Colliding with another key car might be even worse than colliding with a bigger car. Bigger cars have large crumple zones to cushion the impact, while key cars have very tiny ones. That's basically two rigid passenger cells colliding with each other. If you collide with a rigid object, your body's going to decelerate from let's say 50 kmh to 0 in 20 cm. Ouch.
And you're suggesting that large cars with large crumplezones should be the norm? Just because they're small doesn't mean they're unsafe. If you're a skilled enough driver, you'd be able to avoid these head on megadeadly accidents that you're going on about.
The larger crumple zone, the safer your car is. Also nice "safety is for those who can't drive" fallacy.
I'm sure a Renault Latitude would perform better in a crash, but my point is that just because a car is small, doesn't mean it's a "deathtrap".
they can be very safe. My Clio mk2 has a 4 star ncap. The mk3 was the first car of it's class to get a 5 star.
My point was that out of two cars of same rigidity, the one with a longer crumple zone is better. Even then, kei cars are very different from Modus. Modus is a normal Western car that is huge when compared to Japanese deathtraps. P.S.: something very wrong was with the Volvo in that video, here's one where it is put against a Yaris. Yaris fared better than Modus in crash tests, yet ends up almost as damaged as the Volvo (which is a 1982 design, to remind you).
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24499113 Not sure about how reliable this is but it's interesting. --- Post updated --- just realised how off-topic this has got
These crashes were at low speeds (13-45kmh). G-forces that can kill you appear at higher speeds. This study only took crashes with injuries into amount and compared injuries. So, if 10 kei cars and 10 big cars crash with 7 people being injured in kei cars and 1 in big cars and the injuries are the same, the safety level of both car types is considered the same.
I agree that the extra g-forces would likely make a huge difference in this scenario when comparing kei cars to regular cars, but I don't think there is any evidence showing that they are "death traps". If I'm wrong then correct me.
Actually, there is another country that taxes cars to hell: Brazil actually 50% of the car's value is just taxes, plus the dollar now worths R$3,76, that means everything is ~3 times more expensive than it used to, aaaaaaaannnnnnnnddddddddd in the incredible time called '90s, cars were taxed by power, that means that cars could only be buy-able for normal people with the max of 99hp, now its by engine size: 2.0 L, still cars are taxed in every place possible
oh it affects, you cant have a 99hp Lincon continental, neither a 99hp dodge ram (diesels were only for commercial vehicles, like buses, old toyota's pickups were taxed as trucks)
It's probably one of these mod vehicles in this link: https://www.worldofmods.com/beamng/cars/brand:lamborghini/
