| ▲ | tandr 5 hours ago | |||||||||||||
by the looks of it... any front collision == instant death? | ||||||||||||||
| ▲ | evilos 23 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||||||||
They very much designed for collisions. They have an engineer discussing those aspects this video. | ||||||||||||||
| ▲ | OkayPhysicist 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |||||||||||||
It's an EV, so what little nose it has is probably all crumple zone (as opposed to having a big ol' engine in the way. Popping the hood on most EVs is pretty funny, actually, because of how little there is under there. | ||||||||||||||
| ▲ | monooso 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||||||||
I know nothing about automobile design, but the Smart Fortwo [1] seemed to solve this problem just fine (IIRC they had a very good NCAP safety rating). | ||||||||||||||
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