Re:Model 3 achieves the lowest probability of injury of any ...
by King-Aaron on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @01:17AM
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> The engine in any normal car is totally incompressible
This is just an interesting aside note, but my mother was recently involved in a frontal collision while driving her 2016 hyundai i30. In what was approximately a 60-70 kph impact with another car, it was enough to shatter the aluminium engine block in several places, and the engine sort of crushed flat.
I'd never seen a block do that before, at least not in a relatively low speed collision. Wish I'd taken some photos of it. But it made me wonder if modern cylinder block design incorporates any failure points in their design for such a scenario...
Of course maybe it could have just come down to the randomness of crash dynamics.
This is just an interesting aside note, but my mother was recently involved in a frontal collision while driving her 2016 hyundai i30. In what was approximately a 60-70 kph impact with another car, it was enough to shatter the aluminium engine block in several places, and the engine sort of crushed flat.
I'd never seen a block do that before, at least not in a relatively low speed collision. Wish I'd taken some photos of it. But it made me wonder if modern cylinder block design incorporates any failure points in their design for such a scenario...
Of course maybe it could have just come down to the randomness of crash dynamics.