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’
Growing up on a diet of World Rally Championship highlights and lengthy Gran Turismo 2 sessions, a life in cars was as good as inevitable for Matt.
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That tuck at 5:15 though…
The worst ones are those roll off dumpster trucks. They literally have scewers on the back of them.
why do british people call them lorries
This is the fate of a audi tailgating
This is equally as horrifyingly as the whole guardrail debacle here in the states (which I believe is unresolved) where the manufacturers changed the design of the endings of the guardrail to a cheaper to manufacture design, and suddenly, cars and their passengers were effectively giant shih-kebabs, since the cheaper design didn’t deflect loads off to the side like the old design.
3:55 scared me about the dangers of trucks a lot more now…
Naturally
HyunDIE!!!
It only took 5 years to improve it…
Would it make sense to make a “foldable” guard? So it doesn’t stick out when loading/unloading or driving in cities, but take a more impact-friendly shape on the road?
The difference those improvements made! That really is the difference between life and death!