Smart Car 70MPH Impact into Concrete

Most likely fatal for the driver. Notice 1:47 into the film they show how far the steering column has penetrated into the cabin.

In my opinion, while the roll cage was effective in maintaining its shape, there simply isn't enough material in the car to dissapate the energy slow enough. I could be wrong.

The concern should be how other cars fare hitting the same barrier at the same speed.

Already been done ad nausium.

That was on youtube ages ago... I think fifth gear may have had something to do with it

Something about the title of this blog disturbs me..."Smart" car 70 mph impact into concrete? If it was so smart, wouldn't it have collision avoidance systems???

Sometimes, ending it all is the smart thing to do. ;-)

They should have put a crash test dummy in to show how it would impact a driver.

ChazL

Wher are the enviromentalists and car saftey people on this? Seems we should be moving to eliminate concrete from the planet right now!!!!

Welcome aboard! I didn't see ANY damage to the concrete barriers. Maybe the truly smart alternative is to make concrete cars?

Odd we test cars with the best case scenarios but we test every thing else with worst or normal case scenarios.

No contents, no passengers, no multi vehicles.

The cage did seem to handle the cars mass well and the steering column may have been collapsible from a persons weight. I noticed no air bags.

Put the same car in a rear end from a pickup with another car 5 foot in front and see what happens at 35.

I've been in a what would be now a full sized car when struck at 50mph from behind by a loaded pickup. our seats failed and our backs have never been the same.

Brad

Will they even do 60mph ?

People who drive them here love them.