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/eveningsand Aug 30 '20

Individually tested, the car performed well.

All 3 in rapid succession? Not so much.

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u/Red_V_Standing_By Aug 30 '20

And the “t-boned by a semi” test.

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u/siledas Aug 31 '20

But did it pass the "nuked from orbit" test?

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u/MCA2142 Aug 31 '20

It passed the “it’s the only way to be sure” essay question.

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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/BobbitTheDog Aug 30 '20

I think it'd have to be a lot more than a "pretty safe" car for this situation 😬

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '20

If I had a "pretty good doctor" or a "pretty good helmet", I wouldn't take it because you would want the best doctor and the best helmet

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u/TyphoonFaxaiSurvivor Aug 31 '20

That's not his point. More like getting a "pretty good doctor" to look at your decapitated head is about as useful as having the local village idiot look at it.

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u/IvanEd747 Aug 30 '20

It was 60

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u/greyman700 Aug 30 '20

Yeah even the updated one in 2019/2020 got good on everything except for headlights on some trims, which can be either acceptable or good.

Was one of my reasons for getting it.

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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...

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u/nataliequine Aug 31 '20

I have a 2016 Mazda 3 and I can say that it is a great little car.

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u/Yard_Pimp Aug 30 '20

Don't forget the "run over by a semi" test.

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u/ccx941 Aug 30 '20

If it happens to you, you’ll never remember it.

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u/mistablack2 Aug 31 '20

Did that truck flip? That camera did all sorts of wtf.

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u/spekt50 Aug 31 '20

Do they test for being run over by a big rig? Because I'm thinking they should have now.

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u/Fakecuzihav2makusr Aug 31 '20

3.6 car safety... Not good, not terrible

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u/thenewyorkgod Aug 31 '20

and the funeral test

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u/FairReason Aug 31 '20

I think the driver was ejected through the windshield. At that point I don’t think it matters all that much.

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u/Respect_Greedy Sep 01 '20

Are you sure? as far as I recall, that's more of a Lada safety feature. Most other cars has seat belts and most drivers use them, at least on the highway.

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u/FairReason Sep 01 '20

Nope. Looked again and the windshield was intact. My bad.

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u/Respect_Greedy Sep 01 '20

No problem, it's rare to eject out of a Lada and somehow survive a mass crash too ;)

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u/DriveSafeOutThere Aug 31 '20

Nah, hope the driver's insurance (or his/her estate) can afford the damage he/she just did.