Airbags are triggered by computer. Computer has a set of parameters when to deploy an airbag. There is no mandatory cases when airbag must be deployed.
Look how high the car was hit. Of course the air bags would not deploy. Thats all sheet metal damage, no structural damage. Any car would react the same....
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the man stating that he would only buy chinese products for the rest of his life is an interesting statement.
looking at china's 5000+ year history and its habits of closing its doors to the world after they feel they had enough foreign presence, 'i' personally would be very 'concerned' and 'cautious' about investing (ie technology advancement & manufacturing) in a 'communist' country.
intel, ibm, cisco etc are all scrambling to set up shop in china for whatever reason (lower costs most of the time). profit margins may be great...for now...but again, be very cautious...nothing is free. as my dad taught me as a child, 'the slowest way to make money is the fast way'.
from the comment section...read them, theyre pretty good... here is a great link to a chinese car crash test. i 'think' i will stick with mercedes for now!!!
That is stupid thoughts.
My theory is the car probably braking hard prior to crashing, causing the car ducked under the van and didn't trigger the airbag sensors (judging from the bumper is still intact and seemed in good condition - ie. never actually made contact with the van)
And judging from the chinese car crash test, the guy would've been dead by now had he driven a chinese car in the crash. Of course then he won't live to vow to only drive mercedes for the rest of his life
Ok I may be exaggerating a little, but as of today i don't see any chinese car has earned the safety rating even close to Mercedes, not to mention the sonderklasse mercedes.
the man stating that he would only buy chinese products for the rest of his life is an interesting statement.
looking at china's 5000+ year history and its habits of closing its doors to the world after they feel they had enough foreign presence, 'i' personally would be very 'concerned' and 'cautious' about investing (ie technology advancement & manufacturing) in a 'communist' country.
intel, ibm, cisco etc are all scrambling to set up shop in china for whatever reason (lower costs most of the time). profit margins may be great...for now...but again, be very cautious...nothing is free. as my dad taught me as a child, 'the slowest way to make money is the fast way'.
from the comment section...read them, theyre pretty good... here is a great link to a chinese car crash test. i 'think' i will stick with mercedes for now!!!
China is still a developing country. Their economy while still communist has been rapidly evolving away from strong central control and is shifting rapidly to a market driven one. The growth of middle class working citizens has caused an explosive growth in private vehicle ownership which under the previous hard line commies would have never happened. This has caused China to become a major consumer of foreign sourced crude oil and has partly been one of the reasons oil prices have gone up.
As for safe cars, they are using a free market approach the way conservtives would like to see adopted here. You get what you pay for with nobody telling you that you must wear seat belts or buy safety equipment you don't want to pay for. Volkswagen has been building cars in China for a very long time and the cars they build are equipped with all the safety features that were required when they were certified in the EU. That means the latest generation of VAG products like the current Golf V meet all of the current requirements in the EU and the first generation Golf which is still in production in China meets the standards in effect the last year it was built in the EU which means an older body structure design but still equipped with airbags and belt tensioners. Buyers who are unwilling to pay the price for VAG products are free to buy Chinese designs that may not comply with any safety standards.
China exports some of the finest quality products you can find and also some of the worst much like Japan was doing back in the 1950's. It's all a matter of what the importer has specified. The crap sold by WalMart isn't crap because it came from China, but is crap because WalMart chooses to sell products designed and built to it's specifications that require low prices to be more important than quality.
I am sure that any Mercedes built in China will be built to the same standards expected of all Mercedes products.
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It's all a matter of what the importer has specified. The crap sold by WalMart isn't crap because it came from China, but is crap because WalMart chooses to sell products designed and built to it's specifications that require low prices to be more important than quality.
Not quite true. Remember the pet food and toy problems from commie land? I don't believe the pet food company would want to save few pennies and go with dangerous products. Same as the toy company, there is no way Mattel choses lead paint to save money and sacrifice the safety of our kids.
What is the root of the problem? Commies got no ethics.
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