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- Watching car crash tests is horrifying and mesmerizing in equal measure. These crash tests show how much safer cars are after two decades of improved design.
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These Crashes Show the Difference 20 Years Has Made to Car Safety | WIRED
they don't build them like they used to... aka rolling death traps
IIHS raised the bar for car safety. The difference between private institution vs government institution. The NHTSA, government crash test, always lags behind IIHS.
Whatever you say, Ron Swanson.
Can't believe they'd smash that beautiful bel air like that
ITS STUPID.
i hope they pass a bill to allow us to grow organs once all our organ donors from car crashes are gone
Bio-engineers are already working on 3d printing stem cells with patient DNA to create perfect replacements for their failing organs. Vastly reduces chances of rejection, increases availability for organ transplants and no one needs to die. What exciting times
religious nuts will prevent that from ever passing...
This is more like an age gap of 35 years, instead of two decades.
The makers of this video seemed to have conveniently forgotten that the design of the Rover 100 was derived from the Austin Metro, which was developed during the late seventies.
If your goal is to show 20 years of progress in car (safety) design, it's not the age of individual vehicles that's relevant, but the age of the DESIGN!.
The legend27 can survive any car crash
You can either have a super safe car, or a decently safe car and avoid head on collisions. I prefer the latter honestly.
Most people with high driving skill can avoid these crashes. My friend has a roll cage and a harness in his car. He is more safe than most people.
He has also taking professional racing lessons. There is one thing only worries about semi trucks. If there is one in front of him he slows down. One behind him and he goes 100mph just to avoid it
@@IcejjfishTbone Your friend is not a safe driver
Or have a super safe car and drive it super safely. I have a very modern German car and I still drive defensively as if I'm in a 1950s death trap.
1959 chevrolet? What a waste
This is so scary to watch and it’s not even real.
That's all real, and not a simulation
Done in a test facility
@@Nexus104 Yes I know, I meant not real as in actual people crashing like that on the roads.
@@steph4133 oh i see
Well have a good day i guess
I drive a metro and mine doesn't even have an air bag😁
no airbags we die like real men
then get a new car
way too many cuts i couldnt observe what was happening
Shouldn't be mandated. Every car is a studio apartment now. Won't have it. Useless junk.
allow me to introduce jakata airbags
Shame that modern cars are so ugly, and one has to stare at the badge to determine the make.
Yet the fools still says old cars are safer.
They are as long as you dont buy too old or a car before 1990. They chose a tiny car which will always be unsafe.
what about g rating?
As long as humans have some control over the car/truck we will have crashes.
Computers can’t be smarter than humans until they are only interacting with computers. Self driving cars are more efficient, cars are still stupidly inefficient. Public transport is safe, public transport is smart. I have no clue why America simply refuses to improve their public transportation system.
Every car guy cringes at the crashing of that bel air
Not me.
tesla blew them all out of the water with their first try.
Volvo*
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Honda is far better manufacturer anyway. It is a Japanese car, and much better built and higher quality than American or European cars.
Use metrics like 95% of the world.
Arc Kocsog
There's a handy tool called Google.com
All things into account these situations usually don’t happen often however when they do they are quite deadly.
If your car has a long hood that is a huge crumple zone which hill help in a crash unlike many modern cars.
It depends on the specific car and the driver. If you are driving a 1970’s car with a 10 point roll cage and you get under a semi truck you will do better than most modern cars.
If you are at freeway speeds say goodbye modern or classic. The tests in the video are on such extremes you don’t even understand
90% of you will never be in a crash like this.
My classic has a 8 point roll cage and a harness. If I get into a crash my body isn’t moving.
Body not moving is all well and good until you get impaled by the steering column
This is a very flawed test...
How?
shouldve been a 20 y old car with 5 star rating back then vs a new car with 5 star rating nowadays...
@@genericenbynix Because for the 1990s car they used a car which was just a facelifted 1980 Austin MiniMetro.
That's crazy, they're only going 40 mph, imagine when going on a freeway
eddy wolfe 40 is a good average speed to test at, on a highway an accident is often dispersed over a farther distance, maybe a few hundred feet, versus an on road crash at an intersection or into a tree where the car might come to an instant stop. Same reason rollovers can actually be a good thing in some cases, the energy is dispersed through more gradual means than a sudden stop. 40 in a way is the "most common worst case scenario"
Nick Akers That is quite fascinating. Thanks for sharing. Where can I read up more about this?
eddy wolfe into a metal barricade, not a car... cars give
On a freeway, people usually are killed in crashes. The modern safety construction of car only help people in impact at lower speeds. If you are in a crash at 70 mph, you will probably be killed even in new car.
Your dead at freeway speeds, but it's also less likely you'll get into a crash on a frewway
This is actually 40 Years of crash improvements since the Rover 100 is a facelifted version of the 1980 Austin MiniMetro
this is the very reason why I only buy 2010+ year model car
i'm convinced
@Terminator used 2010s cars can be pretty cheap at a good condition.
@Terminator bro 5-10k€ isn’t expensive
But older Volvos can out perform 2010
Yea but what was the Rover 100 crash test rating in 1997? Was it a 5?
That just meant standards were lower.
Or, this could be a comparison of price. An equivalent priced vehicle is now pretty damn safe, you used to need to buy something more expensive for the same features.
Like Sean 5516 said, it scored 1 star, plus the design of that car goes back to 1980. Hardly the fairest or most balanced depiction of crash standards in 1997...
Their first clue that it was gonna suck should've been that it was a rover
That was absolutely horrific watching the 1959 Bel Air, and not because of the dummies.
Why did they have to crash that '59 Bel Air ;-;
Fuck the fresh prince, that's why.
Togrally i think ita the first cat they test it
I need this to be captioned to Spanish so I can send it to my father. I could totally do it (I've translated entire stand up monologues before) but the video is restricted. Help?
choose "translate automatically"
Unless trump gets rid of these regulations too.
I don't see why he would
no idea how this video can or will relate to Trump.
atomixfang How trendy, you tied an unrelated topic to the most overused subject! Gold star for you 🌟
thats only in america man, trump dosnt relate to everything and everyone
who cares if he makes americans unsafe keep that shit to yourself
atomixfang 😭😭😭
Please use kilometers instead of miles. Miles are only used in one country in the world.
Guilherme - Milhouse the best country in the world* 😎
MoonBeamLaser hhauahau I agree! I don't have problems about miles and kilometers notion. But other people may have no idea about the distance because they don't use it everyday day.
Guilherme - Milhouse wasn't expecting a friendly response 🤔have a good day/night!
WIRED is American so that's probably why, but yeah it makes sense to add both miles and km, especially on a video that mentions Europeans.
U r wrong
Cool. Now show what happens to the pedestrian or bicyclist they are crashing into. Car are statistically MORE dangerous now than ever before. When a giant SUV hits you, you are more likely to die. Supporting these cars is like saying people are safer with AR-15s. Everyone else around them isn't.
Cars are not safer for most of us. They are just making it safer for bad drivers to survive.
How much did the auto industry pay you for this ad? SUVs are killing people and have so many blind spots, 15 kids can line up in front and not be seen.
I’ve got a Rover 100 base model no airbags or many safety features if any but to be fair it was a 1980 car with a 90s body.
Very, very interesting
I understand they want safety but they still need to allow the car to be just rigid enough that it doesn't total the car at a light impact such as 30 or 35 mph I can understand maybe 40 mph where it crushes it but these cars nowadays are so fragile that they Crush if you just barely touch something
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Did you ever think about the people who doesnt give a fuck about safety ? No ! you only think about yourselves, keyless entries and push to start buttons ! Poor Chevy Bel Air Why ! Oh FF Sake Why ! What happened ? before cars used to represent personality now their just some disposable plastic garbage.
Would rather have the 1990s car
That Belair is missing 600lbs of iron block V8. BOTH drivers woulda been dead if they had tested a complete car. They might as well use Beamng for crash tests at this rate.
Car sales boost.
personal note: 1:46 brilliant
the comparison is wrong...A Rover isnt even so safe by todays standards in comparison with the other rivals...you had to compare a honda vs a honda
allow me to ride the metro
can u guys test the UE megaboom just like the jambox speaker because UE (ultimate ears ) says it has a shock proof design and someone from UE droped one from a seven story building and litteraly nothing happens to it
Mile?
Still rather have a 50s Chevy
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thats funny i dont see the radar or cameras or the computer that drives the car. Where exactly are the safety features.
The Acura shown does not have sticking up radar towers, instead they are in the top of the windscreen and the grille.
dude sounds like xbox ahoy
I couldn't watch that Chevy Impala get Rekt like that. It brought tears to my eyes
Vexed Knight
it was a Bel air
i very happy destroy ugly old usa cars
That '59 Chevy would have won against that Rover easy.
The occupants of the vehicle, would have absorb the impact, and of course heavy injuries
26th
wow
How fast are the cars tested at?
40 mph I believe
compare the worst possible car from the 1990 to the safest car from 2016. thats fair... surly compare a 1990 honda civic to a new one. bet there wouldn't be as big of a difference
they need to make it safe enough that we can drink and drive and speed without dying
change the design of the vehicle not the behavior of the driver
Ankush, have you seen the roads out there? I am pretty sure 90% of drivers are quite literally, legally retarded.
What was the Rover 100 crash test rating in 1997?
Even in 1997 it was unacceptable.
@@titan9259 Because it was based off the 1980 Austin MiniMetro
@@newwesterngrove Which is no surprise, some GM cars did very poorly in the IIHS tests.
@@titan9259 hello titan!
they should have used buicks
Seems a shame to crash a Bel air
1:23 Really you're going to ruin a classic car for this shit.
BOMBON187 probably a replica man
They destroyed the Belair for what? That was pointless. It's a classic with real value. If you're driving one of these you're probably fling it super slowly and carefully as not to get rock chips on the paint. :-)
Dane Reid could've been a replica
Jared Simpkins hopefully you are right
who cares destroy cars are fun just a old car
First lol
self driving cars are stupid
MMB Gaming and Stuffs why?
+Ritvik Miglani because it is making drivers lazy and dependent like a child and will only cause more headaches financial wise. I'm all for technology but not self driving tech, cruse control Is all I require.
+HoverBasic no thanks but I appreciate the offer
+HoverBasic nahhh
Ritvik Miglani because it takes the fun out of driving