Smart and Safe?
Posted By Max On May 15, 2008 @ 11:31 am In Life in the Capitol, The District, Transportation | Comments Disabled
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Just as I predicted [2], Smart cars are beginning to infiltrate DC. Not that I’m Nostradamus or something, I mean these cars are cheap and built for city living so it’s no surprise that they’re starting to zoom around like giant mosquitoes.
But are they safe? Yes they are [3]. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has given it top crash scores, however their president Adrian Lund says, “All things being equal in safety, bigger and heavier is always better. But among the smallest cars, the engineers of the Smart did their homework and designed a high level of safety into a very small package.”
I’m half tempted to buy one for myself, but I’m not sure how well I’d fit into one and plus, do chicks dig them?
Photo by kazze [4].
Article printed from Washington D.C. Metblogs: http://dc.metblogs.com
URL to article: http://dc.metblogs.com/2008/05/15/smart-and-safe/
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[1] Image: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kazze/136848051/
[2] as I predicted: http://dc.metblogs.com/2008/01/28/dcs-getting-smart/
[3] Yes they are: http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080514/crash_tests_smart.html?.v=3
[4] kazze: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kazze/
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