Car safety

even with a full cage, you're in a less good position than a truck. You have to drive a sports car like a motorcycle these days and be very away of everything going around you and keep escape routes open if someone tries to violate your car.

 

Adding more metal inside the car to bang your head on isn't a good idea.

Buy a bigger car or SUV if safety is yuor main concern.

 

I have to respectfully disagree. There are famous file pics of a 40mph off center head on impact. The pics are of an f150 and a mini cooper. I would much rather have been in the mini.

I think it's all relative to what you hit... and that you are in pretty good control of

 

I'd like to see the pics, but one accident doesn't prove anything. Overall, everyone I've heard discuss this has confirmed that big, body-on-frame vehicles (trucks) can inflict massive amounts of damage to smaller unibody-type cars even at low speed.

 

I wouldn't do it unless you plan on wearing a helmet to protect yourself from yourself.

 

Crash data shows you're much more likely to get hurt in an accident if you're in a Truck/SUV than Car. Why? Because cars have to meet stricter regulations on passenger safety. The idea that bigger is better is just sheer ignorance. Cars have crumple zones to absorb impact as your Air-Bag does. I.E. slow the impact down over a given time and reduce it. SUVs because they’re classified as trucks (in order to get tax breaks and emissions breaks) don't need to meet the same crumple zone tests and passenger safety. So, when you get in an accident in energy of the impact that would normally be dissipated by the crumple zone gets transmitted directly through that stiff frame to the passengers. Just because the car or truck might look fine on the outside doesn’t mean the passengers on the inside are.

Would a roll cage help you in an impact? Yes, it would help grad against intrusion. Newer cars, and some older ones such as Volvos, actually beef up their roof sections, A,B, and C pillars (if they're a 4 door) which is an ipso-facto roll cage. Double bars inside doors these days also work as a "integrated" cage once the doors are closed.

Are you going to hit your head on it if you put one in and have an accident? Depends on how tall you are and where the A-pillar, roofline is.

 

Well one way is indeed to buy a bigger well made safe car. Also you may want to try and go a step further than the 3point seatbelts and go with 4point they seem to work better. The thing with big cars is your more likely to cause/have an accident in one because of the size! Not to mention the lack of aerodynamics and horrid gas mileage. Tend to be slow to.