Still way less people (per capita) dies on the roads of most European countries than in the US. The US should adapt qome of the safety features and rules from Europe. :)
@@volvodashcam do more pedestrians get hit by cars in the USA? I always found this european preoccupation with pedestrians getting hit by cars to be very strange
Like the introduction humour. Sandy, you can keep saying bonnet, if you want to. I'm from the UK. 😋 Nice video too. There is a fascination in why small important items and systems are designed the way they are. 👍
I think Europe has stricter pedestrian safety because people actually walk places here, in the US people look at you strange if you're trying to walk somewhere outside of a city because everywhere is giant roads and abandoned sidewalks. I felt really strange walking to a gas station to buy some food when I visited in 2016. 😅 Here it's very common to park on the outskirts of a town then walk in as parking is cheaper that way, or even use 'park and ride' systems where you park outside the town at a bus station and they transfer you in to the town.
I'm going to steal Flemming Sortkjaer post here: "In 2017, 5,977 pedestrians were killed in traffic crashes in the United States, In 2016, 5.320 pedestrians were killed in road accidents in the EU". Nah, it's just that Volvo has a history of really caring about security. They invented and gave for free the 3 point belt. Meanwhile US car manufacturer just stopped putting pointy stuff on their steering wheel (Sammy Davis Junior lost an eye because of that).
@@airheart1 Actually US city streets were designed for walking too, they were just bulldozed away far more relentlessly then in Europe to make space for cars. www.strongtowns.org/journal/2021/5/4/crime-scene-photos
Thats the dumbest bull$hit I have ever heard.. People drive in Europe, people drive in the suburbs, the countryside and from country to country.. People walk a lot in many cities in the USA, have you ever been to NYC or Washington DC, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Chicago? People are even walking in Los Angeles; dwntwn Los Angeles and Hollywood are crowded with people walking. Cities that don't have reliable public transportation and or if the shops are not within walking distance of someone's home, these people must drive. The USA is a huge country with hundreds of small to medium cities without mass public transportation and that is because the auto industry can become rich.. All the large major cities in the USA have public transportation and people walk as well as drive.. NYC has at least 5 million people walking its streets any given day. DC has about 1 million people walking any given day...
Love the explanation of all the little design details. As a layman, I wouldn't have noticed, but it's such a pleasure to have these things pointed out. Food for the mind.
Pedestrian impact feels too much like a category invented to boost the overall score for cars that do poorly in the important categories. Same with the rating on child seat connectors. A poorly designed car can get a boost in ncap by adding silly things to the hood and having childseat connectors for 3 different connector types. A car only really needs 1 connector type because you buy the seat that works with it and all seats can be installed with just a seatbelt too.
@@_PatrickO pedestrian/bicyclist safety might not be an important factor for you as the driver, which is exactly why it need to be part of the rating as it is important for those who get hit. Not sure about the US, but around here, isofix is the standard for child seats, and if you believe those supported by the seat belts are just a safe then you should check some tests I guess safety features like automatic emergency braking are just pointless too?
@@_PatrickO A “ poorly designed car...” will be improved by the imposition of standard mandatory safety requirements. It’s not a freedom or death type deal.
@@gt5228z You only think it isn’t broken because people in the US would die either way after getting hit by a huge ass truck. But in Europe it makes an actual difference. The reason we have so many incidents involving pedestrians is that most people walk through city streets. In the US that is only true in a few cities. Your cities are build for driving every single time.
The reason why we, in Europe, have a thing with pedestrians is that - as opposed to many regions of the US - we actually *have* people walking (and cycling) in significant numbers. (...and narrow roads where pedestrians will just cross willy-nilly if there's light traffic)
The pedestrians cross willy nilly because they always have right of way. We like to remind cars that they are guests. As a car driver it keeps you aware of your surroundings when pedestrians can leap out in front of you.
It's kind of funny how Monroe always urges you to tip the cashiers and be kind to people, but doesn't understand why the European car industry tries to save pedestrians in case you hit them with your car.
I'm curious though, do we hit more pedestrians here in Europa or the statistics are similar and it's just that in the US they are not doing anything about it.
Walking Americans are a curiosity. 😉 We have much tighter city’s in Europe where cars and pedestrians are all over each other. You don’t find that rarely in the states.
In EU they design cities for pedestrian and bike traffic first, and cars are a guest that may not harm them. TH-cam channel Not Just Bikes has informative videos on this.
It’s not about pedestrians (or bicycles) getting hit more often or not in the EU. It’s about giving them a better chance of surviving - preferably without major injuries - if they get hit. Whether that happens 10 or 10000 pedestrians a year is irrelevant. Skipping pedestrian safety is like you not using your seatbelt; you pretty much never need it, except that one time you really wish you did as you fly through your windshield. Having said that, nice video and well explained! 👌🏻
i think you should do a video (candid camera style) of you tipping a cashier, i think it would really help everyone else figure out how to navigate that potentially uncomfortable social interaction
Good stuff, I assume the difference in Europe is that there is actual pedestrian infrastructure and people walking a whole lot more than in US, I assume that also results in more unwanted car bonnet to pedestrian interactions
@Robby Dey Changes in legislation and public policy don't usually apply retroactively and often have a transition period so people could drive their huge SUVs and pickups until they reduce to a pile of rust, but the manufacturers would not be allowed to make or sell new cars with designs that aren't up to the new legislation after a given date. And European countries already have their fair share of big cars on the roads. Range Rovers, XC90s, X5s etc are common enough and they are all designed to abide by the EU pedestrian safety regulations. Occasionally you might spot an Escalade or a ridiculously sized US pickup, but I have no idea if there's some hoop one has to jump through to import one or not.
Manufacturers distract with design, tech and surface level things. Refreshing to have the curtain pulled back and see if a car genuinely is good or not. Keep em coming boys and girls!
Sidenote EU has a lower fatality rate for cyclist and pedestrians than US, partly because car manufacturers are incentivised to include external safety features in case you hit someone with your car.
There aren't more pedeastrian runovers in Europe than in the US. But the safety standard for those cases is higher. As cars keep getting bigger and bigger, people being runover tend to crush their heads on the hood. In the past the people got thrown into the glass. As a result with the european safety standard, the injuries on the head, especially with lower speeds, are not that severe.
I was thinking maybe there are likely more pedestrians and bikers in Europe per square mile/km due to higher population density. People in the US don't bike around as much, and allot of travel is done across long distances, excluding some old dense areas such as New York perhaps. But when looking at the statistics of pedestrian casualties, I'm seeing data showing that the US is indeed falling behind in this area, in fact the gap seems to be growing, so that doesn't seem to match my initial assumption. Maybe another factor could be more reckless driving in the states, maybe it could be tied in some fashion to higher crime statistics, or maybe it's something else I'm not aware of that would balance out the population density factor.
@@AllanSustainabilityFan I would say it's much easier to get a driver's license in most of the states than any of the European countries. People are allowed to drive at a younger age, with significantly fewer lessons and a much easier test/exam. Whenever I'm talking to US Americans visiting Germany, they are all impressed how disciplined the drivers here are. 🤷♂️
Removable fuses and relays are incredibly useful when diagnosing electrical system failures. It is bad enough that manufactures integrate relays into the modules. I can imagine the headache of trying to do electrical diagnosis on a car without removable fuses. Sandy obviously has no vehicle repair experience, and it seem like most suggestions to reduce cost and assembly time come at the expense of maintenance and repair time or cost.
Not a huge EV guy, but this vehicle is very appealing to me. Especially living in a place that gets a lot of snow and salt. Volvo and Audi are pretty much the only car brands that seem to go forever without rusting. Toyota and Vw are probably the best out of the mainstream brands for rust protection IMHO
You keep commenting about the double latches. They are there for a very important reason. They also serve as hinges for the active hood/bonnet for pedestrian protection.
@@tesla_stephen4651 it's not his fault. USAians get some creative education and information sometimes. Many of them don't even understand the difference between USA and America. 😆 Many USAians think that North America is the entire world, even though the majority of USAians descent from Asia, Africa and Europe. 😂 "humans originated extraterrestrial" 🤪
Hard to find numbers on all collisions but as far as fatalities is concerned: Pedestrian fatality rates in the US are actually higher than in western Europe
@@TheEvilmooseofdoom What does the percentage mean? Kinda unclear. I was looking at per capita statistics. To be fair there is a big gap between western and eastern European countries, and the eastern are worse than the USA average. The differences between states in the US is more gradual.
"In England this is called a bonnet... so we're going to open the bonnet..." - Everyone in the UK (not just England) clicks like. 👍 (Side note - in the UK we call the rear storage the boot, so some UK people call the front boot the "froot" - I don't think it's common though!)
Now *_That_* was _interesting._ The car designers are putting their designs into CAD and the engineers are taking those CAD files and *_not_* partitioning those before handing them to fabrication. (But I bet they still aren't up to an *octovalve* though.)
"Apparently pedestrian get hit by car quite often over there (in europe)". Nah, it's just that Volvo is almost the only car manufacturer that has always really cared about security. They invented the 3 point belt, and gave it for free. Now they protect pedestrians with this, it's really great. A shame that it didn't gave them enough reputation and fame to prevent them from being bought by the competition... Anyway, great video as always, thanks for the content!
Yeah Volvo always cared about security the most. But cars in Europe are required to have these kind of protection systems for pedestrians. It's part of the crash tests.
@@leonj1873 Alright, I didnt' know it was passed as a law (I'm in france btw, but not enough into cars to know about it). It's even better. Thanks for the info.
Sounds to me like "I am being criticised for saying this, that and that, so I call it something new so you can criticise me on that as well." I like that attitude.
Now, will Sandy dare to push the boat out a little further and call the fenders wings? Although I can't understand why people refer to the front bit of the car as a frunk, or a froot, or hood or bonnet etc. and get mad when it's called by another name, at the end of the day they all mean the same. Surly there must be other things to worry about, or are people just too uptight these days and need to see a shrink and get over themselves?
It would be interesting to see pedestrian deaths versus km walked, since I'd guess the average person in the EU walks considerably further than one in the US. (And add biking km if those classify as pedestrians.)
not strange, the 17% and 20% is the part of the total traffic deaths. But US has 3x higher death rate per capita compare to EU, 12 versus 4 per 100.000. And compare to the "best" in traffic safety UK and SWE, around 2 to 3 ,US has in average x4 to x6 higher death rates per capita. There must be some very unsafe states in US then the average is so high. The averge is higher than "worse" EU member state, Romania 9.6.
I am an avid follower of your channel and watch your videos withing 5-6 hours of uploading. Mr. Munro not only in England but in a lot of other countries bonnet, boot, windscreen etc is used. I appreciate you using these terms. I believe like me , many non native of USA follow you. Please continue to use these terms and if possible please use or put on screen SI units when you mention the various specs.
I honestly like this arrangement best, still can access things like the 12v system and fuses while having enough room for a couple of back packs or tools.
@@mamadouaziza2536 328mio in US. Europe 746mio. Over double the population so not exactly even 😉 If the European Union was what was meant it's 446mio which is still 33% more. So again not exactly even either.
@@faluffel European Union... But the USA has more cars and the USA is one country, one large country and the freeways are a major part of transportation.. Might as well throw in brother Mexico and sister Canada and the Caribbean cousins into the mix. Its unofficially one gigantic nation with folks crossing the borders.
Latches in trunk: As said in another video, it is a safety thing to have two latches. Yes, Volvo is the leader in car safety for a reason... as we all know.
@@TheEvilmooseofdoom You totally missed the point. Sure you can cherry-pick statistics if it's important to emphasize that killed pedestrians in USA increased from 13% in 2009 to 17% in 2018. But here in Scandinavia we have a traffic strategy called Vision Zero, which is aiming to reduce road deaths. There are several ways to protect pedestrians on the roads, and developing design standards on cars for pedestrian protection is one of them so why neglect it?
The aluminium castings jumped out immediately. They almost certainly provide the side supports for the cooling matrix but I wonder if the meet across the front of the car and if so how are they joined. I know Polestar is now Chinese owned but it is division of Volvo and, having owned three different models, the Swedes design good functional vehicles with longevity and safety built in.
The reason for pedestrian accidents is European towns and cities encourage a mix of all road users... bikes, pedestrians, buses, trams in order to make them thrive. Shopping malls only started to exist in 1970s and have had a devastating effect on city centres. Great video.
@@ElDJReturn How could one possibly overthink that play on words. It's the most obvious play on the word "engineer" that could possibly be made. As an engineer, after 50 years, it gets a bit stale. So I thought I could at least add something slightly interesting to this effort.
Woo fancy intro animation--also I love the choice of having music at the end instead of at both bringing and end. I notice the volume seems low at times, I understand if that is a conscious choice, but if not, please turn it up a couple notches. :) I really appreciate the content and insights. It helps me think about market directions and my own inventions, too!
Wow that's awesome! I didn't expect a reply--i realize my wording was unclear. I meant the overall volume for the episodes. It could just be my phone, but I find myself able to hear most other content on TH-cam at 90% volume with ambient noise around, but your content I struggle at 100% to understand some of what is said if there is any ambient noise. Again, I can still understand but my brother is a sound engineer so self awareness I may be overly picky lol. Thank you so much for responding! You guys are amazing--such great content. I love it so much!
Ahh, that's fair then. There seems to be no standardization on video volume across youtube/twitch and it can be pretty frustrating when one video is noticeably quieter than another.
The biggest issue with the Polestar 2 seems to be the poor efficiency of the motors, gearbox, wheel bearings, and the efficiency definitely is harmed by the excess height the P2 has (likely from modifying the existing XC40 CMA platform into a BEV) plus it weighs 600lbs more than a Model 3 Performance. Also… I HATE plastic fasteners. Especially those ones with the little pin hole thing you demonstrated. If you push down too far the pin drops into the abyss never to be found again.
@@GA-wq8xq Tesla’s Chinese made cars are fine. The reason their paint is probably less durable on Fremont cars is the fact California is so freaking psychotic about chemicals. Tesla has to use some super special kind of water based paint to comply with CARB.
At the end of the video Sandy mentioned looking below the frunk tub but then the video ended. The next video I see is the hoist video. Is there a video missing?
Would you kindly create a playlist with all of your videos? I like to have it on while I work to listen in the background but don't like when a playlist ends and it ends up auto playing another channel. Thanks!
Pedestrian safety is not more important in Europe because "more people get hit by cars". It's considered more important because in Europe we care as much about people as America cares about corporate profits. For the same reason we also have vastly more strict food safety standards, drug safety standards, environmental standards, child safety standards and so on.
This is more of a Volvo depsite being owned by Geely (the Chinese company) but I was surprised by Sandy stating Chinese MAKE VERY GOOD CAR!!!( previous video) actually I owned a couple of cars made by some of the China's well-known brands, and it's like everything else that comes out of China, low quality, unreliable with so many issues, never ending issues and sometimes they are life-threatening, believe me, in my country we have access to a signifcant range of models from different Chinese manufacturers and almost everyone here unanimously call them junk.
@@WANDERER0070 That's true, but it's no just with their cheaper models, the same issue is with Chinese models with higher price tags, I am not speaking about luxury or premiums price range, I am speaking about models within the price domain of 20000 to 30000 US$, even the more well-known Chinese models with that range of price come with major issues, you get something far inferior with low quality parts, cheap stuff and material all over it, unacceptable issues you almost never see in any similar Korean car, I don't know if it's their greed for more profit or their lack of skills, engineering or technical Knowldge, but it's widespread among almost every Chinese model and car maker.
😭😱🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️, the worst place for relays and fuses is under the hood exactly there !!! They are always got rusty and damaged in all kind of car accidents, rainy or by humidity. The ECU in in the worst place near it too. I must insist about those punchings of aluminum to iron !! They got loos during time and in all kind of damages they are weak points !!! Those kind of joints has made lots of airplane disasters 🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️.
This guy likes cheap plastic clips, Serious? My 2000 Durango use huge hex bolts, even a Russian nuclear bomb cant destroy them. This guy likes poor quality, the same when he liked that Tesla had stop installing clips for wheel arch.
I was gonna make a joke about how the US solved the pedestrian problem by making it impossible to walk anywhere, but as has already been pointed out, many more pedestrians are killed by cars in the US compared to Europe. The regulators just don't care as much.
Where could I get a couple of extra fasteners online? While taking one off, it went flying to neverland. So only have (3) holding down the back trunk cover currently.
The reason why in Europe we have to take care of pedestrians, is because we have them, unlike the USA there are no pedestrians everyone drives everywhere even for for a 10 feel journy
Europeans walked more than United States residents (382 versus 140 km per person per year) and bicycled more (188 versus 40 km per person per year) in 2000
This looks like a decent cat but don’t like hump on floor at rear. Also, I would never buy a high ticket item from China because funds support their government.
Thank you so much for the knowledge and insights that you shared in the 'Under the Hood' and 'Hoisted' series, I learned a lot! And those kind of technical details are so satisfying and they are so much missing from the majority of car reviewers
Why do EVs need replacement fuses? It seems... old fashioned? Is it because they foresee heavy maintenance and replacement after a while? How does Tesla do it differently? Thanks for all the videos!
Sweden is basically norway if norway didn't find oil. All the norwegian engineers got sucked up by the petroleum industry in the 70's and I do wonder what our engineers will achieve when all cars are electric and the demand for oil drops.
Of course Tesla has fuses. In the older cars, normal melt fuses like here. On the newer ones, electronic fuses, and of course melt fuses on high voltage. I really prefer melt fuses since it is easier to check for faults, quicker to replace and get working and so on.
Pedestrian safety is much more prevalent in Europe, simply because more people walk as a means of transportation (including cycling).
Still way less people (per capita) dies on the roads of most European countries than in the US. The US should adapt qome of the safety features and rules from Europe. :)
@@volvodashcam Agreed!
@@volvodashcam Making cars bullet-proof might be more efficient in the USA ;-)
@@bernhardleopold6702 🤣🤣🤣
@@volvodashcam do more pedestrians get hit by cars in the USA? I always found this european preoccupation with pedestrians getting hit by cars to be very strange
Sandy: "Everyone criticizes me. I'm going to call it a bonnet."
Munro Live Uploader: "Screw that. 'E2 - Under the Hood' it is."
😂😂😂😂 👏🏻 tea time please.
Gee, I thought it was a Froot!
Like the introduction humour. Sandy, you can keep saying bonnet, if you want to. I'm from the UK. 😋 Nice video too. There is a fascination in why small important items and systems are designed the way they are. 👍
Very disappointed that Sandy did not find out the Swedish of frunk.......knowing the Sweed
We need more of this respect for the mother language from our US friends 😛
Its designed in Sweden so you should say motorhuv not bonnet😁😁😁
Well should he? There's no engine there.
For those of you not speeking Viking ... we use motor for both motor and engine.
Really appreciate all the great new content recently.
Thanks!
I think Europe has stricter pedestrian safety because people actually walk places here, in the US people look at you strange if you're trying to walk somewhere outside of a city because everywhere is giant roads and abandoned sidewalks. I felt really strange walking to a gas station to buy some food when I visited in 2016. 😅
Here it's very common to park on the outskirts of a town then walk in as parking is cheaper that way, or even use 'park and ride' systems where you park outside the town at a bus station and they transfer you in to the town.
Or people actually care about other people in Europe, instead of just themself. :P
Because European cities are old.. and were designed for walking.. American cities, even our 'old' ones.. are not really designed for walking
I'm going to steal Flemming Sortkjaer post here:
"In 2017, 5,977 pedestrians were killed in traffic crashes in the United States, In 2016, 5.320 pedestrians were killed in road accidents in the EU".
Nah, it's just that Volvo has a history of really caring about security.
They invented and gave for free the 3 point belt.
Meanwhile US car manufacturer just stopped putting pointy stuff on their steering wheel (Sammy Davis Junior lost an eye because of that).
@@airheart1 Actually US city streets were designed for walking too, they were just bulldozed away far more relentlessly then in Europe to make space for cars.
www.strongtowns.org/journal/2021/5/4/crime-scene-photos
Thats the dumbest bull$hit I have ever heard.. People drive in Europe, people drive in the suburbs, the countryside and from country to country..
People walk a lot in many cities in the USA, have you ever been to NYC or Washington DC, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Chicago? People are even walking in Los Angeles; dwntwn Los Angeles and Hollywood are crowded with people walking.
Cities that don't have reliable public transportation and or if the shops are not within walking distance of someone's home, these people must drive. The USA is a huge country with hundreds of small to medium cities without mass public transportation and that is because the auto industry can become rich..
All the large major cities in the USA have public transportation and people walk as well as drive..
NYC has at least 5 million people walking its streets any given day.
DC has about 1 million people walking any given day...
Love the explanation of all the little design details. As a layman, I wouldn't have noticed, but it's such a pleasure to have these things pointed out. Food for the mind.
Good video. And a welcome acknowledgment that European safety standards are expressed in real engineering.
To fix something that isn't broken?
Pedestrian impact feels too much like a category invented to boost the overall score for cars that do poorly in the important categories. Same with the rating on child seat connectors. A poorly designed car can get a boost in ncap by adding silly things to the hood and having childseat connectors for 3 different connector types. A car only really needs 1 connector type because you buy the seat that works with it and all seats can be installed with just a seatbelt too.
@@_PatrickO pedestrian/bicyclist safety might not be an important factor for you as the driver, which is exactly why it need to be part of the rating as it is important for those who get hit.
Not sure about the US, but around here, isofix is the standard for child seats, and if you believe those supported by the seat belts are just a safe then you should check some tests
I guess safety features like automatic emergency braking are just pointless too?
@@_PatrickO A “ poorly designed car...” will be improved by the imposition of standard mandatory safety requirements. It’s not a freedom or death type deal.
@@gt5228z You only think it isn’t broken because people in the US would die either way after getting hit by a huge ass truck. But in Europe it makes an actual difference.
The reason we have so many incidents involving pedestrians is that most people walk through city streets. In the US that is only true in a few cities. Your cities are build for driving every single time.
The reason why we, in Europe, have a thing with pedestrians is that - as opposed to many regions of the US - we actually *have* people walking (and cycling) in significant numbers. (...and narrow roads where pedestrians will just cross willy-nilly if there's light traffic)
And there are a lot of streets in europe older than the automobile!
The pedestrians cross willy nilly because they always have right of way. We like to remind cars that they are guests. As a car driver it keeps you aware of your surroundings when pedestrians can leap out in front of you.
Bonnet 😍 mad love from the UK -you are an incredible engineer with such great knowledge-i really appreciate the content and forever may it continue
Thank you.
It's kind of funny how Monroe always urges you to tip the cashiers and be kind to people, but doesn't understand why the European car industry tries to save pedestrians in case you hit them with your car.
I'm curious though, do we hit more pedestrians here in Europa or the statistics are similar and it's just that in the US they are not doing anything about it.
MURICA! It has been 178 mass shooting in 2021 SO FAR. And he got an NRA knife. A life is not wort anything unless you sell a kidney.
@@faythe03 in Europe they encourage to use other modes of transport. In the usa if you don't feel safe they buy bigger cars.
Walking Americans are a curiosity. 😉
We have much tighter city’s in Europe where cars and pedestrians are all over each other. You don’t find that rarely in the states.
In EU they design cities for pedestrian and bike traffic first, and cars are a guest that may not harm them.
TH-cam channel Not Just Bikes has informative videos on this.
Volvo has stated a goal, no one should get hurt from a Volvo, inside or outside the car. I like that.
I see you guys already got your Mach-E for the tear down?
Yes indeed.
It’s not about pedestrians (or bicycles) getting hit more often or not in the EU.
It’s about giving them a better chance of surviving - preferably without major injuries - if they get hit. Whether that happens 10 or 10000 pedestrians a year is irrelevant.
Skipping pedestrian safety is like you not using your seatbelt; you pretty much never need it, except that one time you really wish you did as you fly through your windshield.
Having said that, nice video and well explained! 👌🏻
I sense Sandy embracing being a little bit more of a troll and meme machine. I LIKE IT!
i think you should do a video (candid camera style) of you tipping a cashier, i think it would really help everyone else figure out how to navigate that potentially uncomfortable social interaction
How is that a challenge?
@@jamesengland7461 not something you normally do, so just want to see how it goes, and just to see sandy's moves which i'm sure are top notch
Good stuff, I assume the difference in Europe is that there is actual pedestrian infrastructure and people walking a whole lot more than in US, I assume that also results in more unwanted car bonnet to pedestrian interactions
Yeah, we don't drive to go like just next door.
@@musaran2........think there was a remark that 50% of UK journeying, by car, is under 1/2 a mile.
@Robby Dey Changes in legislation and public policy don't usually apply retroactively and often have a transition period so people could drive their huge SUVs and pickups until they reduce to a pile of rust, but the manufacturers would not be allowed to make or sell new cars with designs that aren't up to the new legislation after a given date.
And European countries already have their fair share of big cars on the roads. Range Rovers, XC90s, X5s etc are common enough and they are all designed to abide by the EU pedestrian safety regulations. Occasionally you might spot an Escalade or a ridiculously sized US pickup, but I have no idea if there's some hoop one has to jump through to import one or not.
Pedestrian fatalities are actually much higher in the US vs EU, some say it's because of so called "stroads"
Manufacturers distract with design, tech and surface level things. Refreshing to have the curtain pulled back and see if a car genuinely is good or not. Keep em coming boys and girls!
Sidenote EU has a lower fatality rate for cyclist and pedestrians than US, partly because car manufacturers are incentivised to include external safety features in case you hit someone with your car.
I thought for a second at the end you were going to say "well now all that is left to do is to test this on a pedestrian" lol ;)
There aren't more pedeastrian runovers in Europe than in the US. But the safety standard for those cases is higher. As cars keep getting bigger and bigger, people being runover tend to crush their heads on the hood. In the past the people got thrown into the glass. As a result with the european safety standard, the injuries on the head, especially with lower speeds, are not that severe.
I was thinking maybe there are likely more pedestrians and bikers in Europe per square mile/km due to higher population density.
People in the US don't bike around as much, and allot of travel is done across long distances, excluding some old dense areas such as New York perhaps.
But when looking at the statistics of pedestrian casualties, I'm seeing data showing that the US is indeed falling behind in this area, in fact the gap seems to be growing, so that doesn't seem to match my initial assumption.
Maybe another factor could be more reckless driving in the states, maybe it could be tied in some fashion to higher crime statistics, or maybe it's something else I'm not aware of that would balance out the population density factor.
@@AllanSustainabilityFan I would say it's much easier to get a driver's license in most of the states than any of the European countries. People are allowed to drive at a younger age, with significantly fewer lessons and a much easier test/exam. Whenever I'm talking to US Americans visiting Germany, they are all impressed how disciplined the drivers here are. 🤷♂️
Removable fuses and relays are incredibly useful when diagnosing electrical system failures. It is bad enough that manufactures integrate relays into the modules. I can imagine the headache of trying to do electrical diagnosis on a car without removable fuses. Sandy obviously has no vehicle repair experience, and it seem like most suggestions to reduce cost and assembly time come at the expense of maintenance and repair time or cost.
Not a huge EV guy, but this vehicle is very appealing to me. Especially living in a place that gets a lot of snow and salt. Volvo and Audi are pretty much the only car brands that seem to go forever without rusting. Toyota and Vw are probably the best out of the mainstream brands for rust protection IMHO
Oh? I have a Nissan built in the mid 1980s and not one rust spot is on it..
@@mamadouaziza2536 yeah back then they were good, i m referring to the last few decades or so
@@mamadouaziza2536
Of course you do.
The production values are getting pretty solid.
Loving these videos! Also, did you guys get a new editor? The new intro looks awesome!
You keep commenting about the double latches. They are there for a very important reason. They also serve as hinges for the active hood/bonnet for pedestrian protection.
Bonnet 👍🏻♥️🇬🇧
If he also could say aluminium instead 👍
@@pigedehekkan ...and educate himself on the difference between England and the United Kingdom...! 🤣
Australians and New Zealanders say bonnet too lol.
@@zaceriwata Haha, nice, I am also becoming educated! 🤣
@@tesla_stephen4651 it's not his fault. USAians get some creative education and information sometimes. Many of them don't even understand the difference between USA and America. 😆
Many USAians think that North America is the entire world, even though the majority of USAians descent from Asia, Africa and Europe. 😂 "humans originated extraterrestrial" 🤪
Hard to find numbers on all collisions but as far as fatalities is concerned: Pedestrian fatality rates in the US are actually higher than in western Europe
Not when I checked. The last year I found data for both was 2018. 17% for the US, 20% for the EU.
@@TheEvilmooseofdoom 17% and 20% of what?
@@TheEvilmooseofdoom What does the percentage mean? Kinda unclear. I was looking at per capita statistics. To be fair there is a big gap between western and eastern European countries, and the eastern are worse than the USA average. The differences between states in the US is more gradual.
"In England this is called a bonnet... so we're going to open the bonnet..." - Everyone in the UK (not just England) clicks like. 👍
(Side note - in the UK we call the rear storage the boot, so some UK people call the front boot the "froot" - I don't think it's common though!)
You guys are making awesome content. Amazing work.
Glad you enjoy it!
So close to that magical 10 minute mark!
The new magic Number is 8 minutes. Plus out average watch-time is 7:41. Thanks for tuning in.
@@MunroLive Now I've learned more than I bargained for! Thanks!
Double latch seems safer to keep hood from flying open too.
The FRUNK has a spring loaded LAUNCHER........LOL
I don’t understand why he always mocks european auto makers for making cars safer for pedestrians.
Now *_That_* was _interesting._ The car designers are putting their designs into CAD and the engineers are taking those CAD files and *_not_* partitioning those before handing them to fabrication. (But I bet they still aren't up to an *octovalve* though.)
Bonnet... Instant thumbs up from this Brit :)
Thanks for that!
Hyundai Ioniq or Kia Ev6 would be very interesting with their new platform!
I did some cashier tipping today but she got really mad me as she got up off the ground.
"Apparently pedestrian get hit by car quite often over there (in europe)".
Nah, it's just that Volvo is almost the only car manufacturer that has always really cared about security.
They invented the 3 point belt, and gave it for free. Now they protect pedestrians with this, it's really great.
A shame that it didn't gave them enough reputation and fame to prevent them from being bought by the competition...
Anyway, great video as always, thanks for the content!
Yeah Volvo always cared about security the most. But cars in Europe are required to have these kind of protection systems for pedestrians. It's part of the crash tests.
@@leonj1873 Alright, I didnt' know it was passed as a law (I'm in france btw, but not enough into cars to know about it).
It's even better.
Thanks for the info.
@@xmtxx you're welcome
True but here it's more about the fact that pedestrian safety standards are EU regulations and stricter than American standards.
Sounds to me like "I am being criticised for saying this, that and that, so I call it something new so you can criticise me on that as well." I like that attitude.
Now, will Sandy dare to push the boat out a little further and call the fenders wings? Although I can't understand why people refer to the front bit of the car as a frunk, or a froot, or hood or bonnet etc. and get mad when it's called by another name, at the end of the day they all mean the same. Surly there must be other things to worry about, or are people just too uptight these days and need to see a shrink and get over themselves?
Bonnet! I love it, you sound British now Sandy!
4:46
nr of pedestrian deaths caused by road accidents (2018)
eu (445mil) 5.2k, usa (330mil) 6.2k
Strange, when I checked for 2018 i got % of fatalities that were pedestrians vs occupants. US 17%, EU 20.7%.
@@TheEvilmooseofdoom 17% of how many fatalities?
Population in the EU in 2018 was actually 512 millions.
It would be interesting to see pedestrian deaths versus km walked, since I'd guess the average person in the EU walks considerably further than one in the US. (And add biking km if those classify as pedestrians.)
not strange, the 17% and 20% is the part of the total traffic deaths. But US has 3x higher death rate per capita compare to EU, 12 versus 4 per 100.000. And compare to the "best" in traffic safety UK and SWE, around 2 to 3 ,US has in average x4 to x6 higher death rates per capita. There must be some very unsafe states in US then the average is so high. The averge is higher than "worse" EU member state, Romania 9.6.
Seems clever and much more elegant than the Ford or VW.
I am an avid follower of your channel and watch your videos withing 5-6 hours of uploading.
Mr. Munro not only in England but in a lot of other countries bonnet, boot, windscreen etc is used.
I appreciate you using these terms. I believe like me , many non native of USA follow you.
Please continue to use these terms and if possible please use or put on screen SI units when you mention the various specs.
I honestly like this arrangement best, still can access things like the 12v system and fuses while having enough room for a couple of back packs or tools.
it still doesnt matter tho, the 12volt batteries rarely needs to be changed tbh
Bonnet: checked... so where is the boot? 😁... and it is made out of aluminium... 😅 (the bonnet is)
What’s the deal with the NRA knife? I hope Sandy isn’t giving those bozos money...
In 2017, 5,977 pedestrians were killed in traffic crashes in the United States, In 2016, 5.320 pedestrians were killed in road accidents in the EU
But 100mio more people in the EU (and even more in Europe if that's what was meant) than the US.
The USA is a huge country, about the size of all Europe. 330 million citizen in the USA versus 400 million in Europe, so I say its pretty even.
@@mamadouaziza2536 it only makes it worse, huge country, less people and more pedestrians killed in accidents.
@@mamadouaziza2536 328mio in US. Europe 746mio. Over double the population so not exactly even 😉 If the European Union was what was meant it's 446mio which is still 33% more. So again not exactly even either.
@@faluffel
European Union...
But the USA has more cars and the USA is one country, one large country and the freeways are a major part of transportation..
Might as well throw in brother Mexico and sister Canada and the Caribbean cousins into the mix.
Its unofficially one gigantic nation with folks crossing the borders.
Latches in trunk: As said in another video, it is a safety thing to have two latches. Yes, Volvo is the leader in car safety for a reason... as we all know.
Sandy, love your work. I’d tell those critics to frunk off!
Twice as many pedestrians die in USA, and as an European I'm surprised that Munro don't think the 6500 killed USAian pedestrians matter...
When it comes to deaths in accidents in 2018 17% were pedestrians in the US, 20.7% in the EU.
@@TheEvilmooseofdoom You totally missed the point. Sure you can cherry-pick statistics if it's important to emphasize that killed pedestrians in USA increased from 13% in 2009 to 17% in 2018. But here in Scandinavia we have a traffic strategy called Vision Zero, which is aiming to reduce road deaths. There are several ways to protect pedestrians on the roads, and developing design standards on cars for pedestrian protection is one of them so why neglect it?
The aluminium castings jumped out immediately. They almost certainly provide the side supports for the cooling matrix but I wonder if the meet across the front of the car and if so how are they joined. I know Polestar is now Chinese owned but it is division of Volvo and, having owned three different models, the Swedes design good functional vehicles with longevity and safety built in.
The reason for pedestrian accidents is European towns and cities encourage a mix of all road users... bikes, pedestrians, buses, trams in order to make them thrive. Shopping malls only started to exist in 1970s and have had a devastating effect on city centres. Great video.
Pedestrians getting run over in Europa is a bigger deal compared to USA because there are pedestrians in the first place
The bonnet is correct ;)
Monro back to his best form. Great video.
Thanks!
Your fastener is basically a reusable pop rivet. Rivets are great.
Ah Bonnet, Thank you much appreciated from a Brit.
Yes your Tesla has replaceable fuses. Many.
In Europe there are fewer pedestrian deaths/million than in the USA. They just place a higher priority on pedestrian safety the the USA does
Very satisfying engineering going on here! Also, now that engines are being phased out, will they still be 'engine'ers?
Electrical Engineers.
@@rogerstarkey5390 Electrical "Moto"neers
"Engineer" does not derive from "engine". Instead "engineer" has the same root as "ingenuity", with "engine" being "something ingenious".
@@Graham_Wideman
Here is the joke
Here is your head.
Don't overthink it now.
@@ElDJReturn How could one possibly overthink that play on words. It's the most obvious play on the word "engineer" that could possibly be made. As an engineer, after 50 years, it gets a bit stale. So I thought I could at least add something slightly interesting to this effort.
Woo fancy intro animation--also I love the choice of having music at the end instead of at both bringing and end. I notice the volume seems low at times, I understand if that is a conscious choice, but if not, please turn it up a couple notches. :) I really appreciate the content and insights. It helps me think about market directions and my own inventions, too!
Just rewatched, the end music seems just about perfect to me. Be careful about turning it up, it can become extremely jarring.
Wow that's awesome! I didn't expect a reply--i realize my wording was unclear. I meant the overall volume for the episodes. It could just be my phone, but I find myself able to hear most other content on TH-cam at 90% volume with ambient noise around, but your content I struggle at 100% to understand some of what is said if there is any ambient noise. Again, I can still understand but my brother is a sound engineer so self awareness I may be overly picky lol. Thank you so much for responding! You guys are amazing--such great content. I love it so much!
Ahh, that's fair then. There seems to be no standardization on video volume across youtube/twitch and it can be pretty frustrating when one video is noticeably quieter than another.
Thank you so much. I really appreciate you taking the time to read and respond. It's part of what makes y'all a top notch channel in my mind. :)
I do like the new intro
Bonnets can not be made out of aluminum. They have to be made with aluminium. Hoods are made with aluminum. j/k
Great content!
The hood on the Teslas are 100% aluminum
In Europe its aluminium !
Thank you!
Bonet. Bless you! 😊
The biggest issue with the Polestar 2 seems to be the poor efficiency of the motors, gearbox, wheel bearings, and the efficiency definitely is harmed by the excess height the P2 has (likely from modifying the existing XC40 CMA platform into a BEV) plus it weighs 600lbs more than a Model 3 Performance.
Also… I HATE plastic fasteners. Especially those ones with the little pin hole thing you demonstrated. If you push down too far the pin drops into the abyss never to be found again.
Agreed Tesla do better for efficiency but the others will catch up. Hopefully Tesla can catch up for build quality, parts quality and paint quality.
@@GA-wq8xq Tesla’s Chinese made cars are fine. The reason their paint is probably less durable on Fremont cars is the fact California is so freaking psychotic about chemicals. Tesla has to use some super special kind of water based paint to comply with CARB.
try this, FREEDOM FRONT PART WHERE THE ENGINE USED TO BE. seems catchy.
At the end of the video Sandy mentioned looking below the frunk tub but then the video ended. The next video I see is the hoist video. Is there a video missing?
It would be more appropriate to say, in the UK (United Kingdom), it’s called the bonnet.
Super!
Would you kindly create a playlist with all of your videos? I like to have it on while I work to listen in the background but don't like when a playlist ends and it ends up auto playing another channel. Thanks!
Fancy intro! Looks spiffy!
Pedestrian safety is not more important in Europe because "more people get hit by cars".
It's considered more important because in Europe we care as much about people as America cares about corporate profits.
For the same reason we also have vastly more strict food safety standards, drug safety standards, environmental standards, child safety standards and so on.
Yay! Bonnet! Under the Bonnet is a Froot (Front Boot)
Love that new intro!
Thanks
In most of Europe you are free to cross the road where you want. No j walking laws. Hence higher risk of cars hitting them.
Swedish engineering at its best!
No it's like at it's worst!!!
@@maysammirzakhalili4862 thats what she said LOL
It's a CHINESE car made by the PLA.
Munro are just tearing through all these would-be Tesla killers. Really interesting stuff!
I like the use of bonnet. But did he just say Volvo? Might be appropriate but this is a chinese company manufacturing and desiging in Sweden right?
Really interesting thanks
This is more of a Volvo depsite being owned by Geely (the Chinese company) but I was surprised by Sandy stating Chinese MAKE VERY GOOD CAR!!!( previous video) actually I owned a couple of cars made by some of the China's well-known brands, and it's like everything else that comes out of China, low quality, unreliable with so many issues, never ending issues and sometimes they are life-threatening, believe me, in my country we have access to a signifcant range of models from different Chinese manufacturers and almost everyone here unanimously call them junk.
Cheaper cars usualy have cheap parts
You get what you pay for
You don't remember the 60's and 70's when Japanese cars were considered "junk"?
You have a big surprise coming.
@@WANDERER0070 That's true, but it's no just with their cheaper models, the same issue is with Chinese models with higher price tags, I am not speaking about luxury or premiums price range, I am speaking about models within the price domain of 20000 to 30000 US$, even the more well-known Chinese models with that range of price come with major issues, you get something far inferior with low quality parts, cheap stuff and material all over it, unacceptable issues you almost never see in any similar Korean car, I don't know if it's their greed for more profit or their lack of skills, engineering or technical Knowldge, but it's widespread among almost every Chinese model and car maker.
@@JigilJigil ... interesting
😭😱🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️, the worst place for relays and fuses is under the hood exactly there !!! They are always got rusty and damaged in all kind of car accidents, rainy or by humidity. The ECU in in the worst place near it too. I must insist about those punchings of aluminum to iron !! They got loos during time and in all kind of damages they are weak points !!! Those kind of joints has made lots of airplane disasters 🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️.
FRONT BOOT... gives U the FROOT. Rhymes with *GROOT*
This guy likes cheap plastic clips, Serious? My 2000 Durango use huge hex bolts, even a Russian nuclear bomb cant destroy them. This guy likes poor quality, the same when he liked that Tesla had stop installing clips for wheel arch.
Team Frunk!
Polestar wouldn't have been this great if not Geely China owning them #MadeInChina2025 #BeltAndRoad #OccupyMars 🇨🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳
In Europe we value another's life way more than Americans do. Which is commonly known... So quit that limerick for European hoods!
I was gonna make a joke about how the US solved the pedestrian problem by making it impossible to walk anywhere, but as has already been pointed out, many more pedestrians are killed by cars in the US compared to Europe. The regulators just don't care as much.
Where could I get a couple of extra fasteners online? While taking one off, it went flying to neverland. So only have (3) holding down the back trunk cover currently.
The reason why in Europe we have to take care of pedestrians, is because we have them, unlike the USA there are no pedestrians everyone drives everywhere even for for a 10 feel journy
Don't be silly.
Why didn't you say "there are no pedestrians, everyone drives everywhere even for a 3 metre journey"?
Europeans walked more than United States residents (382 versus 140 km per person per year) and bicycled more (188 versus 40 km per person per year) in 2000
As a Tesla owner, "frunk" is perfectly fine
From Australia: ha ha we say bonnet too and say boot instead of trunk, so maybe we should call the frunk the “froot” here downunder!!!
This looks like a decent cat but don’t like hump on floor at rear. Also, I would never buy a high ticket item from China because funds support their government.
Thank you so much for the knowledge and insights that you shared in the 'Under the Hood' and 'Hoisted' series, I learned a lot! And those kind of technical details are so satisfying and they are so much missing from the majority of car reviewers
Why do EVs need replacement fuses? It seems... old fashioned? Is it because they foresee heavy maintenance and replacement after a while? How does Tesla do it differently? Thanks for all the videos!
The casting behind the headlight may also serve as intrusion deflection ?
Sweden is basically norway if norway didn't find oil. All the norwegian engineers got sucked up by the petroleum industry in the 70's and I do wonder what our engineers will achieve when all cars are electric and the demand for oil drops.
Of course Tesla has fuses. In the older cars, normal melt fuses like here. On the newer ones, electronic fuses, and of course melt fuses on high voltage.
I really prefer melt fuses since it is easier to check for faults, quicker to replace and get working and so on.
It looks like they did not have a clean sheet.