Here's A Horrifying Compilation Of Cars Being Crash Tested Against Truck Trailers
These IIHS crash tests from a few years ago highlight the inadequacy of many lorry underride guards - which are supposed to prevent cars from sliding under trailers
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) was in the news this week for its test of a trio of modern muscle cars, all of which failed to nab the organisation’s ‘Top Safety Pick’
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Just had to, I’m sorry.
they didn’t include this test
They’re not “trucking” around.
Do you really expect things to look pretty when you smash into a semi truck?
WOW, the difference between a pass and a fail is AMAZING, and also terrifying. The first trailer shown to fail, the 2013 Great Dane, failed in a spectacular way. Seeing that made me really mad, trucks are inherently dangerous on the roads to begin with and the manufacturer seems to put little effort in to safety. Considering how many of these things are on the road it makes me wonder why there isn’t more being done about it. I mean retrofitting wouldn’t not be hard to engineer, paying for it is another thing. But i’m sure at one point or another we’ve all been bored driving on the highway letting our minds wander and you see a particularly old trailer with rusted out bumpers made out of what would appear to be small gauge rebar, and you think to yourself what kind of carnage would follow if somebody where to slam in to it. It’s unfortunate that truck beds are directly at eye level for most passenger cars so it HAS to be up to the truck manufacturer to put in place safety precautions that actually work, instead of simply looking like it works. I hope this issue is being taken seriously, some of those crash tests were tough to watch.
I would say: lower your ride or god will do
In a test where cars will be crushed, they should have used a prius
If you’re about to rear end a trailer, please duck
Unless you’re a tailgating BMW or Audi, you should be fine. This is why you’re supposed to give space. I’ve always wondered how those small steel bars were supposed to stop cars. Looks like most of them don’t.
So to sum it up, you WILL die