self, don't hit immovable object at high speed.
I admit that they are not perfect and we are improving it. However, if a person suck, really nothing much can be done.
Some say that car is still up in the air until this very day..
That was probably hard on the air bag sensors... it might have broke them before they could figure out what was going on.
Well said! Structural integrity just ain't enough.
0:50 like titanic!
Se dice por ahi, que aun desde la fecha de la prueba, ese automovil aun sigue su rumbo hacia las alturas y no ha parado de subir. =P
@Watcher3223 absolutely yes!! small cars are ugly and unconfortable, because they're buy-price is very low, and manufacturers must economize the cost of production using substandard materials, like rigid plastics for interiors, or reducting the passive safety, like airbags, esp and so on...
i love american cars, because there're wider, larger and nicer than small cars, and, for me, american's sedan are the best in the world :)
wow, it doesn't look too bad actually! The A coloumn is still more or less intact and the fact that the back is coming up so much is actually a very good sign as it's transfering energy into potential energy. What brand is that?
Yes. But everyone will certainly be dead from the g-forces.
@jdmderick yeap...but this is a crash test at 120mph... the chinese looks like that in a test at 40mph... think!
That's because they have more safety features in their cars and around the tracks which are not applicable for everydays' life. For example helmets, the HANS system, a carbon fiber monocoque and highly deformable barriers (softer than guard rails) around the racing tracks.
Guys, this is 120 kph!!! Get real. Anything would crumple to a lump.
There is a point when you internal organs can't take the deceleration and they just tear and start bleeding. See fifth gear test of smart car at 70mph. The smart car was fine but the occupant would of been dead due to this fact. You can't overcome the simple laws of physics - faster you go and the quicker you stop the more the tearing force.
@Skampo1119 Yes, but that doesn't mean all crashes happen at 40mph.
it's not really instant stop. as the crumbling of the car reduces the energy by huge amounts.. but still you are screwed either way.. if the impact injuries wont kill you the brain damamge aint worth it.. at 120kmph + I think I would prefer if the front seat was where the front wheel is (mashed)
Кто не заметил, руль дошёл до задних сидений. А приборка до передних
strangely beautiful
@kattilath aaaand looking at it again i might be mistaken... :-/ but it's definitely not a bmw.
Yeah? What do you think their organs, necks, abdomen, thorax, etc. would look like by now?
after tht this car pass for real life test hahahaa
@ZeppelinerAirways It makes no difference if it's 2 cars at 60KPH or 120KPH, it's still going to be the same impact force.
@ZeppelinerAirways No. That's the opposite of what I was saying.
the video in real life time is less than a second, that is scarry
@jdmderick dude its the regular 40 crash test..this is 120mph
I can't believe that back wheel doesn't snap off. U c how far forward its momentum bends it ?
@workshop77777 looks like vw passat or bora (jetta) up front and wierd seat/audi/(hyundai?) coming to the rear... maybe seat exeo? (spanish vw jetta (audi A4) - the same chassis)
My planet needs me.
hey that is not fake, and the body structure is good. But is that the rear seat and the front seat just popped out???
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Helium is a gas. Its lighter then normal air so it rises up. Now look at the back of the car.
Witch car is this???? VW ???
@Archer28M : You abuse me yet you have misunderstood me. I was pointing out that if this much damage could be caused by an impact at about half the car's rated max speed, then it's worth thinking about that before putting your foot down. I don't need a lecture on the bleeding obvious.
It doesn't matter if it's a chinese car, or if it's safe. 120kmph to 0kmph in seconds is fatal.
Looks like that the car could withstand very well despite the speed of the crash. What is the brand/model?
The ASS of the car flew all the way to Mars..
@Watcher3223 yes, as a matter of fact i was talking about my favorite kind of car, and your tastes about cars is similar to mine :)
but i prefer the look of american 80s car :)
i also like the new chrysler 300c... nice look ;)
in my country this car is called "lancia thema"... i prefer the first generation of the italian lancia thema, but this car isn't too bad :)
I don't think anyone would have a big chance of surviving...
@mollis123456 not only chinese car, but also american, japanese and european car become like this one.
Don't be surprised this is a Chinese car. Name is Chery G5.
km/h, it's the unit used in the rest of the world (I mean, not USA)
3º rule from Newton, action vs reaction, if a car at 120 km/h hits a wall, the wall will apply a -120 km/h equivalent force to the car, in order to keep the static position. So, if a car comes on the opposite side at 120 km/h, the forces would be the same because the other car is not static. Is my thought wrong? It's only a guess!
If anyone could explain better, I'm a lawyer, not a physicist! =P
that crash was at 74.5 mph almost 35mph faster then what the IIHS and NHSTA requires in their crast test speeds.
this is at twice the speed of regular frontal crash test.
Sorry dude! We need to wait for it two years from now! The car is in the air yet!
I want this car, at that speed its a 5 star car
Driving at this speed you can´t survive.
@xPhanrisalx it's a chery riich G5
Following Newton's 3rd Law, every action has it's reaction which neutralises the action. If 2 cars, both driving 120 crash together, the force of impact for both is 120 kph. As for the passengers, that's another story.
Interesting. I was in a parked compact car when a drunk SUV driver veered off the road and hit me from behind. The rear half of my car was crushed. I was okay, but if I had no headrest I'd be in a wheelchair now. The drunk bastard only had a broken nose.
That's not correct. The speed of both cars won't be added, because each car got it's own deformation and energy reducing. It's like a wall at the position the cars touch each other. But that only appears if both cars got the same weight.
What car is it???
Now that's impressive.
But I would not think that is something that can regularly happen when cars crash at 70+ MPH speeds.
Like chances of surviving is under 1%
Wow from the looks of the video that car was never gonna come down.
There is nothing confusing. What you think that Km/h means ???
Kmph = Kilometer per hour = Km/h
but, a sensible speed during this situation, which most people with half a brain would realise would be about 30-40mph maximum in thick fog, hitting the deformable cars at that speed is a scenario in which all occupants (if in a modern, safe vehicle) could simply brush the airbag dust off and walk away. But in most situations, there's braking time and it's car to car, rather than car to non-deformable wall. Which is why tests like this are unrealistic.
No, the speed shown in the video was the actual speed :-D
wake me up when this thing lands
You are quite mistaken there. We're not talking regular race crashes where cars would hit each other or drift into the walls in curves or colliding sideways. And yes, back in the 70s and 80s a lot of racedrivers had severe injuries or even died on the tracks just from these "harmless" crashes.
We're talking head on crash into an immobile object, thats almost instant decelleration (to 0 in about .1 seconds). Up from 100 KMPH no car and no safty equipment will save you, you're dead.
@dasautomega the crash caused your organs to crash so the crash does kill you