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Speed vs Fatality Infographic (slrpnk.net)

submitted 4 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

And looking at 60km/h, that's 17m/s and they are claiming a 43m stopping distance. That would be like hitting the breaks and your car just slides on the pavement for 2.5 seconds, traveling the distance of an Olympic swimming pool, before stopping. That's only reasonable in the worst possible driving conditions. Or maybe with an enormous and heavily loaded vehicle?

Or maybe I'm being too optimistic here? Maybe these are numbers from actual accidents and in real life people hit the break slowly at first and stuff like that?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Please check out my other replies. :)