>>Here's something to make you think about speeding.
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>>120mph crash test
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dI5ewOmHPQ&feature=player_embedded#!>
>Their logic seems a bit wonky. One car hitting a wall at 120 is not the same as two cars hitting each other head on at 120. Wouldn't the car have to do 240 to simulate that ?
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>In practice I'd guess a combined impact speed of 120 is *very* rare. Usually one or both drivers has braked pretty hard before the impact - the 40 mph test is probably a truer reflection of what happens in reality....
Yes
I didn't listen to the commentary.
But I would have thought a head on at 60 ish was possible on the country roads. Driver A takes a left hand bend too fast and is an idiot and driver B coming the other way is yacking on his/her mobile while trying to fish a toffee out of a bag between their knees so no braking.
All said though I can't conceive of a way decelerating that fast could be survivable whatever sort of vehicle you where in.
