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Do you think a plastic vehicle will fare any better in a collision with the average American SUV or truck?
by iso1631 4y ago
Do you think a plastic vehicle will fare any better in a collision with the average American SUV or truck?
- rwmj 4y agoThis particular vehicle has no safety features, but an EV with some safety features is likely safer as well as being more visible. I wish there was cycling infrastructure and lower speed limits, but that's not how it is now. I used to own an e-bike here and it wasn't very practical.
- HNDV 4y agoAt medium/higher speed collisions? no it wouldn't fare better. But at city street level collision? oh yeah it would fare a huge amount better actually. Not all collisions are the compact this metal box into a smaller cube type of collision. At 30km/h and lower cyclists have a risk that simply does not exist for a vehicle like the ami and other cheap car like vehicles : being driven over. A car can kill a cyclist while driving as low as 1 kilometer per hour if the cyclist fell on the ground and the car is running the cyclist over. You can't "drive over" an ami. Unless you're driving a Monster Truck. As a cyclist I am extremely paranoid about things like blind sides on larger vehicles because it takes very little to kill you. VERY. LITTLE.
- Gordonjcp 4y agoGiven that you can kill all the occupants of an American SUV by getting a fat person to take a good run up and kick the bumper hard, I'd say yes. At anything above a walking pace shunt in a typical Yank Tank, your insides are mush.