Big vehicles/long vehicles happened more dangerous do you know that tiny cars unsafe?or large cars(big vehilces) happened more dangerous?
The international vehicle safety reported recently that the IIHS(Insurance Institute for Highway Safety) recently performed some expensive crash tests where subcompact cars(or tiny cars) were crashed head-on into large cars. Predictably, the subcompacts did not fare well against their larger brethren.
What was alarming was their inaccurate conclusions from the test. They concluded that tiny cars are unsafe. This is an incomplete and misleading conclusion. Smaller vehicles are always unsafe when smashed into at high speeds by a larger vehicle.
The Camry used in the test would have seemed just as unsafe as the Yaris if crashed into Toyota''s huge Tundra(or other large cars), just as the Tundra would have seemed unsafe when meeting head-on with a swiftly moving dump truck. On the other side of the coin, the Yaris would have seemed quite safe when involved in a collision with a motorcycle. The point is that the larger vehicle always wins but that doesn''t mean the smaller vehicle is unsafe.
You could easily conclude not that the Yaris is unsafe but that the Camry is dangerous. A heavy vehicle capable of travelling at high speeds could be described as a danger to other smaller vehicles on the road. If the majority of cars were sub-compacts, they wouldn''t seem unsafe at all, since any head-to-head collision would likely be with a similarly sized car.
Smaller, lighter vehicles are a necessary part of the future as the world slowly runs out of fossil fuels. The only thing the IIHS press release has done is to confuse people who were thinking of doing their part for the environment, and their wallets, by buying smaller vehicles.
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