Given the importance of planned weaknesses in cars, like crumple zones, how do armored/state cars that don’t have these features remain safe in the event of a crash?

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I’m thinking specifically about how breakable safety glass is important so that you can escape through a broken window if your car falls into a body of water, or how crumple zones are designed so that it’s the car that gets smooshed, rather than your brain and organs. But official state cars, like Cadillac One/”The Beast,” have bodies that are way stronger/heavier than a normal car and bulletproof glass windows, so how do they protect the occupants if there’s some kind of freak accident?

(I realize that the best plan is to avoid such a situation in the first place, but given that Cadillac One is hermetically sealed to protect against gas attacks and has electrified handles to keep people from getting in, I can’t imagine that no one has ever considered “what happens if the car accidentally ends up in a lake?”)

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Answer 1

Risk is relative. Is a presidential or monarch’s limo more likely to be in a front end collision? Or to have an assassination attempt?

It’s not like many heads of state get into their cars a little drunk to head to Kroger and buy some snacks. If everybody was driven by a professional driver in a well maintained car who was sober, trained, and at work, then what the risks of being in a car are would be very different.