Impact at 10 km/h without seatbelt

Impact at 10 km/h without seatbelt

[@craigsurette3438]

Ive experienced a sudden stop at about 10km without a seatbelt, and the sudden hard knock of my head against the windshield was a very clear wakeup call . Even at that speed i had a nasty headache and a mild concussion

[@dyoung1998]

Crazy how many people are still watching this video

[@steffankleine5901]

Then you are a Idiot

[@HockeyLegend-wd4yi]

yooo 1 day old and pinned? in this 7 year old vid? danggg

[@Benieg83]

Soft.

[@mushrooka]

Maybe try wearing a seatbelt lol

[@SuperFuzzyDunlop]

Imagine if the operator accidentally typed an extra 0

[@noncalamari]

"oops..."

[@earthwormscrawl]

or two...

[@H982FKL-TG]

"....silly me" ​@@noncalamari

[@thepeskyone]

my fault g

[@DemoNova]

Imagine if he accidentally typed ∞

[@mindaugasrugienius]

Ok now let's try 100 km/h

[@Brightsop]

Life flashed before his eyes.

[@SomeRandomGuy-hb5yv]

oh no

[@MercedesW203AMG]

ok now let's try 300 km/h on an autobahn with an audi RS6

[@MercedesW203AMG]

@@sailyui why not with an audi RS6

[@LorosiPeloso]

Just put the video at ×10 speed

[@asifiqbal1117]

With no seatbelts, 10kmph: Destination reached. 140+kmph: Final Destination.

[@dustysmoke4996]

That's known as destination f***ed.

[@nvjd6867]

can die even at 60

[@brandyballoon]

140? I've seen someone smash a windscreen with their head at 50km/h.

[@mogstonks6250]

Impressive… very nice. Now let’s see Paul Allen’s 10 km/hr collision.

[@aakksshhaayy]

@@mogstonks6250 how about paul walker's

[@cheesebusiness]

The beeping was scarier than the impact

[@zrATT_]

"Have you ever heard of... the *scooping* room?"

[@spacebear916]

think it wouldve been scarier with the beeping sound from "2001 explosive bolts scene"

[@girishm5880]

Yes

[@jessicakinnucan3822]

I started looking around my living room thinking the fire alarm was going off😂

[@MajorChernobaev-w9i]

OK, now imagine the beeping 10 times faster.

[@adamcummings20]

"Speed has never killed anyone. Suddenly becoming stationary, that's what gets you." - Jeremy Clarkson

[@wrongthinker843]

"It ain't the fall that gets you, it's the sudden stop at the bottom"

[@06dpa]

"Oversteer is best, because you don't see the tree that kills you"

[@octavelapize6657]

I asked someone that fell from the 40th floor if he was fine, he told me "atm i'm at floor 13 and everything is ok"

[@randomystic8602]

@@06dpa 😂Classic line from Hammond, man I miss the old Top Gear

[@Twistedpaolumu]

It's not the fart that kills you, it's the smell. (fart=speed, smell=impact)

[@yesman121]

Imagine sitting down in a ride at an amusement park and you see the operator blessing you.

[@B7R8]

*Meanwhile you can't get off from your sit...*

[@JoshuaPlays99]

Id probably laugh my ass off if it was a ride I had been on before.

[@richhoops2413]

"Got em"

[@PanduPoluan]

The guy operating the machine actually prevented serious injuries by doing the cross sign before starting the simulation.

[@HaloDude557]

Why was he blessing him though lmao

[@FunkkyPanda69]

Anything can happen when you live your life 10km/h at a time bro 😂

[@onzir]

Maybe as a joke but yeah.. 😅

[@willmcclard206]

he put a blessing over him😭

[@Providence..]

It's hilariously ironic that this comment has 666 likes as of right now.

[@YooperBanjo]

Let's see Paul Allen's 10km/hr collision.

[@gandalfstormcrow7943]

Impressive… very nice. Now let’s see Paul Allen’s 10 km/hr collision.

[@garfield50096]

Impressive… very nice. Now let’s see Paul Allen’s 10 km/hr collision

[@SolarPoweredTorch1]

Fascinating... impressive... very nice. Now let's see Paul Allen's 10 km/hr collision.

[@mikerolfe1842]

Bravo Vince

[@aliveandwellinisrael2507]

@mikerolfe1842 The path of the machine down the track and inevitable impact symbolises Walt's inevitable downfall... or something

[@BigBurger7611]

Excelent work agent 47, the money has been wired to your account.

[@labyrinthus304]

I Understood that reference.

[@JonatasAdoM]

I had just made a mention of that above.

[@xaf15001]

It does feel like a sabotage opportunity

[@CharlieH412]

Don't forget he was still wearing his suit for the silent assassin rating.

[@alfredforbessealy524]

What's this, james bond ?

[@PaulG.x]

I saw a video about accident impacts. The guy in the video recounted how he asked various members of the audience what speed they thought an impact with minimal injury might be after explaining how an unrestrained passenger impacts the interior of a vehicle. Most said between 30 and 80 kmh. He then told them that an average runner runs at around 20kmh and invited anyone to run head first into the brick wall for the entertainment of the rest of the audience

[@strobi0001]

National champions run at speed of 20km/h. This is 3:00 minutes per km. And the presenter forgot to put elasticity in the equation of collisions.

[@gayusschwulius8490]

​@@strobi0001That's if we're talking long distance running. For a short sprint, 20 km/h is actually a pretty normal speed for someone who's not that well-trained.

[@aoyuki1409]

@@strobi0001 average human can sprint 20km/h for a few seconds

[@strobi0001]

@@aoyuki1409 Sprinting was not mentioned originally. Anyway, the whole story is like, if you watch from far enough and neglect as much as possible, can be true. If you understand physics, you can decide by yourself.

[@nessa-parmentier]

​@@strobi0001i mean with your corrections it's even more striking though ? You probably don't want to be running directly into a wall, even at a speed which doesn't even reach 20km/h because most people don't run that fast. So applying that same logic to car speeds, you REALLY don't want that happening (especially without wearing a seatbelt)

[@thepizzaman8064]

Here's the algorithm blessing a random crash test video six years ago

[@ARivera_303]

😂yea

[@juhajuntunen7866]

Ou Yeah.

[@Rocko1990]

Isn't that weird. Why does it happen?

[@alvarorodriguez1592]

Because it knows it can serve us any shit and we still be watching it.

[@Doug_Fany]

And the operator helping

[@ItsDeffoScott]

Anyone who has come off a bicycle has experienced a faster crash. Crank that up.

[@sixpest]

Yeah no kidding I ran into a tree at 19 mph on a bike

[@anvildragon7927]

@@sixpest I've crashed my bicycle at 45 km/h or 28 mph

[@bjb7587]

In my 20s, usta pedal my bicycle down a long hill with two lanes of light traffic on my side. 30 mph. No helmet, probably wearing shorts and tshirt, sewer grates on the edge. Traffic signal at the bottom. Idiot. Then I started skydiving. Good times, meaning I survived. 🙄😁

[@seanmccuen6970]

bicycle? you meant tricycle, fukwit.

[@PaulG.x]

I fell off motorcycles at 100kmh or more several times. These are not impacts at 100kmh unless you slide into a stationary object. The biggest impact I experienced in each case was falling from a seated position onto the road surface. You can reproduce this impact in your kitchen by falling off your chair. I did suffer a small bruise in one of those incidents.

[@BenTobitt]

"What speed do you want to try?" "Let's start with 'Drunk Guy In Parking Lot'"

[@the.seagull.35]

Wait did we skip over "Woman Backing Into You While Reversing out of her Parking Space"?

[@Cicrosed]

I like the correct use of both quote types at the end, happy to see I'm not the only one. :D

[@daz3745]

Had a 30 mph head on crash about 30 years ago. Wearing a seatbelt. I still have the scars. Edit: I never thought this comment would have got so many comments. To clear any confusion. What I'm saying is I wore a seatbelt and have scars that are still there to this day. Imagine what would have happened if I wasn't wearing a seatbelt. I knew I would be in a really bad way without a seatbelt. I've never really thought about it much until I wrote the original comment but wearing that seatbelt possibly saved my life.

[@ixyzyxi]

At least they aren’t on your face

[@daz3745]

@@ixyzyxi and no broken neck either.

[@cheesebusiness]

I was in a crash wearing a seatbelt. The chest hurt, but I got fully ok after several days.

[@anthonygorham5299]

Unless u were both doing 15mph. It was a 60mph head on collision. That’s why most people die even at low speeds. When ur approaching each other you have to add the speeds. Edit: For all u numb skulls. It’s not like hitting a wall at 30mph. The fucking wall is doing 0mph while the opposing car is doing 30mph. Come on people.

[@daz3745]

@@anthonygorham5299 I don't think that's how it works. If both cars are of a similar weight it's basically like hitting a solid object at 30 mph.

[@Relbo]

A friend of mine was driving down an old logging road going back to his camping site. He dropped a smoke on the floor, stopped the vehicle, but let his foot off the brake while he bent over to look for the smoke. He couldn't find it so he was down there for maybe 10 seconds and in his mind he had not even moved, but in reality the car was slowly accelerating to somewhere between 10-20 kph and veered off the road into a tree. He is now in a wheelchair for life he broke his neck and will never walk again... The car wasn't even damaged like seriously not a scratch. You just never know what might kill you.

[@exMuteKid]

Handicapped for life over a single cigarette. Wow, id never be able to live with myself. Everyday not being able to walk and just imaging all the things id be able to do if it were not for a single cigarette. Just imagining it is making me depressed.

[@anyexpat]

Smoking is bad for your health

[@Ogrematic]

They had a demonstration like this at the state fair. People were so surprised when they flew out of the seat.

[@JaydenPlayden]

yeah but this device and those devices you saw aren't really accurate, a real car always absorbs some of the energy of the crash while these things only simulate a sudden stop from 100% to 0%

[@Ogrematic]

@@JaydenPlayden You ever been in a car crash, dumbass?

[@GewelReal]

​@@JaydenPlaydencrumple zones dont work at such low speeds

[@JaydenPlayden]

@@GewelReal yeah so it's not realistic

[@DarkShard5728]

​@@JaydenPlaydeni don't care if it absorbs literally 90% of the speed, i dont imagine you stub your toe at more than 5 kph and that hurts a lot, on just one toe. 50 kph isn't that fast, your head is way more sensitive to damage than your toe, and i seriously doubt it actually absorbs 90% (which probably wouldn't really help anyway since the sudden deceleration is why crashes are dangerous and its not like it gets 5 minutes to slow the car down).

[@TheoneGodfather]

I’ve impacted at forty five with no seatbelt. It taught me a valuable life lesson.

[@Shrimp_Insurance]

What broken glass and asphalt tastes like?

[@catsozen]

How you can actually do a perfect backflip?

[@TheoneGodfather]

@@Shrimp_Insurance Definitely broken glass. My passenger wasn’t wearing his either and we both went into the windshield. My dad tried for years to get it though my thick head to wear my seatbelt but I finally understood that day.

[@newagain9964]

False.

[@TheoneGodfather]

@@newagain9964 What is it now troll?

[@yassinewaterlaw6597]

Absolutly no survivals

[@jenswurm]

It's amazing how easily people underestimate speeds. Hitting something at 10km/h is like falling from a height of 40cm. Not too bad, but you feel it 20 km/h already is like falling from 1.5m height. Faceplanting on concrete like that already can kill you. 30km/h is like falling from 3.5m height. Ouch. 50 km/h corresponds to almost 10m fall. 70 km/h corresponds to 19m fall 100 km/h to 39m fall. Of course, if you are the one who is going fast and you don't hit a wall but slide across the road, then it's less extreme. But if you're a pedestrian who gets hit by a car or even a SUV or truck, then the above pretty much does apply.

[@JonatasAdoM]

Interesting comparison. It's one thing to crash at 10 K/ph Now, to be hit at 10kph by a car? No, thank you.

[@vali2638]

Cars have crumple zones. You can't say that the force felt by a driver in a 40km/h head on CAR crash is the same as coming to a full stop instantly. The car structure would take some of the forces and expand them all over the main structural parts. The shock would not be as strong as in the first situation...

[@jenswurm]

@@vali2638 depends on the vehicle, that's why i mentioned suvs or trucks with their reinforced steel bar cow catchers.

[@illiiilli24601]

Broke my hand doing 30kph on my push bike on a blind bend (stupid, I know).

[@justalonelypoteto]

​@@vali2638 to some extent sure, but I hardly think it would absorb most of the energy. The car itself sure, but if you are not connected to the car by more than the friction of the seat surface and maybe your foot on the pedals, then the smoothened deceleration of the car can't do all that much for you. Ultimately, the car around you will be well on its way to stationary while you are still flying at almost the speed you were driving at, and whether you hit the dash at 30kph or at 25, while likely a non-insignificant change of outcome, will still hurt like an absolute b!tch and send you to the hospital

[@c0mputer]

We had one of these in my driving school and they asked us how fast we think we could go and brace without wearing a seatbelt. I said about 5km/h but some idiots thought they could brace at like 40km/h. We got on the machine one after the other and I think did a test without a seatbelt at like 10km/h and one with a seatbelt at like 20. Obviously those people changed their minds.

[@jrgenlervik9374]

At my driving school they turned down the speed because someone broke their collarbone at the normal speed

[@Just-A-YouTube-User]

@@jrgenlervik9374what was the normal speed lmao

[@heatxtm]

@@jrgenlervik9374 but they make a point hahaha

[@LSC69]

nah 40km/h without a seatbelt is crazy. that's like riding an electric moped at full speed and crashing without any protection. not fun.

[@jazzabighits4473]

With a seatbelt I reckon I could live at over 200km/h. Source: f1 drivers crash going those speeds (and faster) and walk away just fine.

[@James_Gower]

I can't bring myself to watch. Did he live?

[@Kamletue]

No

[@packerman7410]

No he exploded all over the wall

[@ethansprague2005]

His spine shot out of his back

[@tobypcarreonisepic8297]

No he exploded and died

[@ninethetwotailedfox]

@@packerman7410 oh no!!

[@avengedlol6698]

I love that the simulator has tail lights.

[@JonatasAdoM]

Didn't even notice that!

[@badouplus1304]

You never know, someone might be tailgating, they are everywhere

[@CharlieH412]

@@badouplus1304 Probably a BMW

[@the.seagull.35]

This would be a perfect intro for a CSI episode. Everything's normal at first, but when they press the start button the car gets launched into the wall at 250 km/h and the guy dies. Then Marg Helgenberger comes in to figure out who tampered with the controls.

[@JonatasAdoM]

"Good work 47, now head into an exit"

[@pigs18]

YEEEEEEEAAAAAAAHHH, Who are you??

[@stevangucu522]

I like that the control guy gives a blessing to a test subject 🙏

[@CarlosHernandez-we1yr]

Not only without the seat belt ... also without adjusting the headrest to avoid whiplash!

[@jaydenbrockington4525]

Headrests only have to be at eye level to avoid whiplash. They don’t have to be tall

[@hahihohuhey]

No, the top of the headrest has to be level with the top of your head. Also, the space between the headrest and the back of your head should be no larger than 4 cm (slightly over 1 inch) while driving.

[@AdequateName.]

?😂😂

[@babybirdhome]

It doesn’t have to be level with the top of your head - it only has to be high enough to not allow it to cause your skull to be detached from your spine on impact. And it also only needs to be that in a rear-end collision, which is not what was happening here.

[@mariosebastiani3214]

What whiplash... in head-on collision? Whiplash is if you're struck from behind.

[@ryanthompson591]

My cousin was in a very low speed crash. She didn't wear a seat belt. She was paralyzed for many years. RIP. If she wore a seat belt she would have walked away.

[@oboy_64]

I've been in an 8km/h crash simulation with seatbelts, and even though its slow, it does hurt. You dont receive any damage, but I felt it for the next 1-2 days.

[@mywifesboyfriendisfire]

Then, by definition, you received damage.

[@JonatasAdoM]

@blockededited8280 This is like equating victims to survivors.

[@jazzabighits4473]

8kmh isn't much at all lol

[@Aboutallinfo]

​@@jazzabighits4473perhaps, it isn't much, but it's about a double of the speed of walking. Doesn't it hurt, if you would hit the wall, just walking forward with standard speed of ~4-5 km/h?

[@jazzabighits4473]

@@Aboutallinfo Slightly. But you get harder impacts playing footy and getting tackled, especially when you're running and someone else is running into you. I understand there is "give" because running into a human isn't like running into a wall, but the higher speeds should make the forces about the same (or higher in terms of footy, especially a shoulder charge).

[@kelleren4840]

Man's lucky to be alive. Thoughts and prayers for him and his family!

[@puftepos]

That's a matter of detail, but when a crash between a car and a wall occurs at the same speed as in your experiment, the car's structure will deform and will absorb some of the energy of the crash, therefore the inertia of the body will be somehow lower (in your experiment there is no deformation, therefore the entire energy of the crash is transmitted to the gentleman sitting on that car chair). The same applies when there are two cars each travelling at 10 km/h, both of the cars will absorb some of the energy. Of course, this is no excuse for not wearing the seat belt - this is mandatory at any speed one would be travelling!

[@56independent42]

Except for when i have a bike and i'm zipping down the hill at 30 km/h

[@A_youtube_channel_]

@@56independent42 I've gone 50 on a flat road on a bicycle, would not want to crash at that spped lol

[@56independent42]

@@A_youtube_channel_ I would not want a crash to occur in any vehicle.

[@snorman1911]

Without a seat belt, the car absorbing the force of the crash does exactly jack for you - you continue forward at the speed the car was going. That's why you wear a seat belt, so you decelerate with the car.

[@johannlopez4524]

That won't help an unbelted person. That would only be the case of the car and person were attached as a rigid body. In the case of no seatbelt, they are separate, unattached. The car may slow down and stop but the person will keep going at the speed the car was going until it hits something to stop it. In a lot of cases, the hard dash or the pavement outside of the car.

[@c-028]

This machine can be a great tool to promote tool to promote traffic safety in science museum and motor show.

[@tattvamasi5717]

At 10 km/h you can see the sticker on the wall. At 100k m/h you are the sticker on the wall.

[@creasicle]

It's kind of scary how we are so used to seeing cars going up to 80-90mph that we forget that even at 10k a car has serious impact.

[@bearman_1826]

I don't know why I expected the chair to jettison him towards the wall.

[@EttoreB93]

Same, I was like "why there's no padding on the floor too?"

[@aazxcasd]

ok now imagine no anticipation

[@SwampCityRadio1974]

The worst bicycle accident I ever had was at 1-3 kph. I bunny hopped my front wheel up onto the kerb and the wheel came out of the quick release. Just went face first into the pavement while tangled up with the bicycle. I lay there for quite a while in shock before a motorist stopped. Sometimes, the lack of momentum to distribute force over time and distance i.e. sliding makes for a very harsh impact.

[@JonatasAdoM]

I had a similar crash. Hit a hole on the street and the bicycle stopped and that made me spin into the ground. After the hit the bench kept going and hit me in the back of the head causing some bleeding. I was in such shock that I wasn't quite there processing what was going on. It was weird because I was calm though.

[@RaimaNd]

That's why I use a seatbelt all the time, even when I driver my car inside the garage 5 meters away from the garage. You never know.

[@VXGaming]

He's now going to claim everything from head to toe on his insurance after this.

[@paulmaartin]

That's what the Brits do and how they can't afford anything

[@Neopopulist]

Family friend died from a 20-25 mph crash without a seatbelt, it may seem slow as heck but cars and their deadliness are no joke.

[@JonatasAdoM]

Worst of all is that you don't feel you're fast.

[@spreddyreds9408]

The reaction of the body expecting a collision vs the reaction of the body not expecting a collision would be different.

[@TIOLIOfficial]

Those are some rookie numbers, you gotta pump those up.

[@genichiroashina6372]

Lol

[@Bobloblaw624]

Has anyone set up a GoFundMe?

[@ninethetwotailedfox]

yes

[@OldSchoolOfMasters]

What is it?

[@BotulinSpikedMarzipan]

​@@ninethetwotailedfoxHi, ferret

[@anneominous7172]

No - but I believe a GoFuckYourself is in the works.

[@A.J.1656]

This is a good demonstration of what might happen to an unsecured bag of groceries. You could lose an egg or two in an accident of this magnitude.

[@joelthomastr]

This should be mandatory at all driving schools

[@Krakencifer]

Drove a guy to his job at the hospital a few times. He never wanted to wear a seatbelt, but I told him "You either wear it, or you walk" 😒

[@subhajitkarmakar22]

Back then they tried this with dummy dolls. Now human population has increased so much, they can do with real human beings.

[@stratecaster547]

"Impressive, lets see Paul Allens impact".

[@wildtrickster4135]

Imagine running your max speed straight into a wall, that won't kill you but can definitely hurt and injure you quite a lot depending on which part made contact first, might take a few days or even weeks to heal. That is about 12 kmph. If you don't ever wanna experience something similar or MUCH WORSE, wear a seat belt.

[@johnkopp1486]

Speeding doesn't kill, becoming stationary suddenly is what kills

[@alexflosho]

For Americans, this is 6MPH aka 3 garbage cans per mississippi

[@ToastyMozart]

2.3 Barrett M82s per second.

[@renevos5822]

My driving instructor told me about this and that they actually stopped doing this, because people actually got injured.

[@okaycook1307]

They didn’t even use a dummy, they were just like, “aight Phillip, sit right there”

[@CRITICALHITRU]

Seeing a dummy and feeling it yourself are different.

[@JonatasAdoM]

@CRITICALHITRU To us watching he wed the equivalent of a human dummy.

[@throughthoroughthought8064]

*hits "send" button. "...Dummy."

[@Dorf274]

This is definitely a accidental-kill-setup for a Hitman mission.

[@paulfaganpianist]

What even scarier is that, based on physics, the forces climb exponentially. So a 20mph crash is 4 times this 10mph force, 30mph is 9 times the force and a 50mph crash is 25 times the force.

[@Nithavela]

Its 10 kph, not 10mph.

[@DerekGreen15]

You're right on the numbers, but the word is quadratic, not exponential.

[@Nithavela]

@@DerekGreen15 quadratic is a form of exponential function, more specifically one where the exponent is 2.

[@DerekGreen15]

@@NithavelaNo, an exponential function is of the form b^x, where b is the base and x, the variable, is the exponent. A quadratic is of the form x^e where x, the variable, is the base, and e is the exponent, in this case 2. If you graph both functions, you'll see that they have very different behavior.

[@marceld6061]

@@Nithavela The measure of speed is irrelevant to the point at hand (kph vs mph) the effects will be the same.

[@BurningSovereign]

This video did what it said on the tin. Respect

[@nafvol5053]

Imagine if he accidently typed in an extra zero and made him crash at 100 kph

[@mrs.angelson]

Did anyone notice the operator drawing the sign of cross? Most wholesome thing I've seen today. ❤

[@Spartan536]

10 km/h = 6.2 mph, this is NOTHING in terms of speed, yet watch how much he gets FORCED out of his seat by MOMENTUM. Newton's 1st Law (it's a law, not a suggestion): An object in motion stays in motion unless acted on by an outside force This means the "car" stopped but you keep moving forward until you hit something. Now if you are wearing your seatbelt, guess what, you hit the seatbelt, thus stopping your forward momentum. If you are not, you get thrown into the dashboard and windshield. Now imagine that guy getting thrown into a windshield at that speed, it would likely give him a pretty damn good headache. That was just 6 miles per hour, we travel more than TWICE that speed in RESIDENTAL AREAS (typically 15 miles per hour), so DOUBLE that force, now you have a guaranteed grade 1 concussion at just 15 mph without a seatbelt. Now lets move on to city roads at 30 miles per hour, we can effectively double the previous result, congratulations you now have a grade 3 concussion with a possible skull fracture and you may have broken your windshield with your head. Now lets move on to our last example, city highway speeds which tend to be 45 - 50 miles per hour. You are guaranteed a grade 3 concussion, TBI, brain bleeding, and you WILL shatter your windshield with your head, skull fracturing is almost a guarantee here. Your instant L/D (Live/Die) chances are 40/60, that's INSTANT DEATH chances. Wear your damn seatbelts.

[@timharnans]

Also don’t put your feet up on the dashboard, it’ll mean you’ll be shoved into the footrest area in an impact from the front.

[@JonatasAdoM]

Pee are dumb ignorant fools. Telling them might just make them do it. Motorcycle riders only wear helmets to avoid tickets. Put that into perspective.

[@JoaoGomesPT69]

I don't think the title is accurate, I think it's more like 5~6 km/h. At 10 km/h he would've hit the wall.

[@theshermantanker7043]

Why is this surprising? Humans can run at about 32km/h, so simply imagine yourself running into a wall at full speed for a feel of what impact is like

[@anyexpat]

@@theshermantanker7043 Anyone who ever played rugby with Jonah Lomu does not need to imagine

[@PhilippensTube]

People grossly underestimate the forces upon your body during a crash. This 10mph 'crash' shows how it affects you. Now this is a grown up with (heavy) protective gear. Now imagine a child in the car, unrestrained. Some time ago there was this program on BBC where a woman told her story about driving her kid to school in busy traffic. She was going about 15mph, and her son was not restrained and standing between the front seats when she suddenly had to brake hard. Her son was thrown to the front and landed with his belly on the gear lever and died of his injuries...15mph...

[@quineloe]

this is more like 6 mph.

[@petit.croissant]

the real scary thing is the scaling of the energy with your speed squared

[@throughthoroughthought8064]

Then maybe the thing stopping your momentum is an out-of-control fully-loaded semi.

[@Dr.Bob85]

What did it for me: As a kid I would watch the tv’s that the Mercedes garage my dad worked at, on it they had all the crash tests with shots from outside and inside the car, but more importantly cases where passengers/driver were not wearing seatbelts. If you’ve seen a very reel crash test dummy punch its face in a dashboard - or worse - it’s skull through a windshield then those 3 seconds to buckle up are a real no brainer

[@Drunkenvalley]

I don't think the comments here get the point, which is that even at really low speeds that shit would launch your face into your windshield and steering column in a real car. This test is only safe because there were no material obstacles.

[@justalonelypoteto]

Very importantly, the guy also had almost 3 business days to expect the wall and impact, bracing yourself at this speed is still possible with enough warning. Considering you can brake to standstill in under a second from even double this speed, there's no accident you could ever get into where you could ever brace like this (because you could easily just stop the car before ever hitting something), unless you're not driving and whoever is is sleeping, or you're sitting in a parked car and someone speeds directly into you

[@ZenithWest169]

I've ask my students every year, "Do you think it's safe to drive 20mph without a seatbelt? What about 15mph? What about 10mph?".... (32kph, 24kph, 16kph respectfully)... I then ask does anyone know in mph how fast they can run? I ask the track students what there times are at 100 meter dash... We then calculate it mph or we have the students sprint across the lab. Its usually like10-20mph. So I think ask, "what do think would happen if you run full blast without slowing down into that brick wall?"... "What if you went head first?" Then why would you think it would be safe when your going 10mph, wreck, and slam your head into the windshield at that speed? A seatbelt distributes the force over a large area. It give slightly also.

[@Traveller5pl]

Did the guy survive?

[@kenesys8713]

While he was having breakfast the next day he exploded

[@jacksonmasco]

this should be the very first thing shown to every single person who gets a license

[@andrewthomas9884]

I'm wondering how does your average bus driver throw you out of the seat without crashing?

[@JonatasAdoM]

Sudden stop of momentum perhaps? Maybe they're faster than it seems or it's the size.

[@Zoomii5]

Buses are much larger vehicles, so the impact is distributed more.

[@RishabhSharma10225]

I had a collision at about 25 kmph, wearing a seatbelt. We all think we can brace and survive easily at 'low' speeds like that. But that day I realised I'll never drive without a seatbelt. It's so sudden, and the strong tug from the belt made it clear that without it, I would be half through the windshield. Even at a low speed. It's no joke.

[@larrypicard5969]

There does not appear to anything that puts this video in context. The setup resembles a car interior but there is no steering wheel or dash board. It looks like some of the force of impact is diminished by the test subjects transition to near-standing. Whatever the braking mechanism that brings the seat and the subject to a halt will have an influence on any potential for injury depending on the level of deceleration. The screen at the end of travel would have less potential for injury if it could absorb energy like an air bag or a pillow. A hard surface like metal or concrete or even glass would have different implications.

[@JonatasAdoM]

Also accidents do not happen in a vaccine. As soon as you stop, the car behind you can hit you. a car can hit you on the side, etc.

[@SanctusPaulus1962]

​@@JonatasAdoM Well I sure hope accidents don't happen in a vaccine. That would be dangerous

[@TerribleResults]

Excellent work, 47, now make your way to an exit.

[@docwatson1134]

I was surprised how, with his feet firmly on the floor, the upper body move UP! So specifically up, not forward. I can definitely see how banging the top of my head into cab roof would hurt, would distract and disorient, and very much impair my driving skills. Right at the moment I need them most to maneuver out of an oncoming crash. A good reminder to wear a seatbelt. And drive smart.

[@marceld6061]

As his feet didn't move (gripped on the floor even a small amount) his body in motion rotated around that static point. Hence, he came *up* out of the chair. In an average car, your knees tend to be straighter with your feet more in front of you. Unbelted in a crash you slide off your seat making contact with whatever is in front of you. Modern cars have 'knee bolsters' softer dashboards and air bags to put something soft between your head and hard bits- like glass. Yes, wear a seatbelt. Don't trust that your smart driving will compensate for the other idiots out there.

[@misusatriyo]

that's a load of bells and whistles for a 10 km/h impact

[@realpremier]

he is sending it 😂

[@kinocchio]

Seatbelt: destination reached No seatbelt: destination f*cked

[@jamiemyers4696]

full speed plz

[@Banana_Split_Cream_Buns]

Good to see Don Rickles take it easy on you.

[@daisyandlani4481]

Ok, now let's break the sound barrier without a seat belt

[@bod-7268]

Let us appreciate how KZbin recommends us this 6 Year Old Glory video

[@VictorCozmei]

I for one really appreciate it (⁠✷⁠‿⁠✷⁠)

[@Bod-ih7if]

KZbin is being weird again.

[@jeffrie2002Duck]

​@@VictorCozmei Where was this video located btw?

[@VictorCozmei]

@@jeffrie2002Duck In Malta, at a Road Safety Conference.

[@JaranDalsbo]

I got to try this when I took my license here in Norway. It surprised me how much of an impact 10 km/h can be.

[@JaranDalsbo]

It was with the seatbelt though

[@jackmehoffer7819]

Let’s put convicts back in the drivers seat just like the 50’s

[@lowandslow3939]

It’s a good thing we drive in mph. That will never happen to us!

[@anneominous7172]

This tickled me

[@JonatasAdoM]

The British drive in the other seat that isn't even present. They'd wouldn't even accelerate.

[@needsmoreboosters4264]

Remember, even a 25 km/h impact with no seatbelt is the equivalent of sprinting headfirst into a wall. Cars are much faster and heavier than our normal perceptions of speed and mass are used to.

[@Boss_Tanaka]

They could have made it a prank . Tell the Guinea pig it will be a 10 kph impact when in fact you launch the seat at about 50 kph. If the guy is upset just yell : it’s a prank bro! Come on it s a prank brooooo

[@lykou1821]

50 kmh ejection prank #sued #hospital

[@danek_hren]

Wtf is kph

[@dariootero5579]

@@danek_hren 1 kph = 8745.61 burger patties per hour, and 9.12 football fields per hour. there you go you american 🦅🦅

[@a64738]

Yeah I know on youtube robbing a bank at gunpoint and attempted murder is considered "pranks"... And the most sick is that youtube allow these "prank channels" doing things that normally give you 10 years to life in prison to go on posting, just because they call it a "prank".

[@warrax111]

Feel the power of impact of Angry Grandpa on wheelchair

[@TheElvisnator]

me in ksp 0:24

[@Xenrel]

Remember that kinetic energy is proportional to the square of speed, meaning that at 100 km/h the impact is 100 times as much energy behind it as in this video.

[@TumbleTrashOfficial]

dude killed himself for content o7

[@markifi]

zero survivors in a 2 km radius. really sad

[@TumbleTrashOfficial]

@@markifi Even worse than what I heard. RIP all those involved. o7

[@coastalrocks]

"its just a back seat, no need for seat belts"

[@SmtCrew1312]

i mean in a car at 10 km/h the car would absorb all the impact tbh

[@TinyGreyOwl]

True. But it will also absorb impulse of your body without seatbelt. You won`t like it even at 10 kmph.

[@TaiViinikka]

You're exactly right, but the problem is that you will hit the inside of the car at 10 km/h after it has stopped. The slower deceleration of a well-engineered car doesn't help you much when your rib cage is smashed against the steering column (etc.)

[@ToastyMozart]

That's not how this works. Crumple zones spread the deceleration of the car out over a longer period of time, but someone who isn't strapped to the car will get flung forward with the same speed difference regardless.

[@justalonelypoteto]

The car will stop relatively smoothly compared to the video, but that hardly matters for crash severety here. Usually, that crumpling is great for you because it reduces your speed a lot before you start kissing the steering wheel, but for it to be of much help this smooth(er) deceleration needs to be able to affect you. Without a seatbelt, you pretty much only have the friction of your pants on the seat, so the amount of force the car can transfer to you is quite small, i.e. you will not decelerate much whilst the car crumples. However, you will decelerate soon after, just that the impact will be with the dash and the crumple zone will be your face

[@felixg.6493]

At work nobody was wearing seatbelts. No public streets, maybe max 10-30 km/h. Everyone was safe if he drove consciously and could immediately support himself if needed. But on public streets it's different, wear seatbelts or die.

[@markchristian787]

The data proves that people with seatbelts actually think they can drive faster and more dangerously and have a tendency to get into more accidents.

[@kenesys8713]

???

[@markchristian787]

@kenesys8713 its called the Peltzman effect

[@kenesys8713]

@@markchristian787 that's literally just a theory lol

[@markchristian787]

@kenesys8713 its proven, look at the data thats out there. Do you know how that makes sense?

[@kenesys8713]

@@markchristian787 it literally can't be reliably proven, hence why it's a theory. ever heard of correlation=/=causation? Regardless, you're either a troll or a very ignorant person, and I have no intention of conversing with either any further. Have a good day :)

[@drnike591]

"I thought he said 100" -- carl the prisoner

[@Skelturoth]

I was involved in a 10km/h collision (my aunt didn't set the wheel straight after taking a curve after a stop), so she hit a small truck at a very low speed. now, living in eastern europe and given the fact that it happened about 15 (or more) years ago, i didn't wear a seatbelt. I slammed my head so hard against the glass that my head hurt for the next two days. Now I'm looking for a seatbelt even on a bicycle.

[@jeffbenton6183]

I was expecting this to be much worse, but kept reassuring myself - if it was going to be that bad they wouldnt let him try.

[@mesniburek.]

Except that in a car crash you dont come to a complete stop instantly 😂

[@Mr-Damage]

I rolled a semi many years ago and the one thing that saved my life was not wearing my seatbelt. If I had of been wearing it I would have been crushed and pinned but saying that it was a 1 in 100 situation and I've worn one everyday since.

[@localneo-graphic4647]

You know, I saw this and thought, "that's not very fast, I bet that means the impact will be surprisingly powerful." No, it was just exactly what expected from a 10 km/h crash and that was it. For some reason KZbin wanted me to know that.

[@silxvrrr]

seatbelts save lives, kids

[@ThomasGrillo]

Back in the late 70s, the police department had one of these setup outside a mall, and it allowed us to experience low speed crashes, but we had to wear seatbelts. From then on, I never forgot to strap in. LOL

[@MegaCalum11]

It's almost like an object in motion tends to want to stay in motion.

[@MaximusMin]

this video should be shown to every person taking their driver’s test