Smart car crushed

[nemelek]

Saw this on a recent email.

[Loren]

The crushed car has 5-lug wheels.

[The Architect]

haha fial.

[eTiMaGo]

The crushed car has 5-lug wheels.

+1

Mentally unfolding it, seems a lot moe metal than a smart...

Sandwiched between two heavy-ass trucks like that, I doubt even a Hummer would fare so much better...

[GeneW]

See here at 0:21...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clhIce8hteY


Gene

[GeneW]

http://www.yarisworld.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=26758&stc=1&d=1249087938

Wonder if the Operator was paying enough attention to the world around them?

Of course sometimes you don't get enough time....

[Bob Dog]

I guess that what happens when you drive a fashion accessory...

[Loren]

If this is the photo I think it is, it made the rounds 2-3 years ago and the car was found to be a VW of some sort.

[hachi-roku_fan]

That big rig driver should be put in jail in the vid. He was going waaaay too fast

[JumpmanYaris]

That is not a Smart Car

[tuckevalastin]

an interesting side note...

the amount of lug nuts
amount of metal in the car
fashionability of the car
make of the car
speed limit
as well as a similar video

were all posted before any mention of the obvious loss of life by the car's driver

[Loren]

Some things go without saying.

[SilverBack]

If it wasn't a subcompact then, it is now

[Bob Dog]

Rather astounding to reflect on the fact that there must have been human beings in that crushed mass of metal. The shear amount of metal and the width and design of the spokes on the visable rim strongly suggest that it its not a Smart, note the 5 lug pattern clearly viewable with slight enlargement.

[GeneW]

an interesting side note...


were all posted before any mention of the obvious loss of life by the car's driver

.....was that because of a "lack of compassion" or an understated sense of horror that nobody wanted to discuss?

Apparently you've never been around a death scene? Nobody talks about the dead person because nobody wants to bring the horror to the forefront.

Gene

[GeneW]

Rather astounding to reflect on the fact that there must have been human beings in that crushed mass of metal.

Compacting people along with junk cars was once a favorite way to dispose of murder victims. A machine that can turn a full sized auto into a cube "the size of a coffee table" won't have much trouble with a person.

There used to be a "joke" in some places, such as at "Tube City" in Pittsburgh (a huge manufacturer of seamless pipe who used scrap metals) of some workers removing their hats while a truckload of cubed cars passed on by, to show "respect for the dead".

Gene

[tuckevalastin]

.....was that because of a "lack of compassion" or an understated sense of horror that nobody wanted to discuss?

Apparently you've never been around a death scene? Nobody talks about the dead person because nobody wants to bring the horror to the forefront.

Gene



I've been around death scenes and I assure you I didn't spend my time there arguing over what type of car the person was driving and I didn't forget that someone lost their life.. so that's a moot point.

I'm not saying everyone should have spoke about the loss of life and nothing else, in fact I was interested in the dispelling of the Smart car myth here. I'm just pointing out that it is interesting that the point of death wasn't even brought up.

[Bob Dog]

Especially if the scrap in the iron city came from the hill or the northside....the picture does kind of make me miss my custom deluxe 20..

[GeneW]

I've been around death scenes and I assure you I didn't spend my time there arguing over what type of car the person was driving and I didn't forget that someone lost their life.. so that's a moot point.

I'm not saying everyone should have spoke about the loss of life and nothing else, in fact I was interested in the dispelling of the Smart car myth here. I'm just pointing out that it is interesting that the point of death wasn't even brought up.

I avoid accidents like the plague. Where I saw death was during "Medical Misadventures" when people crashed and then coded during dialysis procedures. We didn't discuss death, we called it names like "hairball" or "loss". There is a huge amount of superstition in chronic care.

For example, I was forbidden to run in the back areas of most dialysis clinics because people running meant that someone had coded. They would not even say the word "Code" in many cases because it was thought to "bring bad luck". Code is also a term for computer programming, so imagine the potential for hard feelings.

So for me to "ignore" death is natural.

Is there a myth about Smart Cars? I did not know of such a thing, though I guess I cannot be blamed for that lack. Anything made by Mercedes Benz is going to be expensive to buy and cost a lot to maintain, so I ignored it.

Gene

[GeneW]

Especially if the scrap in the iron city came from the hill or the northside....the picture does kind of make me miss my custom deluxe 20..

Yeah, probably the murder victims were put into trunks and the cars were "processed". Another way was to have them get injured in steel mills. To my horror I heard that sometimes "difficult" coworkers ended up in vats or "runs" from blast furnaces and "vanished". In some bizarre cases a person would want to disappear themselves so they'd "climb over the fence", faking their own deaths, leaving insurance money and moving on.

What a "Deluxe 20"?

Gene

[tuckevalastin]

When I mentioned myth of the Smart car here I was referring to the fact that these two pictures are shown together as if it's what happens when a Smart car is in an accident. In reality it's a simple case of a small amount of mass between two big pieces of mass and isn't actually even a Smart car.

[Bob Dog]

Custom Deluxe 20 : Ultimate heavy duty military industrial 3/4 ton Chevy Pickup: 350 4Bolt , Borg Warner Heavy Duty floor mounted 3spd with granny, 7 leaf, 8 bolt positraction rear end, beefy suspension and thick ladder frame: a truly great vehicle in a world where gas is 89 cents a gallon.

[GeneW]

Custom Deluxe 20 : Ultimate heavy duty military industrial 3/4 ton Chevy Pickup: 350 4Bolt , Borg Warner Heavy Duty floor mounted 3spd with granny, 7 leaf, 8 bolt positraction rear end, beefy suspension and thick ladder frame: a truly great vehicle in a world where gas is 89 cents a gallon.

Sounds like the drive train for my brother's Camaro, except that his T-10 Borg Warner is a 4 speed, and he has a standard rear end. He uses a "seasoned" Chevy 350 4 bolt main (I helped him to rebuild it) and a Holley 800 CFM.

I can't drive it, the clutch is too sticky and he set it up flaky, with a tricked out cam. It "lopes" while it's idling. One time I tried to move it I had a hell of time with it stalling.

I begged him to get an electronic fuel system but he turned me down.

Yeap, he spends a lot of money for gasoline. I'd rather buy software, books and useful stuff, plus make the little car payment.

Gene

[JumpmanYaris]

Calm down ppl lol

[cali yaris]

on a little bit lighter side: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlSFenzYOvQ&NR=1

[Bob Dog]

I had 2, one a 72 camper deluxe, ane an 85 custom deluxe 20. Just the thin for towing a trailer full of gravel, You could stack green hardwood firewood on the back higher than the top of the cab and the springs would not go down. Shifting the darn thing was like driving a nail with a sledgehammer and it had about the same turning ratio as a big Jhn Deere pulling a 3 bladed plow. Still the clumsy old beasts would go 300,000 miles with nothing but spark plugs and brake pads if you changed the oil and lubed them. My first on had 335,000 on it when it finally succumbed to rust and a worn out syncronizer. I drove the second one for 18 years and sold it for parts when it had a leaking radiator, worn out ball joints. a bad master cylinder, a shot carburator, a block that was consuming a quart of oil every hundred miles, and rust that had been repaired and come back twice. It was really hard work driving those monsters.I much prefer tthe economy and handling characteristics of a well engineered japanese 4cylinder.
Sure have rambled off topic haven't we?