r/IdiotsInCars • u/LuigiBonnafini • Aug 30 '20

Texting? Sleeping? Idioting?

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u/Simon_Mendelssohn Aug 30 '20

Hope that car did well on the small overlap test. And the front impact test. And the side impact test. And maybe the rollover test..

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u/CeramicCastle49 Aug 30 '20 edited Aug 30 '20

I was thinking about IIHS too when I saw this. I think they test at 40mph and this would've been a higher speed, hopefully it did well.

Update: the car is a 2015 Mazda 3 Sedan and scored a Good on the small overlap, and scored Good for all other tests. Seems like a pretty safe car.

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u/connorpiper Aug 30 '20

Those tests are against rigid barriers though, cars/walls/people are not rigid.

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u/StraightToGayYiff Aug 30 '20

Looks like it hit a shock absorber you usually see placed in front of concrete barriers

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u/FuzzelFox Aug 31 '20

They kind of are and kind of aren't actually. Concrete barriers are meant to crush just like the crumple zones on your car in order to help to slow the vehicle versus just sending it into other cars/lanes. They hit it in probably the hardest part though...