Here's A Horrifying Compilation Of Cars Being Crash Tested Against Truck Trailers
These IIHS crash tests from a few years ago highlight the inadequacy of many lorry underride guards - which are supposed to prevent cars from sliding under trailers
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) was in the news this week for its test of a trio of modern muscle cars, all of which failed to nab the organisation’s ‘Top Safety Pick’
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Just had to, I’m sorry.
they didn’t include this test
I felt so bad for that car.
They’re not “trucking” around.
Do you really expect things to look pretty when you smash into a semi truck?
That’s what the underride guard is supposed to, keep it from being to ugly
No, but we at least expect not to be decapitated.
WOW, the difference between a pass and a fail is AMAZING, and also terrifying. The first trailer shown to fail, the 2013 Great Dane, failed in a spectacular way. Seeing that made me really mad, trucks are inherently dangerous on the roads to begin with and the manufacturer seems to put little effort in to safety. Considering how many of these things are on the road it makes me wonder why there isn’t more being done about it. I mean retrofitting wouldn’t not be hard to engineer, paying for it is another thing. But i’m sure at one point or another we’ve all been bored driving on the highway letting our minds wander and you see a particularly old trailer with rusted out bumpers made out of what would appear to be small gauge rebar, and you think to yourself what kind of carnage would follow if somebody where to slam in to it. It’s unfortunate that truck beds are directly at eye level for most passenger cars so it HAS to be up to the truck manufacturer to put in place safety precautions that actually work, instead of simply looking like it works. I hope this issue is being taken seriously, some of those crash tests were tough to watch.
It all comes down to production costs. The logistics business isn’t interested in paying extra for safer trailers, they only want cheap ones. The trailers are bought for the cheapest price possible and are run until they rust away, because maintaining a trailer is on average more expensive than getting a ticket for having insufficient maintainance on one.
Terrible, isn’t it?
I guess the lawsuits filed by families after someone dies are cheaper to settle than fixing all of the trailers the company has manufactured. Not saying that’s right.
School buses don’t even have these guards…
I would say: lower your ride or god will do
Lol, or you can say truck will do it for you!
If arent living a low life, you are living a no life -
In a test where cars will be crushed, they should have used a prius
nah they use a high safety rated vehicle to see if its a pass or fail.
If you’re about to rear end a trailer, please duck
Unless you’re a tailgating BMW or Audi, you should be fine. This is why you’re supposed to give space. I’ve always wondered how those small steel bars were supposed to stop cars. Looks like most of them don’t.
Except its not always the drivers fault in the car .. Do you know how often I´ve been in the left lane doing 140-170 and suddenly a bus/lorry pulls into my left lane , no warning with 90km/h. Not only once did I have to completely smash my brakes in or do a highly risky maneuver when there were 3 lanes and a little gap left to escape certain death. And I havent even done more than ~4-5000km on the highway yet. I always watch the lorries speed on the right lane very closely, if I see someone going a little faster than the others or tailgaiting another lorry, I automatically assume he will try to kill me seconds later..
So to sum it up, you WILL die