Re:To buy a Tesla Model 3, only to end up in hell
by jdietrich on Monday February 10, 2025 @07:55AM
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>How much safer are they?
A lot. Probably the biggest single change was the introduction of the small overlap crash test by the IIHS. It turns out that the standard frontal crash tests are quite unrealistic; in most frontal accidents, the driver swerves to avoid something but clips the corner, rather than just slamming into something head-on. Cars designed to perform well in the standard frontal crash test often performed miserably in the small overlap test.
Compare the same model before and after the small overlap test:
Re:To buy a Tesla Model 3, only to end up in hell
by ornornor on Monday February 10, 2025 @04:12PM
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Surprised at how much the dummy’s head misses the airbag in the 2013 model but hits it almost in the center in the 2016.
Re:To buy a Tesla Model 3, only to end up in hell
by tobyhinloopen on Monday February 10, 2025 @11:00AM
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The best crash is the one being avoided - I had my modern car save me from slipping 2 times with the ESC. (stability control)
Re:To buy a Tesla Model 3, only to end up in hell
by bufferoverflow on Monday February 10, 2025 @06:39PM
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The safest cars basically saturated the safety tests. To the point where car companies are making up their own tests, simulating much more dangerous collisions.
But 20 years ago was 2005. What's changed on a modern car since 2005? There's obviously a lot more safety features (and these have increasingly been part of the crashworthiness rating cars are given). But if you crash into a wall at 40mph, how much stronger are they?