Cheap Chinese electric cars are coming to the US and Europe

Re:Cheap Chinese electric cars are coming to the US and Europe by freehunter on Monday February 04, 2019 @04:25PM (#19080781)

Two cars of the same mass hitting each other head on at 25mph is the same as one car hitting a solid (immovable) wall at 25mph.

Regardless, a bicycle moving at 25mph being hit head on by a car moving 25mph is going to be (at best) comparable to this thing getting hit at 25mph.

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Re:Cheap Chinese electric cars are coming to the US and Europe by Phlarp on Monday February 04, 2019 @05:03PM (#19081084)

Maybe _you_ can only go 25mph, the other vehicles have no such restrictions.

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Re:Cheap Chinese electric cars are coming to the US and Europe by freehunter on Monday February 04, 2019 @06:14PM (#19081639)

Again... same is true for a bicycle. Or a pedestrian. Or a Segway. We can argue physics and legalities but no one has seemed to touch the actual substance of my point, which is "does this thing need to offer better crash protection than its closest competitor, a bike?"

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Re:Cheap Chinese electric cars are coming to the US and Europe by tk75x on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @03:23PM (#19089412)

Two cars of the same mass hitting each other head on at 25 mph will be the same as one car hitting that wall at 50 mph. Remember p = mv and m1v1 = m2v2

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