Model 3 achieves the lowest probability of injury of any car tested by NHTS

Re:Model 3 achieves the lowest probability of injury of any ... by wiredfool on Monday October 08, 2018 @02:04PM (#18169756)

Small overlap drivers side collision is basically a partial head on collision on a two lane road?

Seems like the drivers side is far more likely to encounter that sort of collision.

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Re:Model 3 achieves the lowest probability of injury of any ... by perl4ever on Monday October 08, 2018 @02:25PM (#18169948)

I don't have statistics, but what if a person is driving along a street with parked cars and someone pulls out such that the impact is on the right corner instead? That seems like a plausible scenario.

Or a car is unexpectedly stopped in the right lane because of an accident or a police stop. I came around a corner with no visibility today to find a police car attending to a wrecked vehicle on the right.

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Re:Model 3 achieves the lowest probability of injury of any ... by wiredfool on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @03:59PM (#18188333)

First, The energy of a head on collision is twice that of a perpendicular collision. (+-, depends on mass and such). This also applies to car -> stationary car.

Second, one of the basic rules of the road is that you have to be able to stop within your sight distance.

Driver side offsets were a bad type of collision, and they were particularly bad in older body on frame cars before that sort of testing, and when there were a lot of 2 and three lane roads.

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