Yaris vs. Camry - Yaris looses

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Originally Posted by roxy1

reading is a skill. since some frontal collisions with trees and other solid barriers are obviously head on collisions, and car on car head on collisions make up for 1 in 50 of crashes, then obviously more than 1 in 50 crashes are of the head on variety.

And that has what context to me talking about 2 cars hitting head on, with perfectly oppositely aligned forces. That is the ONLY thing my original post was about - any real world situation, someone will attempt correction, giving a tangent to the force, rather than having it crumple the entire vehicle from being perfectly aligned. You chose to start talking about trees and crap, which is pretty much when I stopped trying to understand what you were talking about.

Originally Posted by roxy1

physics will clearly show that hitting a tree head on will impart more damage than two cars hitting each other going 25 mph.

A car going how fast hitting the tree? And lets just pull some more random numbers out of nowhere to confuse the situation more.

Originally Posted by roxy1

the abilities of a car to withstand these types of crash tests has relevance in the context of any type of head on collision regardless of the object.

Sort of true, but more useful data could be obtained from more realistic tests.

Originally Posted by tamago

why are you two arguing about this?

are you new to the idea of internet forums?