http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9WWbdmU9Iw
Another one same car
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vC-JPdVTCo
Another one same car
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vC-JPdVTCo
Reza
New Chinese Car Crash Test Holly ****!!!!!
The better and safer you build them, the heavier, less fun, and less efficient they become. At some point I'd like to just accept a certain level of risk from driving.
Obviously, I wouldn't want to be driving that underengineered Chinese car, but on the other end of the scale, I don't want forty-five airbags in a 3800lb subcompact car. I'm probably already taking more risks than I know by driving a compact Dodge designed in 1978.
Obviously, I wouldn't want to be driving that underengineered Chinese car, but on the other end of the scale, I don't want forty-five airbags in a 3800lb subcompact car. I'm probably already taking more risks than I know by driving a compact Dodge designed in 1978.
That doesn't look that bad.
Also, we don't know the speed. Without that, you can't really judge it at all.
Also, we don't know the speed. Without that, you can't really judge it at all.
ZX3autoxtasy said:
From the test information:
Yea, sorry any part of your head impacting any part of the car, even at moderate/slow speeds can be fatal. The brain afterall is soft and squishy.... It doesn't take a crushing blow to hurt yourself.
The new 2007 Brilliance BS6 (made in China under the name of Zhonghua) - I guess BS stands for bull****.
The test was performed at 40 mph (64 km/h) into a deformable object simulating another car.
The head of the driver is supposed to be stopped by the airbag - and not the dashboard.
To open the driver's door afterwards, the test crew had to use a crowbar, a tool that first hand witnesses don't have. It is essential that the door can be openend with little force to aid the passengers. The driver would have suffered severe injuries, maybe would have been dead.
The car achieved only one of possible five stars in the EuroNCAP rating.
The key for a safe car is to build a strong passenger cell and effective crumple zones that absorb the energy. As you can see in the video the passenger cell collapses with fatal results (more)
A better and safer car doesn't necessarily have to be heavier and less fun. For instance, the MINI Cooper is an excellent crash test performer. Take a look at this link. http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/database/aspx/searchmedia2.aspx?database=v&tstno=4273&mediatype=v&v_tstno=4273.OmniFocus said:
When you look at crash test videos, always look at the A-pillar for deformation. You don't want to see buckling at all. That goes for any of the area surrounding the cabin. Buckling of the A-pillar and sub-frame causes intrusion into the occupant area, which causes more serious injury.
The A-pillar and roof should never collapse like that. That car would never make it onto American roads. An off-set crash like that will cause more damage as the front crash bar is not absorbing the energy fully. But you do want energy absorption.
When people see cars that are completely smashed all the way in they automatically think that the accident must have been horrific and that there's no way a person could survive. Or that the car is a poor crash performer. But this isn't always the case. Energy management is crucial to surviving a crash. If the car absorbs most of the energy during a crash, then that just means that there's less energy for your body to absorb. But their should not be any intrusion into the cabin by the vehicle.
what about that GIANT piece of glass flying by the camera in the first vid. isn't that stuff supposed to be tempered or whatever they call the glass that comes in cars so it DOESN'T shatter like that.
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anyway maybe they should stick to makeing small cars...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYn2Q4OGWYg
anyway maybe they should stick to makeing small cars...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYn2Q4OGWYg
Thats how almost all Chinese copy-job products are. They copy the style of another car to give it the appearance of being a good product, but crack it open and its 3rd world tech with cheap impure chinese metals on age old casting equipment with next to no quality control. Right now, the Chinese industry, with a few exceptions, is good at cranking out high production inexpensive goods.freekwonder said:
If you want a plastic whistle... get it from China. If you want a complex heavy piece of mechanical equipment, get it from Japan, Europe, or NA (non-union work preferably heh).
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