But this case is a straight shot, the bus thing only works on curves. (Something-something-gyroscopic-something).
- I donât think a car could climb anything like a 5cm drop.
First, thatâs going to be an awful lot of force on the tires, I think youâll see a double blowout. Second, youâre shoving hard up on the front of the car when it lands. The car is in free-fall, whatâs going to happen? The car rotates around itâs center of mass, the back will drop. What was 5cm at the front will be a lot more than 5cm when the back gets there.
- It certainly is possible to make this jump with sufficient velocity, not that a car could hope to obtain that velocity. At 17,694 miles per hour the car sails over the gap without difficulty. (Now, steering at that speed is another matter as youâll have zero traction.)
In Europe, your choices of fast wagons are even greater. But I digress.
As far as the suspension unloading- Iâd expect a standard road car to have somewhat less rebound damping (as opposed to compression dampingâŚ) and that yes, I think it would very likely read full extension in that time.
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Depends on whether itâs a front wheel drive vehicle or not, doesnât it?
Thereâs a least a 30% chance that this idiot will blame his GPS.
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According to a police statement, the man was initially unharmed and climbed out of the vehicle, but broke several ribs and punctured a lung when attempting to escape the water onto a concrete ledge.
By doing what? Impaling himself on rebar? Youâre doing it wrong!
Heck, if you limit yourself to a swish early 90s eurostyle leap thereâs still plenty of choice.
Sorry, got carried away.
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Back in the early early '80âs my friend drove his momâs V-8 station wagon (maybe a Country Squire? I dunno. It was a woody.) That thing mightâve hit 115 mph empty, but sure the hell could still haul ass even when fully loaded with drunk teenagers.
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He failed parabolas.
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Broken ribs and punctured lungs doesnât sound âunharmedâ to me.
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I want to know about the passenger who jumped out.
Having apparently exited the car without injury, he tried to jump onto a concrete ledge and slipped. What I donât understand is that while this is obviously a stupid thing to do, itâs an odd stupid thing to even try. Why attempt this when the bridge is closing? He hardly fits the profile of someone trying to act out a movie scene - a 56 year old man driving a people carrier pretty slowly from his home town at 7:30 on a Wednesday morning? My guess is that he was tired/distracted on the way to work and completely missed the fact that the bridge was open - there doesnât seem to be a barrier in this picture, so he probably missed the lights on the corner:
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retracting bridge is the type of bridge, like drawbridge is a type of bridge. it is indeed closing.
likely not, retracting bridges are level unlike drawbridges that create ramps with a conceivably jumpable gap.
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Being as itâs level the gap would be hard to see. If he was so distracted he missed whatever indicators were there to tell him about the huge temporary gap in the road he sure wouldnât see the gap.
Looks like no braking whatsoever?, dude was probably textingâŚ
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Iâm sure heâs taken that road hundreds of times before without ever being stopped at the lights at that time in the morning. If youâre on autopilot, your brain wonât necessarily check whether the road is still there.
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