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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: 106pete on 04 June 2016, 07:57:59
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Hope this hasn't been posted before, I've only just found it.
It looks like they don't like the omega very much....
https://youtu.be/47e-I1vgGaM
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Well that seemed pointless, any car hitting an immovable object at 125 mph is going to disintegrate :o
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Phew how lucky am i that mine doesnt go above a 100 ;D ;D
Love the way all the other cars are lined up showing them what fate is instore ;D ;D
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Well that seemed pointless, any car hitting an immovable object at 125 mph is going to disintegrate :o
Old news ::)
Has a certain relevance in Germany with unrestricted sections of autobahn... Even Omegas can cruise at 125+ and at that speed it wouldn't take much to distract you enough to miss rapidly slowing traffic ahead.
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Well that seemed pointless, any car hitting an immovable object at 125 mph is going to disintegrate :o
Old news ::)
Has a certain relevance in Germany with unrestricted sections of autobahn... Even Omegas can cruise at 125+ and at that speed it wouldn't take much to distract you enough to miss rapidly slowing traffic ahead.
And a bit more ::) Very comfortably I might add ;) :y
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Well that seemed pointless, any car hitting an immovable object at 125 mph is going to disintegrate :o
And no matter how well the car does, the squishy pink things inside it will always get pinker and squishier.
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Well that seemed pointless, any car hitting an immovable object at 125 mph is going to disintegrate :o
And no matter how well the car does, the squishy pink things inside it will always get pinker and squishier.
Plus 125mph sounds a lot but in reality, 2 cars travelling at 62.5mph colliding head on gives a closing speed of 125mph. Just look at the situation James has ended up in
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Well that seemed pointless, any car hitting an immovable object at 125 mph is going to disintegrate :o
And no matter how well the car does, the squishy pink things inside it will always get pinker and squishier.
Plus 125mph sounds a lot but in reality, 2 cars travelling at 62.5mph colliding head on gives a closing speed of 125mph. Just look at the situation James has ended up in
Didn't myth busters or similar disprove this thought? I didn't see it myself just heard they tested it to show 60+60 doesn't equal 120 impact?
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Well that seemed pointless, any car hitting an immovable object at 125 mph is going to disintegrate :o
Old news ::)
Has a certain relevance in Germany with unrestricted sections of autobahn... Even Omegas can cruise at 125+ and at that speed it wouldn't take much to distract you enough to miss rapidly slowing traffic ahead.
Not quite as the video shows them smashing into cars that are being held in place with huge concrete blocks where as in an accident the car you hit will move so soaking up some of the energy, but yeah at 125 mph your pretty much brown bread.
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Well that seemed pointless, any car hitting an immovable object at 125 mph is going to disintegrate :o
And no matter how well the car does, the squishy pink things inside it will always get pinker and squishier.
Plus 125mph sounds a lot but in reality, 2 cars travelling at 62.5mph colliding head on gives a closing speed of 125mph. Just look at the situation James has ended up in
Didn't myth busters or similar disprove this thought? I didn't see it myself just heard they tested it to show 60+60 doesn't equal 120 impact?
Don't see how they can... Basic physics ;)
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They did an aircraft brace position one, but don't recall a car crash test :-\
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Just found it on good old YouTube https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=r8E5dUnLmh4 basically they are saying 50+50=50 if the car hitting you is the same... I wouldn't expect the same if it was a lorry.
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Just found it on good old YouTube https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=r8E5dUnLmh4 basically they are saying 50+50=50 if the car hitting you is the same... I wouldn't expect the same if it was a lorry.
Is the guy with the hat the US version of Chris Evans?
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Just found it on good old YouTube https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=r8E5dUnLmh4 basically they are saying 50+50=50 if the car hitting you is the same... I wouldn't expect the same if it was a lorry.
Ahh... Hang on. That refers to damage on each car. The energy involved (and therefore transferred into another form) will be double in the overall crash. Plus, as you say, change it so different vehicles are involved and the outcome is very different.
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Just found it on good old YouTube https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=r8E5dUnLmh4 basically they are saying 50+50=50 if the car hitting you is the same... I wouldn't expect the same if it was a lorry.
Ahh... Hang on. That refers to damage on each car. The energy involved (and therefore transferred into another form) will be double in the overall crash. Plus, as you say, change it so different vehicles are involved and the outcome is very different.
Energy = 1/2 mv2
So you'll have 4 times the energy in a car doing 120 MPH as a car doing 60 MPH, or 2 times as much as 2 identical cars doing 60MPH. Energy into the crash is doubled, therefore, for a single car hitting a stopped one at 120 MPH as opposed to a 60MPH head-on between 2 cars.
What that energy does then is another matter. The video showed a car hitting another that was up against a solid obstruction. Not a likely scenario, since the energy is all absorbed by the two cars. More likely, the stopped car would get punted up the road and a lot of the energy would go in accelerating it, decelerating the moving car less rapidly and resulting in less intrusion into the passenger cell.
Matters little in this case. To bring you to rest without fatal deceleration forces and passenger cell intrusion you need a much longer bonnet at 120 MPH.
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What 'e said :y
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50-58G was mentioned in that clip... more than enough to be uncomfortable however you look at it...
And for a better understanding of hitting the back of a pile up at speed...
https://youtu.be/CSEl2ueCATs and that's at little over half the speed of the German test...
Still unsure of the merits of such a test?