It is just usual that when a small car crash with a big car, the smaller one get pressed hard – or so we thought.
In the standard crash test, vehicles with the same weight are being stimulted to collide with each other. However, the most recent ADAC test made four smaller vehicles crash into a vehicle as big as a lower end midsized car. Surprisingly, it showed that the smart car despite being the lightest and smallest vehicle, can avoid the most common injury – the life threatening injury in the chest.
According to Daimler’s website, they attribute the crash test success to these safety concepts:
key points.
Indeed, Bild newspaper’s comment ring true “only smart is smart.”
Source: Daimler