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Uploaded by on Mar 16, 2010

Test to show how forces from a slow moving semi-truck effect the driver in a stopped passenger car.

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  • Why would you "wreck" a good Pete 379??? Isnt that what Volvos are for?!

  • @philyt Unfortunately, the consumer is anaesthetized to real possibilities. How a simple door stop prevents a heavy door from opening.Whereas, as a car designed so would flip a heavy logging truck with ease. Creating jobs is immiscible with science.

  • @seapeddler I hope you don't truly believe that.

  • Skip to 0:22. :)

  • Oomph, my bad :)

  • If carmakers employed a separate decelleration frame with attached seats, the forces would be reduced 75 %. A small car made with good steel could actually act as a ramp and the truck would drive over it without any occupant damage. But the trucker would be injured when his rig fell over on the cab from such a height. Simple engineering concepts would cause mass unemployment.

  • и чё

  • good breaks

  • @madjimms Of course, and that's why it's harmful to the occupants inside. It's a sudden "acceleration, deceleration" injury. A human is at rest with the car; after being hit, the car suddenly lurches forward while the inertia of the human inside stays at rest until violently pushed forward by the seat back.

    If the impact is strong enough, the car will crush, and this will counter-intuitively provide a buffer for the human inside the car, resulting in a less-severe injury.

  • @archmaille @archmaille yes it is an awesome car i love it and also i agree with you on the metros safety, our neighbours daughter had a metro and she loved it but a few years ago she crashed on ice, she was going to fast for the conditions and understeered into the oncoming lane and hit another car,she made it out barely and her car was a peice of scrunched up metal i went to the scrap yard where it was and saw all the damage...it was amazing how she survived! but anyways i love my jetta

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