Crash Test: 2006 Lexus GS 300

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Insurance Institute for Highway Safety Crash Test: 2006 Lexus GS 300

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[3M00RI]

even when its all crashed and fucked up .. its still more expansive than my car ..

[csmybuttt]

@RnB123100 Like what? For starters, the platform and drivetrain, the most important and distinct features of a car, are different between the two. What's a significant part that's similar?

You work at a lexus dealer? As what, the janitor? Certainly you don't have a job that requires you to read or write with that kind of English...

[MADDOG6400]

@Sinzyal Why? He's going to be okay in the car. Put him in a 90s Ford Ranger!

[pmoney4201021]

show me the carfax

[whattheheck1000]

@punjabdaputhar By the way, My name is Jimmy, and I am 18 years old. You are very welcome and if you have any further questions about car safety feel free to ask me. I am going into Tennessee Tech University this fall to be a Mechanical Engineer working with the safety of cars.

June 12, 2011 12:14 am

[whattheheck1000]

@punjabdaputhar Mental trauma can't be prevented, but injury can. Engineers do their best to ensure that potential for injury is minimized in any potential impact. In certain extreme impacts fatality will result unless radical and impractical changes are made to the car's design itself. Working within the design limits of the modern car, engineers will continue to make them safer and reduce the range of impacts that will cause injury and fatality.

June 12, 2011 12:12 am

[whattheheck1000]

@punjabdaputhar (continued) This airbag had too much "surface tension" in the fabric, like an overinflated balloon. The head slid on the airbag to the left before sinking in to it, causing the head to go too far to the left inside the airbag, and during rebound, it was in position to hit the window frame. An airbag that keeps the head from hitting the wheel has less surface tension, so the driver can sink into it on impact. See the 2005 Acura RL crash test for an example.

June 11, 2011 11:33 pm

[whattheheck1000]

@punjabdaputhar Accidents can happen in any manner. They do have that innovation on the passenger side in some Lexuses (this isn't one), because the larger airbag has room to absorb the occupant's energy, and the two "airbags" are joined at the back. On the driver's side, that wouldn't work as the occupant's head would be forced through the middle of the smaller "airbags" and slam into the steering wheel if they were thrown directly forward, as in a full frontal impact.

[whattheheck1000]

@punjabdaputhar Forces on the head were low from that hit.

June 11, 2011 11:05 pm

[whattheheck1000]

@aaad917 It's closed to the public... but RARELY a layman interested in car safety will get to watch. Normally crash watchers stand on a catwalk that overlooks the crash, but the catwalk must have been under renovation. I went to two IIHS crash tests in 2008 and 2009.

May 8, 2011 1:22 am

[aaad917]

0:11 Too many audience!!! I wonder how much the crash ticket is?