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Comment on If I got in a collision with a car from the 70s with a car today, would not the 70s car win out since it would primarily be metal? If so why don't people buy more 70's cars?

marcos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

Yes, the 70’s car would “win out”. Its driver, on the other hand would fare much worse than you.

Ideally, people wouldn’t treat possibly fatal transit collisions as a sports game. And also ideally, most people would see the uselessness of looking at which car is less damaged. Realistically, I know neither of those are universal, but I do hope they are common.

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neidu3@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Yup. Any impacted component that survives means that the force was transferred to the driver instead.

Modern cars look worse after a collision for a reason: If it collapses/crumples, it means that it absorbed some of the forces applied to it.

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- marcos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  The amount of energy absorbed by the cars is the same for both drivers. (What makes that car existence a risk to both parties.)
  
  The problem of the old car is that it transmits the extra force to the people inside in some of the worst possible ways.
  
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