Anyone watch 5th gear tonight? What a mess!
An extreme but will make me think when heavy with the right foot.
An extreme but will make me think when heavy with the right foot.
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any video's on youtube yet?
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120mph into a wall tho
its Never going to be a happy ending
Scary - How it just Crumples like a Coke can under your foot
Ziggy
its Never going to be a happy ending
Scary - How it just Crumples like a Coke can under your foot
Ziggy
it is a very scary video
I'll be sure to avoid them solid walls in the centre of the motorway from now on.
in case your car gets chained up?
but it is still similar to jumping a carriage into the other
i dont belive breaks are effective at high speed
but it is still similar to jumping a carriage into the other
i dont belive breaks are effective at high speed
If you jump the carriageway you will do 70-0, not 120.
2 cars driving head on at 60mph each surely would be the same as what we just saw though? Makes you worry about those country lanes we all like to drive on ...
slightly different coz the other car will crumple etc but still a scary thought
Didn't Mythbusters do a similar experiment and each car took half the impact force?
Better a quick death than a slow one 
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You shouldn't believe everything Newton said, inventing gravity doesn't mean you're always right.
Newton's fourth law might well state-
"The diffences in forces acting on a body either colliding with stationary body at 120mph or two bodies, each travelling at 60mph, colliding are largely academic, either way you are royally F***ed"
Newton's fourth law might well state-
"The diffences in forces acting on a body either colliding with stationary body at 120mph or two bodies, each travelling at 60mph, colliding are largely academic, either way you are royally F***ed"
The MythBusters pancake car is better
I like how the paint turns into powder and it's so fast the back end hasn't the time to react while the front end is being crushed.
I like how the paint turns into powder and it's so fast the back end hasn't the time to react while the front end is being crushed.
I think you've just missed the point completely. 2 cars having a head on @ 60mph each is equivalent to one car having a crash into an immovable object @ 60mph. Each car is still only doing 60mph and still only has the same amount of energy to dissipate.
My point was that it's largely irrelevant, the post was also rather tongue in cheek
Hit another car travelling at 60 & you're in big trouble.
Hit a solid (stationary) object at 60 & you're in big trouble
Hit anything at 60 & you're going to be very badly injured, or dead, remember EuroNCAP only test at 40mph
You don't seem to get it though. The facts are the facts and you said they weren't......
You don't seem to get it though. The facts are the facts and you said they weren't......
It wasn't supposed to be serious
Apart from the bit about Newton inventing gravity, everyone knows this is true
