Sorry Duo,

yep looked at the video before thanks, I've seen other footage of smart crash test too, and they perform well.

Your physics is flawed though, the damage to people in a crash is due to multiple things, the acceleration or deceleration of a light body after impacting a larger body will be different to that produced by the impact of two light bodies or two heavy bodies, the velocitys will be the same but the absorbtion of energy will be different. The energy absorbed during crash is also spread throughout the vehicles, clever chassis design (such as that in the smart) will provide soft zones that bleed energy by slowing direct absorbtion and velocity matching, whereas harder chassis such as the hummer will not bleed as much energy, but will absorb it across it's larger mass. Due to the different ways of absorbing energy you could see a huge difference in visible panel damage between the two vehicles. Plus huge difference to the amount of velocity change.

Personally I drive a huge amount of motorway miles a year and I wouldn't do it in a standard smart, I might consider the for four though.

With most of the people I know in the states you can forget it a) because driving the smallest thing on the road is mentally hard even if you believe that it's safe and b) most of them are on the east coast, when the snow is 18" deep the smart car is gonna die compared to an suv, bet there's not many smarts in scandinavia for the same reason.

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