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Hmm, to bad they do. I don't care what the car was designed to do, if a little car like that hits head on with a 2 tonne SUV, each moving at 50k, it's going to crumple.
I was talking to a tow truck driver that had been to a few accidents involving smart cars. He said in each one there was nothign left of the vehicle.

   

I was looking at one of these recently, and imagining how it would handle in a high speed roll over accident.
Normal cars are longer than they are wide, so they roll sideways.
Smart cars are about as long as they are wide so once it started rolling, it would not be restricted to one axis, but might roll sideways or forewards also.
There's no doubt that the body would handle the stresses but the occupants would be in for a ride.

   

The crash is tricked. The concrete wall is biased thus makes the impact less fatal. The car slid on the side of the road continuing its crash. A straight wall won't give you a second chance to survive. Driving the Smart Car on the Prairie roads during winter, you won't make it home for the Holidays

   

Yeah, well you wouldn't make it home in a Miata, either - that doesn't mean it's not suited for other kinds of driving.

Smart Cars, as I understand it, are for urban transportation... think of it as a scooter with a roof. I wouldn't take one out on the highway, or in a snowstorm, but as far as skipping around in a city, they're probably better than anything.

   

In Soviet Russia, car drives you.

   

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