Nasty head-on minivan collision (with my family in the car)

[NganaJHone]

I am very happy to see the vidoe after you give this Nasty head-on minivan collision with my family in the car

[Melehete]

I Love The Video It Can Increase My Knowledge I goddamn worship those Toyota engineers.

[bebeheuy]

Steady I Really Like This Video mph! This is sort of a PSA about safety (and risk assessment--go figure!) because of our experience.

[AntoMelta]

Good, I like that you share this video, I wish success always We're all okay. Relative speed of 70-80 mph! This is sort of a PSA about safety (and risk assessment--go figure!) because of our experience.

[willamricard]

Nice Video That You Share , So Very Nice Thanks You Nasty head-on minivan collision with my family in the car

[imegatrone]

I Really Like The Video From Your mph! This is sort of a PSA about safety (and risk assessment--go figure!) because of our experience

[bundawartini]

Your Video Is Very Useful Sharing mph! This is sort of a PSA about safety (and risk assessment--go figure!) because of our experience.

[byronintegrated]

If you truly cared about the environment you would not be driving a gas guzzling minivan! Your family should of all been riding their bikes so this could not of happened! You don't even drive a Prius for God sakes! I thought you cared, so disappointed in you, also whats with the big house you live in, I can only imagine all that fossil fuel your using to heart your home. Why are you not crammed in a 1bedroom apartment, and why are you reproducing?

I am dismayed, I am joining the Deniers!

[kempfsc]

Simple observation, your experience resulted(at least in part) from of the most common faux pas committed by drivers, i.e. you looked at the passenger while talking to them. How often have you seen this in other drivers, sometimes talking to someone beside them or even in the back seat. Remember, air molecules will vibrate in the necessary fashion for communication whether you are looking at the person or not, i.e. never take your eyes off the road. Glad you're OK. Keep up the great videos. (-;{

[2002films]

Glad you are ok .

[highlanderhybrid]

Idk if thats really too safe considering it was only a miata. What if it had been another Van or even a midsize car.

[LUVMAGNUMGUNS2]

if you did your "normal personality voice" more i could tolerate watching your argument on global warming. so its only an act. thank god cuz i was feeling bad for your wife and kids. i am sorry to see you got in a accident i hope you all get mri scans... no matter what. you may feel fine now but years later you could have problems from an episode like this. i would do stretches and inversion, get a table and do it. you all have absorbed major kinetic energy. sincerely the "king of carwrecks"

[Cannonbo]

correct me if im wrong, but i thought that coming to a sudden stop from 35mph is the same whether you hit a wall or a car coming the other way at the same speed.

[seonfox]

Thank God you and your babies didn't get hurt!!!!!!

[nicolasslonimsky]

I'm having trouble reconciling your description of the accident with your assertion that you are the safest driver you know.

I believe you described the conditions as icy, yet you were traveling 35-40 mph.

Would you recommend to your high school students that they drive at 35-40 mph in icy conditions?

Also: "I turned to my wife . . ." One of the tenets of safe driving is to always keep one's eyes on the road.

80% of drivers describe themselves as better than average.

[minterdt]

good thing your car weighs twice as much as a mazda miata. thats was just as important as having the airbags. 

[philateliceun]

how did the dog survive? There are no dogseatbelts in a toyota are there? Are there.....

[ringlingconspiracy]

im glad you guys are all ok! and my mom has one of those vans!

[holyphantomcow]

Give this guy a break about Global warming it won't happen in 2-3 years from when he made the argument about it. If it was going to change that fast we would be dead by now or well on the way. We are talking somewhere around 2034... By the way meeting out energy demands with wind and solar will help lower energy costs overtime so even if it's not true it still helps us create cheaper energy! Overpopulation is inevitable... medieval time world population 300 million. Our population 6.9 billion.

[sheltiemanva]

Love your videos! But that was not 80MPH worth of impact.

I think you believe that, but after towing a BUNCH of cars and seeing the results, I can say by yours...it was not 80.

That thing did a GREAT job of absorbing impact!!!

[PonguigPeopinn]

> Campaign with unsound arguments supporting global warming.

> Campaign with unsound arguments that the world is overpopulated.

> Crash car in a low population region during the coldest winter season in years.

Fail. Pure fail.

[DickMcPenis]

@PonguigPeopinn

All car accidents are "fail", but if you're suggesting that this particular accident was ironic based on his previous videos, you're either inherently rotten or incredibly moronic; but on second thought, your adherence to the "Larouche movement" leads me to believe that you are both. As for his arguments about climate change, I doubt you can cite them correctly, let alone refute them.

[waltervos]

What about the airbags? I always wondered: are they LOUD? Did you have any ear-damage, beeping noise.. acute deafness ? Should we all wear ear protection while driving? (that last one was a joken i'm sorry).

[ovrjoyed]

Glad you all are ok...Thanks for sharing. Where I live is under a snow emergency right now for ice and snow.. This was really good to know...Thanks...

[Japaneren]

Glad to hear you are all OK.

Your relative speed assessment is unfortunately wrong.

Your Swagger Wagon is about twice as heavy as the Miata.

Therefore the Miata took the brunt of the impact. If you were both doing 45, it would probably be the equivalent of a 25-30mph crash into a deformable barrier (like in the actual crash tests.)

That is of course still a significan speed.

[MrSchpankme]

Where's that Global warming, sparky ?

[Tgclove]

newtons 3rd law of motion: Third law: The mutual forces of action and reaction between two bodies are equal, opposite and collinear. This means that whenever a first body exerts a force F on a second body, the second body exerts a force −F on the first body. F and −F are equal in magnitude and opposite in direction. This law is sometimes referred to as the action-reaction law, with F called the "action" and −F the "reaction". The action and the reaction are simultaneous.

[balanceseeker]

Very nasty collision. It is a shame people forget that snow and ice require different driving techniques than dry road or even wet road.

Regardless, as many have already stated, glad everyone is okay.

[PurpleGhost]

'Sisters of prudence and providence', eh? I will remember that one, I rather like that as a saying :)

Very glad that you and your family are all safe.

[hecateus]

/me looks at car...

Take it to Blakes.

[saebeas]

Can you come be my college professor please? Southern California.

[saebeas]

I'm glad science

[bigjay290386]

Safest driver I know??? Then why did you 'turn' to 'talk' to your wife? Safest driver you know my ass!!

[Matrixtechno]

about the relative speed of head on colision. The force of the impact is egal to the average speed of the vehicule and not the sum, because the lenght of deformation to dissipate the impact energy is twice longer. The impact point in space is not moving and may be simplified by a wall, then it's easy to see that the impact force would simply be the speed of the vehicule and not the sum of those speeds. The energy dissipated is twice with a head on collision, but not the impact force.

[GenoSkill]

dude why arent you a youtube partner

[DraconicBovine]

Watch mythbusters. The relative speed argument isn't true. Glad you guys made it.

[artvandelay13]

Definitely a good lesson there! Glad to know you're all okay :)

And don't forget to thank Toyota too!

[StUDioROMe]

smart guy, but leaves his licence plate on the car for the video, for every criminal to see....

[JUNIORMICH]

i can fix that!

[michalchik]

Be sure to send a thank you note to the toyota engineers

[klusmanp]

Excellent video. I spent 3 years designing safety features on the Boeing 777 freighter as a stress analysis engineer. Lots of work to keep people alive. Looks like the collision was a glancing blow that developed rotation in the other vehicle and a partial speed reduction in your vehicle. Might have been much worse if the other vehicle was completely in front of you at the time of impact. Glad you are ok!! I just did some web commecials for the Ford Explorer. Check my channel!

[nigoroku]

cool every 1 is OK

[BigSwede7403]

Glad to hear you are all ok, and that includes the other car people as well ofcourse. Seeing that front, it´s clear the crumple zone did what it was supposed to, absorbing kinetic energy. :) Actualy, i´m surprised the front is´t more deformed than that, but eh.

Either way, hope all the insurance stuff works out because i think that the current one can´t be repaired at reasonable costs. Mind you, i´m no auto or insurance expert.

[eddiequest4]

Scary thing - accidents are. Soooo glad you're all okay.

Hail Toyota. Personally, I don't leave home without one.

[finlarg]

Glad you're all OK... Great advert for Toyota!

[byrongsmith]

Glad you're ok.

[Cyber000000]

Glad you guys are okay. Nurture triumphs again!

[InnerSmile72]

aw dude you're being cool, hey, I can be a crazy evangelist about mandatory driverless cars! (on public roads) no more drunk drivers, no more old people having problems and driving into people, we'll never prevent senseless tragedies without it...

[InnerSmile72]

Focus more on bringing driverless (green) cars to our roads so we can stop this endless pattern! Accidents a thing of the past! It's HUGE right now... hey Google already has them! We need to bring them in as soon as possible, it's laws and bigotry and backwards thinking holding the technology back, just ask anyone in the industry...

[jjkoehler]

Very sorry you got into an accident, but SUPER glad you're all ok! Carpe Diem!

[FloppyFormatFrenzy]

This is all thanks to Ralph Nader who brought on the most attention to auto safety in the 60s and all of the man hours put in by engineers to make driving safer.

[Foderick]

Fuck yeah Toyota! What a great video! What a great van! I'm glad you are all okay. I never knew the force that the passenger airbag deployed at and I didn't know not to put my legs up there. THANKS FOR THE KNOWLEDGE!

[nickst0ne]

A friend of mine also had an accident due to ice, 1 month ago. The car ended upside-down in a ditch 3-4 metres deep with an ice-cold water stream. 1 of her daughters was between life & death for 2 weeks but there was a series of fortunate events that helped (fireman in one of the following cars could act quickly).

A waterproof cellphone could help in those situations.

In case of post-traumatic stress, a study has shown that playing Tetris has positive effects on the mind (seriously!).

[michalchik]

Glad you are OK! Talk calmly to your kids about what happened so they don't mythologize it and turn it into a trauma.

[ethankegley]

where are you from in Oregon? I am from Eugene, but I live in Taiwan. Love your videos and so glad that you and your family are ok.

[d3adp001]

Glad to hear that everyone is alright and doing well.

I wouldnt trust the toyota engineers too much they are having problems with sticky accelerator problem. And air bags dont always go off, my exwife was in an accident and the side impact bag didnt go off, compound fracture,severed nerves tendons, and she was left handed

Putting your feet on the dash is just rediculous.

[OmegaSwitch]

Ever since I got in a hint-and-run accident last year I've been much more observant- and paranoid, admittedly- of other drivers, and your video just reinforces that. As with everyone else, I'm very glad that you and your family made it through this relatively unscaved.

[phatcheck]

"I turned to my wife to say something".

KEEP YOUR EYES ON THE ROAD!!!!

That is the moral of this story. And that is my PSA.

[Nani101]

@phatcheck Really? You never turned to the side for a moment while on the road?

[bludgeon314]

just glad everybody's okay :)

[zebruh]

my gawd. that is so scary. as you were describing it i started crying.

[kaupaxup]

Love the note about thankfullness... no point being thankful to beings we've never met and don't even know if they exist, might as well be thankful to the good engineers and your own wise decisions - far more deserving.

[galiant609]

haha! I remember my first car accident.

It hurt. alot.

[yakuzelizard]

Glad to hear everyone is ok. Bless you and your family...and the young lady involved.

[crubeo]

So glad you're all okay!

[ArizonaBob]

Glad everyone is ok! Great PSA! :)

[FailBlob]

Awww, your daughter's a little person? :)

[pavelow235]

How is your book selling?  Did you purchase another Toyota Sienna?

[refink33]

wow, glad everyones OK !!

[shadyd234]

THERE IS A REASON WHY TOYOTA IS KNOWN FOR RELIABILITY AND SAFETY (yes they fixed the old models)

[ddevincenzo]

Glad you're all alright. Now make some new videos!

[TheJamesPope]

that was a very interesting video

I quite enjoyed the look into the cabin of the car, and your examination of the airbags,

seems like good information to know, that I didn't know, if one should get into an accident,

and I'm definitely never resting my feet on the dashboard again either..

[whotoinfinity]

Glad you're all doing well!

[bleis1]

very happy to learn that all your family is well (HUGS)

[EdderCMG]

Jeez; glad your ok man. Very good that no one was hurt.

[deadz74]

lucky you didnt drive a chinese minivan ,

[PhillipOrion]

@deadz74 Why? Would he have gotten Riprash. Errybody got Riprash

[apeek7]

How about being thankful to the Toyota engineers AND the activist groups, like Nader Raiders, who, over the years, lobbied for safer cars.

[WayneFrWpg]

Glad to hear you all made it out safe.

Maybe Toyota will send you a new van for the promo LOL.

[saxmanchiro]

Happy to hear your family is fine. You might want to know this.

Over the holidays, all the science faculty at our public school conducted a survey, through our students, asking friends and family a question;

'Do you agree that the current warming of our earth is due to human activity.' and the possible answers were 'Yes, No and IDK'

We have about 600 respondents so far. I will message you with the complete results in a couple of days. We teach in the Southern US.

[melrobRTF]

i think that the only thing that could kill chuck norris is an airbag.

[DXR13KE]

Good to know you are ok.

[Phloid82]

Glad you are all ok.

[AtheistApe5]

"Today 's class will be about physics and vehicular safety. There will be test next week."

Never a bad idea to sound like that when talking.

[Leavon]

I'm glad everyone came out of the accident okay.

[ThePresidentialTouch]

Dang cellphones!!

[ekhaat]

Glad you are ok.

Take care (needless to say)

Cheers

PS. And worship Toyota

[ProtagonistNonTheist]

I'm surprised you didn't blur the license plate, now I can find out where you live.

[GilucZ]

@ProtagonistNonTheist lol so what

[Kratax]

Don't turn to your wife to talk...

[AngryWomble]

My little Kia Picanto gave it's life the other year when I had a crash, I upgraded to a slightly bigger Kia with even more airbags. Seatbelts are so full of win, I'd probably have died without mine, and the point where i tilted was probably the scariest part.....thank Newton i didn't roll!

[ubuntututorials]

Didn't MythBusters show that two cars at 50 mph *wasn't* the same as one at 100 mph? The collision would have been about 45-50 mph equivalent. I don't remember the explanation, though.

[christianmatthe]

@ubuntututorials

Newton's third law states that every action has an equal and opposite reaction. Whether that opposite force comes from a stationary wall or another car going at the same speed doesn't matter. Therefore hitting another car going at 40mph head on while going 40mph yourself is the same as hitting something stationary at 40 mph.

[ubuntututorials]

@christianmatthe That seems like a good explanation. Thanks!

[grumbel45]

@ubuntututorials Two cars of similar weight crashing at 50mph isn't the same as one car crashing into a wall at 100mph, as the energy of both those cars doesn't go into a single car, but is spread among the two. With a wall all the energy goes into a single car. However he didn't say wall, he said parking car, so I think thats correct.

[ubuntututorials]

@grumbel45 The wall would absorb the same energy as a parked car but obviously being a wall it would deform less and the damage would be concentrated on the car, with the wall relatively intact. Unless I'm missing something.

[dreamcore]

@ubuntututorials I didn't see that MythBusters, but yes, two cars at 50 mph is going to be very different than one car at 100 mph into a fixed object like a bridge abutment. One car at 100 mph with a car at rest, not in park, would be most similar, but still not quite the same. There are a lot of variables in real auto collisions, a lot of places for the energy to go.

[madjimms]

@ubuntututorials But wouldn't the brick wall have no momentum to provide extra kinetic energy like the other vehicle does?

[ubuntututorials]

@madjimms This is a question to ask a physics teacher, like wonderingmind42. I'm learning physics at the moment, but I haven't gone onto energy, forces, and Newtonian stuff yet - so what I know is pretty basic.

[Alitari]

@madjimms You have to think of each body and how they apply forces to one another. The brick wall doesn't move, so it applies a '50 mph force' back to the car, while two cars driving at 50 mph hit head on, each apply a '50 mph force' to one another. A 100 mph car hitting a brick wall has a '100 mph force' applied to it. In the two car scenario, they see the other car as a brick wall.

[madjimms]

@Alitari But the brick wall has 0 kinetic energy to push

"back", Its stationary. The other car has the possibility of offering MUCH more kinetic energy ie. more damage.

If they put a force measuring device between the two they would find there is a difference.

[Alitari]

@madjimms Okay think about it this way, each car will apply its kinetic energy to the other car. Since the brick wall does not move, the kinetic energy of the car hitting the brick wall is applied in an equal and opposite direction to it's original application (instead of into the wall, it's own kinetic energy is being applied to itself). From either point of view the same amount of energy is being applied to each car (either by the other car or by the wall).

[PsychoticusRex]

@ubuntututorials called laboratory error, it's darn near impossible to reproduce a perfect impact at any speed so theoretical is always approached never attained. Millions of cars on the roads every day, random luck is far more "predictable" that someones going to hit the theoretical max somewhere.

[michalchik]

@ubuntututorials Are you sure? That violates the principle of relativistic motion. I did not see that episode and I have seen most of the. Can you give a reference? is suspect there was a flaw in their methodology. Perhaps you are misremembering the compact-compact episode where they tried to get a compact car to disappear between two trucks in a head-on.

[nickst0ne]

@michalchik : you are confusing 2 ideas. The first one is "relative speed" of the vehicles when they move. The relative speed from each car to the other is indeed the addition of both speeds.

The second idea is the violence of the impact, which is homogeneous (in units) to an acceleration ("speed loss" divided by "impact duration"). The impact duration is considered fixed. The speed loss is just 50mph because cars just go to a stall... from 50 to 0.

[michalchik]

@nickst0ne In that case we are interpreting his relative speed statement differently. I assume he was saying that it was like crashing into a stationary car at twice the velocity. You are assuming that he was saying it was like crashing into a something unmovable and uncrushable at twice the velocity. In the case of a stationary car both cars would crumple. Giving twice the duration of deceleration at a minimum and halving the force.

[nickst0ne]

@michalchik : I checked the video again, and you're correct. But his choice of comparison is misleading or counter-intuitive because you have to think that when crashing into a parked car, the total amount of (your car's) kinetic energy will be divided between your car (it keeps moving forward after impact) and the parked car (which gets pushed).

I find it more intuitive to compare accidents with a crash into an unmovable object (like a wall).

[nickst0ne]

@ubuntututorials : The explanation is simple... in a head-on collision between 2 equivalent vehicles (in mass) driving at 50mph, your speed goes from 50 to 0. So you lose 50 mph.

In order to equate a 100mph accident, the opposite vehicle would have to bring your vehicle to a speed of -50mph, in other words... bring your vehicle to 50mph BACKWARDS, which is only possible if the opposite vehicle is massive compared to yours (a truck for instance).

[dsaasdf]

@ubuntututorials The energy dissipated on both sides, so it doesn`t add up to eachother as there is space to dissipate it behind the impact zone -- compared to a static wall which cannot, it doesn`t add up when two cars crash into eachother. That was the explanation

[Cyber000000]

@ubuntututorials That is indeed the case. You car think in terms of what happens to the front of the car.  If you hit a brick wall, the front stops moving instantly. If you hit another car of the same weight, travelling at the same speed, the fronts of each car would stop instantly, just like when hitting a wall. That's the way I think about it anyway.

[frollard]

@ubuntututorials Exactly.

There is a difference between different accidents:

veh vs veh same speed = equivelant to hitting something massive that brings one car to dead stop (same result = dead stop).

Vehicle versus STOPPED same veh will be much less, because the sum of the vectors will result in a moving clump of 2 cars. Since you still have motion in the cars, its not all absorbed at once in the impact, so less energy in the impact.

[kriptonis]

@ubuntututorials he didn't say the force was the same as 80mph collision. But the speed was the same. Speed is different from force. For example, wind at 25mph is normal, and hits you all the time. But a train at 50mph might not feel as pleasant as a breeze.

[idontcare80]

Glad to see you're okay. Toyota makes amazing vehicles!