Euro NCAP Crash Tests on Heavy Quadricycles

[@OuchMyHooves]

I'd only feel safe in the Twizy.

[@yas10000]

Love it when the dubstep kicks in ;)

[@eliaskorsvikaarli7975]

The rsnault look good

[@Leonaristo]

Safety is important. In that case, how about motorbikes? They are also legal to be driven on the road and some of them with performance comparable to super cars. If Quadricycles to governed by stringent safety requirements, does it mean motorbikes should also be treated the same?

[@datsatoilet]

No. A motorbike can't really be safer. As long as you're not fastened to the bike. The Quadricycle has more room for improvement, as it's pretty much just a small car. Therefore it would be plausible for the manufactures to create a safer vehicle. They just try and keep the cost down, and they are keeping it down by saving on safety.

[@shobin05]

that is so true

[@v_alexiadis]

Christian Moeller Exactly!

[@gustaveliasson5395]

​@@datsatoilet 8 years late, but anyways, if memory serves it's actually a weight issue. I can't recall if it's a EU standard or just a swedish thing, but here the so-call "moped cars" have a maximum service weight, sans driver, of 425kg (fully fueled and ready to go, but with no people or cargo inside), and are allowed to carry up to 260kg of additional weight (driver, passenger, pcargo). Now, I'm honestly quite happy that there's a vehicle type that's legally prohibited from experiencing the sort of weight and size growth that's been happening to normal cars (nevermind the growing american cult of the SUV), buuut... I do own a Ligier JS50, and in two years of use I've had to visit the shop three times due to malfunctions/failures in the door locking mechanisms at low temperatures (swedish winters can be pretty "crispy", turning any kind of moisture into superglue).

[@samarnold5275]

seat belt brake off in one of them they should not be on the road and that just into a wall what happen if it is a over lap

[@minidriversouthsweden5137]

You’re probably going out through the windscreen and surf the blacktop with your face. Just saying.

[@boisegameshowguy]

Whoops! You’re dead 💀

[@gustaveliasson5395]

The belts are intentionally engineered to successfully fail at high loads. This is because during a crash, the belt restrains your torso from moving forward, and the inertia of your head will cause severe stresses on your neck while your torso remains restrained by the seatbelt. If the tension gets high enough, your neck snaps, and so the seatbelt is designed to snap first. Some belts even have "rip stitching" whereby a portion of the belt is folded and stitched onto itself such that the snapping of these stitches allows the belt to de-tension itself more than once during an impact, further reducing the stress on your neck and appendages.

[@name-gt2qz]

how old can you be to drive one of these

[@benhaggerty8707]

16 for light quadricycles

[@samuelemusmarra242]

In Italy 14 for light

[@vladimirlenin777]

Test the ape 50 piaggio pls, it is a heavy tricicle

[@joker_g7337]

Those EU rules are so strict, that I am not allowed make my old-timer safer. I need to keep it as is. Why do you prevent this?

[@walterbyrd8380]

Compare a quadricycles to a motorcycle. I suspect a quadricycle is much safer. Yet, motorcycles have always been legal.

[@mrjohn5836]

motorbike is a killer of it owner

[@eddiecheah4642]

LOL

[@mrjohn5836]

man . motorbike = death

[@DaveDVideoMaker]

I don’t like quadricycles.

[@gustaveliasson5395]

They're funny-looking to be sure (short and stubby, and generally oddly proportioned compared to regular cars), but can be quite practical in a small town with relatively low traffic. I myself have a second-hand Ligier JS50 and while it has had a lot of issues with the door-locking mechanisms (mostly cold-weather-related), it's plenty enough for grocery shopping on rainy days (I prefer taking the bicycle when the weather allows). I've even gone to the hardware store and "crawled" home with some 3.6m wooden beams and planks for home projects. Had to build a small ramp-cradle-thing to bolt down where the passenger seat used to be in order to have somewhere to fasten the cargo straps and hold the wood in place, and a sawhorse-like support structure in the cargo space, but it works. While flimsy, these vehicles have their uses.