Speeding hurts

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[eschatos91]

as a driver you have to sharpen up when kids are around and certainly not speed up. kids can and will do wrong judgements at some time. what this safety ad is all about is that the driver was going to fast over the speed limit, and it could have been avoided, or the kid would at least survive from that crash.

The music is from "the lucky one" with Alison Krauss!

[hunterthompsonfear]

No helmet on the cyclist either.....

[squallz13]

@1RadicalOne

your logic just proves my point. that we should be more worried about what is going to cause an accident.. so in turn look at what causes 95% of the accidents because they increase the likelihood at a much much larger ration then speeding ever would.. fuck man. Also in some cases speeding will reduce your chances of accidents as flow of traffic is the most important aspect of avoiding them. Keeping out of blind spots. Not driving in semi and other vehicles blind spots.

[squallz13]

@1RadicalOne

Speeding doesn't cause accidents... Get your stupid head out of the whole physics debate.. its fucking pointless.. What's more deadly a missile that's going to hit you 95% of the time or one that hits 4% of the time but does slightly more damage...

[1RadicalOne]

Assuming collision in both cases - the most forgiving case, actually - then yes, greater speed translates directly into greater damage.

If you do not want to make the above assumption, you are either forced to say that increased speed reduces the chance of a collision - a ridiculous proposition - or further concede that the collision was more likely at increased speed.

[squallz13]

@1RadicalOne

right as i said before.. and most people who speed are going 10-20km over so you are saying that extra 10km is always going to cause death or a significant more amount of damage which is negligible when you compared it to the accident never happening in the first place.

[1RadicalOne]

No, there is a maximum amount of energy that can realistically be absorbed by the frame of the car. The rest goes into the passenger cabin.

As for how the damage manifests, besides the obvious fact that it always manifests as deformation of objects (car and passengers), the exact nature varies from collision to collision - car make, angle, and a thousand other factors determine what takes the brunt of the impact and how it reacts.

[squallz13]

Plus you are talking about something that can't overly be measured. That exta 5-10km does how much more damage exactly?? You are mainly worried about how much more paint and how much more damage is done to a vehicle usually in a rear ending situation... not much difference the bumper is always going to have to be replaced.

[squallz13]

PLUS there are other factors in the amount of damage the missile does besides it velocity.. it's mass.. the amount of explosive power.... you can' just pick on speed.

[squallz13]

I'll try and give you an example as you can't seem to wrap your small brain around this one.

We are being attacked by a missile. The faster that missile goes the more damage it will do yes.

However lets say in order for that missile to do actual damage it must be accurate. Therefore 95% of the time accuracy causes damage.. the other 5% is from the velocity. Do you get my point? You would be more worried about changing the accuracy of the missile than the velocity.

[squallz13]

@1RadicalOne

Omg.. you are a tool.

Factors involved in the physical realm of your point. Friction, reaction time, mass, and velocity.

FRICTION=BRAKES & TIRES

R/T= DRIVER ABILITY

MASS=Weight of vehicle

velocity is only one factor. therefore the others must be taken into account you can't just pick one...

[1RadicalOne]

I am not talking about causing accidents - though there is the fact, which I am sure you do recognize, that reaction times must get faster as speed increases - but about the amount of damage done once a collision takes place.

I see no way how the formula for kinetic energy - derived from an integration of Newton's second law, look it up - says anything about brakes besides the fact that they must work HARDER to stop a faster vehicle, which only serves my point.