Where I live, the highway speed limits are 65 and State patrol are always sitting near my house, often ticketing people for as little as 70. I set my cruise at 69. It's nice.
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I mean there's no street legal car in the world that can go 420 so you'd probably just get that ticket thrown out. Still have to pay the court cost though which is bullshit.
People making those rocket-powered land-speed record breaking vehicles use this one weird trick to get out of speeding tickets.
Another great tip is to drive at 54900 km/s so that all red lights are green lights from your perspective.
Lmao ain't no commercial car in existence that can go 420mph. Cop saved you a ticket if you're not an idiot about things.
I would expect that any commercial car can go 420mph if you drop it from high enough.
No, terminal velocity is somewhere around 110mph I think. Unless you're talking about sending it into space.
Edit: yes I have read more about this since making the comment. Big thanks to a mediocre education decades ago for what I thought I knew.
Pretty sure that's terminal velocity of a falling human. It will likely be much higher for a car.
Terminal velocity depends on the drag profile and weight of an object. So it actually depends what shape the vehicle is and it's mass.
To be fair, I did say “high enough.” Get it beyond the atmosphere and it’ll easily hit 420mph. Just know there won’t really be anything left for your insurance company to appraise.
I caught that and I tried to acknowledge it. But I think the implied part was that vehicles won't go that fast under their own power.
I think the implied part was that vehicles won't go that fast under their own power.
Sure, that’s why what I said was funny. 😉
Ok now I need to run a cfd sim to check the terminal velocity of a car...
What's the outcome?
I unfortunately don't have a cfd program, nor the skills to use one yet. Should by next year, definitely looking forward to it.
I need a 'remind me in a year' feature!
Evil Kanieval the stuntman figured out the terminal velocity of a human to be around 80 mph or so I believe, i imagine a car would be same or less, although it would probably fall engine side first?
If not, there's always trebuchets.
There are few discussions I have in my daily life that can't be made more entertaining by adding "If not, there's always trebuchets."
Thank you for enriching my future conversations!
If it doesn't work out, there's always trebuchets.
Terminal velocity is a thing that exists.
if you drop it from high enough
Just go high enough that drag is negligible. :)
Drop it from outside the atmosphere. It will hit 420mph probably
Well sure, that’s why I couched it with “I would expect.” My guess is that most cars, even the Peel P50, have enough mass to surface area ratio to reach 420mph. But I haven’t done the math.
Pretty sure I've never seen anyone else use the phrase "couched it" in this context. Well done.
I mostly use it with couching lances in Mount and Blade.
Also valid!
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Looks like a human is somewhere in the range of 200-300mph, give or take a bit. A car is probably higher, but it really depends on orientation. I wouldn't be surprised if a car couldn't surpass 420mph.
Oh wow, you're right. I always thought terminal velocity for a human was 120 mph. That must have been something I read a very long time ago that just stuck with me. I checked just now and the site I found said that it's 89 mph spread eagle and 310 mph head down. I agree, that car is totally doing 420, dude!
Blaze it!
Might be km/h
Nope, still doesn't work. The fastest commercially available cars don't go much faster than 220mph, which is about 350kmh.
According to that list, the fastest is 295 mph ≈ 474 km/h
If they were going that fast, they wouldn't be getting a simple citation that could be resolved in traffic court, that's straight to jail levels of recklessness...
that's faster than most helicopters, if they've got a long enough straight, they're getting away lol
If they've got the gas for it.
A Bugatti Chiron can do 440km/h. If the 100 litre tank was filled at the beginning, then the car will travel for 9 minutes at top speed before running out of gas.
good point
i guess if I've got Bugatti money I've probably got money for a helicopter of my own, why the hell am I going 440kph in traffic lmao
Damn, there goes my pride in my reading comprehension skills. Still pretty dang close when all you have to do is change 'no commercially available car' to 'no reasonably available car'.
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"I have proof my car can't go that fast"
Open and shut case.
You think. There was an infamous case in Hungary where someone was cited for allegedly going 260 kmh in downtown Budapest. In an old Ford Transit van. While reversing.
The police simply refused to entertain the idea that someone knocked the camera and it made a bad read.
They had to close off the street and demonstrate that the van couldn't get to 260 in reverse.
The most memorable thing of the whole case was the head of the police saying with a straight face "Hungarian traffic laws are not enforced according to the laws of physics", as part of the prosecution argument.
It sounds like they won the case, did they not?
Only because the victim had a lawyer friend who worked pro bono, and it still took years.
You in court: Because i was blazin bitches!!! .... (sticking tongue out, hands wide and making finger gestures)
Judge (looking at you weird): ..... five years no parol .... NEXT!
Cool cops put down 420. It isn't about speed, it is about weed.
(or did everyone already realize that?)
Yup.
And OP wanted 69 instead, the funny sex number, in case someone missed that too.
'68 is pretty cool though
All hail scogin
Damn, a wild the chariot fan
I had a bumper sticker on my old ranger that said
my other ride is a THE CHARIOT
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