Why aren't we building cars made out of the hardest material known to man, diamonds...

Cars are designed to crumple instead of stay solid, because it absorbs energy, reducing the impact on the human bodies inside.

You want to have at least some parts of the car be ductile or breakable to absorb the energy of a collision.

>absolutely undestroyable
...except by fire.
youtube.com/watch?v=TPyuDY3iq1Q

Due to extensive research done by the University of Pittsburgh, diamond has been confirmed as the hardest metal known to man. The research is as follows:

Pocket-protected scientists built a wall made of iron and crashed a diamond car into it at 400 miles per hour, and the car was unharmed. They then built a wall out of diamond and crashed a car made of iron moving at 400 miles an hour into the wall, and the wall came out fine. They then crashed a diamond car made of 400 miles per hour into a wall, and there were no survivors. They crashed 400 miles per hour into a diamond travelling at iron car. Western New York was powerless for hours. They rammed a wall made of metal into 400 miles an hour made of diamond, and the resulting explosion shifted earths orbit 400 million miles away from the sun, saving the earth from a meteor the size of a small Washington suburb that was hurtling towards mid-western Prussia at 400 billion miles an hour. They shot a diamond made of iron at a car moving at 400 walls per hour, and as a result caused over 10000 wayward planes to lose track of their bearings, and make a fatal crash with over 10000 buildings in downtown New York. They spun 400 miles at diamond into iron per wall. The results were inconclusive. Finally, they placed 400 diamonds per hour in front of a car made of wall travelling at miles per iron, and the result proved with out a doubt that diamonds were the hardest metal of all time, if not just the hardest metal known to man.

Fuck them humans.

I always wondered why we still make them out of painted sheet metal

fpbp, anything else is irrelevant

I appreciate the effort put into this!

Cost effectiveness and impact absorption

What if a diamond card drove into a diamond wall though

I don get eht

Was waiting for someone to post this pasta

This is what you are thinking off, toughness not hardness. Diamonds are hard not tough. People want tough cars, not hard.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toughness

You sound like 10 year old me asking my dad dumb stuff like that. It doesn't matter how "undestroyable" the car is, at some point your body will simply be unable to survive the impact of the collision