What would Happen is a Peugot 206.....

[FlySurfer - Edy.]

Driving to visit a mate in Abergele last night I was cruizing down an a road, which was moderatly windy with blind hills and corners.....at one point a 206 came flying round a bend at about 100 mph, straddling both lanes with me in his sights.....no where to go I stood my ground and accelerated for impact - Luckily we avoided impact by the thickness of a hair on my bottom.

Cant help but think .... what would have ahppend considering my mass and inertia....compared to his....any educated guessers ?

[Koi]

Cant help but think .... what would have ahppend considering my mass and inertia....compared to his....any educated guessers ?

A big crash

[Slugsie]

and a big mess, with bodies strewn everywhere. Even with the mass of a Surf, it'd still be toast. But you'd probably come out a bit better off than the 206, but not by much.

[UKWolf]

................no where to go I stood my ground and accelerated for impact - Luckily we avoided impact by the thickness of a hair on my bottom.

Cant help but think .... what would have ahppend considering my mass and inertia....compared to his....any educated guessers ?

Why accelerate - doing that you increase the impact speed ie your speed + his speed, would only make thing worse and you allow him less time to get back on his side of the road

[Delboy]

Why did you accelerate? If you hadnt, you would you not have missed by a lot more!

[FlySurfer - Edy.]

I accelerated in order to get out of his way, he was coming over from his lane into mine and I tried to get past him faster. It worked.

I had a fleeting thought whilst doing it - hence the question.

[Delboy]

Sorry, but you said you accelerated for impact, so i thought that you sped up so as to cause less damage to your surf or something!

[FlySurfer - Edy.]

no my appologies, I wasnt clear in my description of what happened - rushing again !

[AndyLala]

Perhaps Flysurfer-Edy was right... ish...?


I seem to remember something about weight x speed?

So faster speed, more inertia?

something like that...

andyL

[Gamedawn]

Happened to someone I know in an L200. The oncoming car ripped the offside front wheel off the L200 and launched it into the air as it climbed over the top of the car. L200 finished up doing a barrel roll into a ditch and if it hadn't been for the air bags the driver would been taken out in another type of bag. The driver of the oncoming car was so p***ed I don't think he noticed.

[Big Jonah]

Perhaps Flysurfer-Edy was right... ish...?


I seem to remember something about weight x speed?

So faster speed, more inertia?

something like that...

andyL

That'll be momentum, different from inertia. Momentum before and after impact are the same (the conservation of momentum)

So 2 tons x 50Kmh = 100 (before impact). If after impact forward velocity is 5 Kmh, equivalent mass of your surf is now 20 tons.

However, if the other car was going twice as fast, and probably weighed half as much as a Surf, momentum at point of inpact would be equal (i.e. 100 x 1 = 100 but oposite in magnitude), meaning no-one is better off!

[da SLUG man]

That'll be momentum, different from inertia. Momentum before and after impact are the same (the conservation of momentum)

So 2 tons x 50Kmh = 100 (before impact). If after impact forward velocity is 5 Kmh, equivalent mass of your surf is now 20 tons.

However, if the other car was going twice as fast, and probably weighed half as much as a Surf, momentum at point of inpact would be equal (i.e. 100 x 1 = 100 but oposite in magnitude), meaning no-one is better off!

so would i be better off with a fat bird then?

[Vagrant No2]

so would i be better off with a fat bird then?

I don't think ANY bird would be better off with you !

Rick

[Big Jonah]

so would i be better off with a fat bird then?

Possibly....cheaper than having air bags fitted....