The crumple zone in this case is shared between both vehicles (for their impact they are considered one object) and it's the initial impulse that kills people (this decreases drastically as long as the crumple zones keep deforming)... Through conservation of momentum, we know that the Smart car isn't experiencing a…

9. Overclocking.

6. Thermal paste.

5. The thing you need but don't have.

The small offset crash test results for small cars was pretty poor... because all of those cars were near the end of their respective generations (Fit included).

This will never happen in Texas, but if everyone drove similarly sized vehicles (that are smaller than F250s) it would also improve the situation. The issue with the bigger trucks is that while they have more mass (which helps you win out in the conservation of momentum sweepstakes vs. a smaller car), if you hit…

It may, but it depends on whether Smart can actually decelerate the occupants more gently (i.e. collapsing steering wheel and/or engine).

No. The initial impact causes the most G-loading, after that everything is downhill on the G-meter.

Technically no car is designed to crash "at highway" speeds. IIHS has some of the most stringest test requirements in the world, and they test at 40 mph.

They're going to have both interfaces. Since all they do is run on top of QNX... owned by BlackBerry.

This is crazy. With your logic, it means that anyone who wants to smear another person can easily accuse that person of rape; and because statistically only 1 in 13 people are proven to make false accusations, you can automatically "consider" that the person did in fact commit rape? This is dangerous.

We're all laughing now, but how many Jalops would end up as a statistic

I don't know how or why the hell you're talking about immigrants, but clearly this man WASN'T taken care of by his family.

It's not. But it's also a rather good point. For his safety and everyone else's safety, he should not be driving. Nothing to do with being a prick.

The problem is that in race car design, every propulsion unit is designed as a stressed member. In fact, for something like a motorcycle or some race cars, removing the engine would literally involve breaking the vehicle in half. In the case of electric vehicles, the component likely to be built around is in face the…

When I was in Switzerland, I saw this happening quite often, even amongst the locals, which really puzzled me. I had our rental car all the way down to 2nd gear and still had to tap the brakes occasionally.

stop it white man, you're making my head hurt!

Yes but emissions wise, they're actually worse than your average North American car. If 2-stroke scooters are banned and catalytic converters required on all scooters, you'd significantly clean the air up.

People living in Tokyo still own cars, at least the ones with better income. The difference is that they are driving 660cc kei-cars for the most part. There are times when it's significantly more convenient to have your own personal transport, especially if you're in an area not serviced by an immediate high traffic…

So why is Amsterdam still dirty? Granted, Amsterdam is and will probably never be as dirty as Paris, but it's still worse than the majority of German cities.