Smart Car Crash Test
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- čas přidán 11. 06. 2014
- It's #ThowbackThursday! the gang decide to crash test the Smart Car. With an NCAP rating of 3 out of 5 stars can the little compact withstand a 70mph crash into re-enforced concrete barriers?
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Having been a paramedic I'll tell you this right now just being able to open the doors will save you 20 to 30 minutes on that golden hour when trying to extract. That's one little amazing car when it comes to safety
Except you'd be dead
@@jayshields1234 Most crashes won't be at 110km/h
@@jayshields1234well, good thing we got long term statistics now.
It is easy to total it since they are Mercedes. But I can always count on a good door!
I totalled mine going from 30 to 0 in one second. Parked car, totally my fault. Still drove the few blocks home before it was declared a total loss.
No, it isn't.
7:13 the most insane crew ever, riding in a top down Peugeot while it is raining
That’s definitely an illegal fire hazard.
It's honestly impressive how well the steel cage handled the wreck... But it's also pointless. It's like the medieval suits of armor. If you had the best steel plating of the day, but the padding underneath couldn't soften the blow enough, the blade wouldn't need to penetrate to kill you. Your car may be fine after the wreck but your internal organs sure as hell won't be.
+Cole Cooper Thanks for restating what was already said in the video.
+Purrpetuity do you use an extra large nozzle when you douche?
what kind of insult is that
But it has airbags, so here you have your padding!
@@Purrpetuity lol he wanted to sound smart ?
A friend of mine crashed headon with a Smart 3 months ago and she got lucky that she hit an incoming Renault 19 which has a very deformable front.The crash has been with around 50km/h for the smart and 30-40km/h for the Renault (impact speeds in the final police report wiaht a speed limit 80km/h in the area).The Renault front was melted down to the windshield with driver and front passenger getting out intact.The smart had all plastics on the front smashed but the steel structure specially the beam in front of the radiator was almost intact (even the radiator was in one piece without a leak) there was a small visibile defomation on the driver side roof beam.She sustained damage to her left lung and her right hand got wounded.The lung from the seatbelt and the very rapid stop of the smart itself sustained trauma and the hand from some flying plastics from the dashboard.So at the end yes the smart has a very rigid body but in the mean time it is very dangerous cause in a case of a crash the car shell is not dissipating any energy which means that the passangers are sustaining much higher forces which can result to a deadly internal organs damage.She spend a month in a hospital and she is almost OK now but no more small cars.They are really dangerous at speeds exceeding 50km/h.
+ukrasa
Thank you. This is exactly what interests me: the so called second and third impacts. I'm disappointed that Fifth Gear just briefly touched on the subject, as this is what really separates these compact cars from the larger models.
+pesshau Agreed, but on the upside, atleast the smart won't accordion into nothing and crush, mangle your body into ground beef like everyone loves to say about it. Dangerous, still yes, but not in the way people love to believe.
This is why my 17 year old son drives a Ford SMax, even has a knee airbag. I know he’s a good driver for his age but I’d rather he be in something with more crumple zones
I rent my FORD F-150
JK I DON'T DRIVE
Yes it s true this
Lets see a side impact...
+Average Dave it would become a bowling ball
+Average Dave side impact is always bad
not matter if Smart or any other car
+Mekidelaro Its not always bad. You just need a roll-cage. :P
LBPPlayer7
you would most likely smack your head on everything if it was just a roll cage.
Here you go at 2:10 watch?v=1CKtxlRRF8U
That's astonishing! I'd have thought that the Smart would just disintegrate on impact but it held up better than I expected
I thought the same but guess they all have to pass safety tests to be allowed on the road.
No matter how strong the car is a person would stop instantly, no crush zone to SLOW your body down.
Yeah a human was not built for this, no matter the year, a 70 mph crash against pure concrete will leave you dead. Difference is a death like this in a modern car can atleast leave medics with their food still in their stomachs.
The test is pretty much worthless without dummys.
+⚛ U Wot M8 ⚛ What if you want to buy a car for your daughter that if she drives it 70mph into a concrete barrier and doesn't survive you'll be able to open and close the door to get her corpse out and retrieve something from the glovebox without the need for any tools.
We asked Hillary supporters to participate but they wanted too much money.
pnnorton you will have your legs destroyed tho
8:06 onwards addresses this.
Well they did have to rig up some stuff to allow it to be remotely operated. Not sure if that played into it.
The smart car itself can endure a hard crash, but the driver would get torn in half if the collision was hard enough, literally.
Momentum. The car decelerates quicker than the passenger.
Crash at 5:00
Dennizzz119 thx
How much speed was there?
МВ это мощь. Малыш вообще огонь.
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thx!!
Glad to hear the follow up to that. Was going to mention that, although the Smart car held up, I highly doubt the g forces would allow any passengers to survive. Good video
"Speed has never killed anyone. Suddenly becoming stationary, that's what gets you!"
Not even sudden acceleration?
its the sudden deceleration that kills... smart car or not, it all depends on the speed
G FORCES
madhatten00 in the words of jesse G FORCES BITCH
***** thats funny, yes I do drive presidential 8 ton car on daily basis just for that reason
That G force is a murder xD...
***** So with a S-Class I shouldn't drive in the city because it was designed for long stretches on the freeway surely?
Wow! That litter bugger took quite a punch! The cage of the car was pretty well intact!
The biggest limiting factor in all of this winds up coming right back to the human element in the end.
Fascinating
When there is no crumple zone, YOU are the crumple zone.
No, the opponent is the crumble zone.
The Smart drills itself in the other vehicle.
So a good idea to stay away from trees.
I don't understand why they still crash test at only 40mph. The motorway speed in the UK is on average between 60-70mph. THAT'S the speed they should be testing at, or even up to 80mph. What they are currently testing at isn't nearly enough. I don't want to know if I'll survive a 40mph impact, I want to know if I'll survive during a motorway collision. Least if they test at those speeds you're pretty much guaranteed to survive at any slower speed.
I think a crash 60-70mph is somewhat too much for your internal organs because decelerating extremely hard from that speed to 0 will kill you, because of the extreme G-Forces exerted on your organs.
The only thing that can give a better chance of survival is hard braking before a collision, or avoiding it if you possibly can.
Hey my friend i wish to inform you that the spead limit in Greek motorway is 120 the maximum but the people goes always more for example 160 and many 200 or more thats because the law don't ban them so they always going too fast but they good is that Greece havn't much accidents every year.... never mind.... so.. should they test 200 miles? i think that they wouldn't find the smart in 200 kl/m per hour.
Xristos Koukoumis I'm not surprised. Germany's autobahns also have some of the world's lowest accident rates despite the fact that certain sections have no speed limit.
D13H4RD2L1V3 i Don't know why but Greeks are the worst drives in roads against the law but the are so experienced so the accidents i think are low but i can see that the new generation drivers are so good and polite in roads hah and by the way yesterday i found a wallet with 30 euros and 1 phone and some cards and i wait the mobile phone to rang and anwsered and finally i managed to speak with the owner and met him somewhere in my town and he was very pleased then he gave me 20 euros ;)
crashes don't occurat 70 mph. On the highway there is nothing for you to hit directly at 70 mph. unless you were driving at 100mph., people hit the brakes before they crash. And if they did test at 70 mph. it would be nearly impossible for any car to pass since the passenger(s) would most certainly die
I love how all the white paneling just flies off on impact.
DestructoGuy17 It looks oddly satisfying LOL
+DestructoGuy17 Yet, it´s not structural, it´s only decoration.
Big plus (for me, tho) is that you can play around with different colored panels.
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Yep as a former racer in motogp style racing, those accident hurt but you keep moving forwards. If you come to a stop fast its well known the force of your organs moving forwards will KILL you.
1. Found this cool.
2. Those freezes at 2:40 killed me xD
if u want legs after a crash don't take smart!
WorldFuckStar that's why it's called a dumb car
No, it's called a smart car.
WorldFuckStar B.
Jordan Stoesz
WorldFuckStar
If Smart and Cadillac worked together to create a giant car that is the strength of the small one, they would have a car that’s literally a GOD!
I'm glad you compared with an older micro car. I know so many people where I'm from that laugh at Smart cars and say how unsafe they are and then go get in their Geo Metro.
It's funny that the Smart still had its dashboard light and interior light on. It survived woho
Hopefully you survive, not the car!
Why own a super car when you can own a smart car
Juniorr Rey SMART car is the UPER car for GAS MPG!
Mcquin
Juniorr Rey Why isn't "smartcar" an official term yet?
And your garrunted to die in. A smart car the first time you crash it😉☺
Mikey Lovejoy Jr. People who say this are usually chicken shits or terrible drivers. Any car at 70mph toward a concrete barrier is going to kill most passengers, truck, suv, etc. So don't drive into one...
Great classic clip, Fifth Gear. If you're retesting the Smart fortwo, can you also do a small overlap crash test similar to the IIHS?
Well, to go from 70mph (~31 ms-1) to 0 in one second there would be a force of 2503 N inflicted upon an 80kg human, which is 255 G. That is almost definitely going to kill you. (I know I've made a lot of assumptions in this model, but the point stands - you would die even if the car did not)
Somehow I can't stop laughing after hearing the pronunciation of the moderator for the word "und".
+Barrel Portrait oond.
+Sweet Prince So what would be the correct way this German word should be pronounced?
***** The way he pronounced it, it sounds like "ünd". Type the word in on Google Translate and use the listen feature.
+Sweet Prince So how do you think he *should* pronounce this German word?
BaddaBigBoom Again, it is pretty much impossible to explain the pronunciation of a word in a text. Just type in "und" on any online translator that has a text to speech option.
Never knew Smart Car bodywork was made of eggshell.
The colored body panels on the smart are actually a composite material and are designed to be removable and replaceable without a whole lot of work. They shatter in a major crash but metal panels would also be just as destroyed in the end on any car.
Bodywork of all vehicles - and especially the smart car - are designed to deform, fly apart and break on impact. The more the outside of the car falls apart on impact the more impact energy is taken away from the driver and passengers inside the car. That's why F1 crashes always look so terrible - almost the entire vehicle is designed to completely disintegrate upon impact leaving only the survival monocoque intact and undamaged.
Another thing to consider: Force = (mass X acceleration) On impact you are going to combine the forces of the two objects, and with a smaller mass the acceleration (deceleration) you experience will be greater, so with a much smaller mass than virtually every car on the road you will be taking on a much larger force on any impact. There is simply not enough room for the adequate crumple zones that would be needed to make up the difference.
Since F=MA applies to the mass of the vehicle, not the practically immovable concrete block, a lighter car will experience less force for the same (massive) deceleration.
But you’re right about the lack of size/room for crumple zones
@@Pikestnt the smart car basically uses the crumple zone of the car it hits
This would be a fatality in almost all cars in my opinion, not so much because of the damage, but the sudden change in the direction, you'd be better off hitting it straight on. I tow cars and the worst ones are usually broadside hits because of the obvious lack of protection of the doors, and next its these "corner" hits, usually a head on from someone crossing a highway median and being just a bit off center with each other. There is really no protection in the corner by the A pillar, you're basically in between the curtain airbag, if it has one and the main airbag.
I think in case of smart there's high chance of the frame actually taking most of the side impact actually since it's so short
Who else was surprised how well the little Smart did?
Moto HQ wanna be friend?
the shell survived, but the interior of the smart literally exploded. did you see those shards of plastic everwhere? i would not want to crash that at any speed XD
Well. I am stunned.. It is actually pretty impressive
1:55 - Hindered a rescue attempt, you could probably push that thing over!
as they did
nn ghu
2:00 The Smart Car being in "one piece" doesn't mean much. At one point stack car racers were getting killed in crashes that hardly hurt the car. It was realized it was the strength of the car doing the killing.
The cars were so tough that the drivers were experiencing accelerations higher that their bodies could survive. That is why race cars these days fly apart when the crash. All that crumpling is lowering the accelerations on the people in the car.
They spent thousands of dollars doing this test and they didn't even bother to do a G force rating on the crash test dummies?? What a waste. You don't even need expensive sensors or the like.... the G force rating sensors are literally stickers you slap on the dummy and they break under load.
+atomgonuclear There were no test dummies and it wasn't to see if the occupants would survive but to see how the car would hold up.
At 70 mph you wouldnt have survived in such a nut, so why even bother?
+bbqBaconNinja No intelligent person cares how the car holds up. That has never been the point of crash testing.
people survive crashes like this all the time, they just sustain injuries. the point of this crash was not to test g forces, it was to test how sturdy the steel shell of the smart car actually was. it is touted as being incredibly solid, and this test showed it. if the floor pan and kick panel of the car would have been as solid as the frame, the interior would not have deformed as bad as it did. comparing it to the corsa, it did very well as far as not tweaking and squishing.
+aluisious the point of this test was indeed to see how it held up. they wanted to see how much it gave, or didnt give, in an extreme crash. did you not listen to the narration the entire time? they stated exactly what they were doing and why, and it is the exact opposite of your comment.
Fantastic video from the fantastic FIFTH GEAR!
They should run the Smart car into a concrete barrier at 120 miles an hour
like that ford
+Tashigoo Games ya the focus?
+Silas McGee yeah and the fiesta
Silas McGee most can't go that fast
They should do a test at 50 mph, and a test at 100 mph, just like the Mythbusters test, in addition to launching a rocketsled into it as well as obliterating it.
who else is watching this because there is no top gear anymore?
me
+Keil Gilby oh
+Keil Gilby is the new top gear on TV yet
this 5th Gear is an Alternative of Top Gear
Mohamed Alhatimy there is grand tour
You wouldn't have any legs after the smart car crash
if your lucky you will have at least one or a half of one
it won't touxh ur legs
you'd be lucky to be alive in such a crash in any street car
Could use the rear bumper panel from the smart, looked to be in still good condition?
Yeah, people often forget that no matter how safe of deforming a car is, it didn't matter if the speed is so high that people can't survive.
So satisfying to watch that crash over and over and over again...
Crashing in an ambulance is the best as it would just take you straight to hospital..lol
Great show!!!
Somewhere there is an insurance company out there saying "no problem, we'll get it fixed for you"
byebye legs for the driver...
Look, they finally found a practical use for this car!
Lt. Dan approves of the Smart Car's front impact crash test.
The steering wheel would have crushed the drivers chest...
A very unsafe car!
That's why they made a new for two and for four with longer front
The concrete was tilted from the start, the momentum of the collision was moved along that tilt.
very rarely would you ever hit a road barrier head on.
thank you very much
your video was very useful to me
thanks alot
I respect that at the end they admited that the passengers would be dead, if not sevearly injured
My left ear enjoys this video ...
You need to buy new headphones then lol
TangoNation My headphones are fine.
same. my right ear was lonely. and tangonation, everyone is having more audio in the left ear, or less audio in the right ear.
Nope same with mine you just have cheap mono headphones
Real Jorji Costava Nah just had wrong settings in windows.
So would you survive that deceleration? You see, the Smart (and other very short cars) have something important playing against them in safety, and that is deformation distance available in a crash. Basically the hood length and how it is built. The kinetic energy of the vehicle has to dissipate, and a longer hood/trunk (coupled with a good design /controlled deformation) will save lives. When you drive at speed v with a car of mass m, your kinetik energy is roughly E=1/2m*v^2. When you crash (against a fixed object) your body experiences a force F that can be calculated by matching the previous equation with and integrating F*dx over time. So what really matters here is 1) the longer it takes to come to a full stop and 2) the longer the displacement x absorbed by the car’s body and not yours (or dx integrated over time), the safer you tend to be. That’s of course assuming the engine block doesn’t jam into you and you have volume left in the cabin. If you crash against another car, the kinetic energy of both cars are added. Highway 17 in CA used to be one of the most dangerous highways until they added the median. It’s a bit of a disservice to tell folks wow check this out, the Smart comes out intact… ‘cause you know, your brain might well make a splash on the windshield without your head needing to hit it. Sorry that was graphic. Be safe y’all.
Man it's cool that this is the first car video
They should add some kind of suspension at the front that can absorb some of the force in cars.
I never go above 55mph, I'm just not interested in speed. BTW, I'm 38 not 70 years old!
uasuka In the bottom lane? People always generally 55-65 in that lane, 70 in the middle lane and for some reason, 80 or 90 in the top lane, even thought it's for over taking at a max of 70.
Sinky speed doesent kill bad drivers cause accidents people that dont look what so ever while driving 40 miles per hour on the higheway.
ED kratos wat?
Sinky Good for you, just stay out of the left lane.
I tried 60 once and I was bored to death :)
A smart death trap
True.
I’d be worried about getting crunched in between trucks. Never ever would I buy or be SEEN in one tho 😂😂😂
"ok lets get a shot with him pretending to tell them where to put the fucking cinder blocks" TV is funny shit sometimes
These videos really scare me man, I used to love speed.
Why do they call it the "Smart car"? Do they say Mercedes car and Vauxhall car too?
you may survive but you can say goodbye to your legs
0:13 "A couple of big cars" Those ain't what we call big over here this side of the Atlantic. 🤣
A small car on that side is massive to us
There's nothing scientific with test. It's not because the steel cage is relatively fine that the passengers would be fine. In my opinion the passengers in the smart would be greatly injured or dead.
Without test dummies with force sensors, this is entirely pointless. No one gives a shit if the frame of the car is in good condition after a 70 mph crash, if the occupants turn into spoiled pork smashing against the inside of the cage.
My next car is definitely going to be a full size, 5000 pound behemoth. It's bad for the environment but I was rear-ended last week, and next time I'll take the biggest car I can get so it's more their problem instead of mine.
+aluisious Get a Tesla!
So, does the Smart have a drain in the floor for draining out the occupants, or do the EMTs have to remove them with a sponge?
One thing your forgetting...G force or kinetic force will kill faster than the actual crash. so this is really bull but i suppose they dont have to go looking for the bits afterwards if you catch my drift.
When a Truck hits it? no test there? LOL
I was thinking the same thing.
I am sorry but where, on a freeway, would this car hit the temporary wall at a high speed at a 90 degree angle? You should have tried sidesweeping in combination with the crash at a 45 degree angle (obstacle avoidance).
+Pavel Adamek its not a 90 Degree angle its more of a 65, For instance if you have a tire blow out you are going into it at that angle
+Cerberus276Gaming At 45 degree he would actually miss the wall.
Your correct
With these kinds of safety, you won't be crushed in an accident but there's no guarantee that you would survive.
Look how the corsa managed to move the blocks more than the smart possibly because it’s the bigger car
NOOOOO!!! Poor smart! Best car in the world, I love mine so much! ❤
That's it I'm buying one!
The good thing about a Smart is the fact that if it does tip over, someone can tip you back on your wheels.
THAT was impressive.
Infuriating.You need two things to be limited to survive.No.1 A strong cabin that will not allow your body to be hit/impaled/cut etc by anything.The smart car does well here.BUT...You also need to limit the tremendous kinetic energy (deceleration g's) that will tear your insides to pieces.The smart car is appalling here. There is virtually nothing to absorb/limit that energy.So what if the door still works and you're dead because your organs are noting but a blob of jell/liquid and your brain is, well, you get the point...Do they think everyone is really that stupid?Idiots...
+Brad Smith Exactly my thoughts!
Setting aside your uncalled for personal insult, what does "Isn't even meant to be driven on the highway" even mean?
Where does the manufacturer make that claim? They don't.
It IS legal for highway use and they can be seen doing so all the time.
You admit it cannot deal with high speed impacts, so it would appear you agree but cannot bring yourself to do so for whatever reason.
Again, they ARE LEGAL for highway use and the manufacturer and all government agencies allow their continued use on highways.
If you believe they cannot deal with highway speeds, do you not agree, people should: 1: Be made clearly aware of this limitation and
2: They should be legally restricted from doing so?
The video implies it is a safe vehicle on impact at high speed but is severely flawed in its testing criteria.
People could well be killed believing, falsely, they are safe at speed when they are clearly not so.
THAT is infuriating...
+Loppysaurus rex Where did I say it "wasn't made for the city?" Where did I say that? Please point that out to me?If the manufacturer approves it for highway use then people will OBVIOUSLY believe it must be safe to do so. Why can't you grasp that.My whole point was the measure they used in the video is DANGEROUSLY misleading.The ability of a cars structure to retain its shape in a collision is only one of two criteria required to survive an impact.The "smart car" (Whatever that means) fails miserably in its ability to absorb kinetic energy and therefore dissipate lethal acceleration forces.And who cares about cars from the 90's? You might as well comparet cars from the 1920's.It is dangerous when journalists create these videos without consulting engineers familiar with all aspects of inertial forces and there effects on the human body.
I hired one for a holiday and drove it up and down England. It does motorways as well as any other car.
On the other hand, the Smart does a reasonable amount of crumpling before the energy hits the Tridion. And if it was a Fiat Seicento/Renault Twingo/other 90s city car, the cabin would have been literally squished, which is even worse.
Cute little car.
Nice slow-mo there Gav
Clarkson, May and Hammond Rulezz
Pretty surprising actually. I won't be talking crap about that car.
I always find Smart Car's as Death Trap's...
Your organs liquefy and every bone in your body breaks the nanosecond the Smartcar runs out of crumple zone. Marvelous.
Crash! Bang! Wallop! What a videooooo
The gforces probably would've killed the driver on impact
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You can't really visibly determine how safe a car is, or well, only you can but only to some extent. Crumpling is good, it's by design.
I like smart to crashing in one or speeding in one seems so dangerous tho seeing hit at 70km/h to 0. Maybe if deaccelerating a bit slower a little bit make a difference. I still rather get a yaris.
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The smart car is built by Mercedes
And swatch
3:55 I can't ever focus on anything else but the chest injury whenever I see a Smart in the street.
That’s a giant air bag in front of you
Hasn't there been research done on the correlation between how high the rear wheels leave the ground during an accident and the amount of vibrating Force done on the occupants lower spines.
3 out of 5 in NCAP is a shit result
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Well, it's good for a teeny car, besides, this was originally an old video, so crash tests back in the 2000s can't be the greatest in the world
Anyone here on 2024?
1:56 I'm sure that the front left shock apsorver in the S_class has been damaged
My left ear enjoyed this video
Zero the Wanderer boom deaf
This stupid cart is not really a smart car. Gimmicks.