It’ll buff out.
Shoulda driven the tumbler.
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It will be interesting how this pans out but we will likely not hear about it. So, he’s on a rooftop parking garage. I have to assume there is some barrier (?). His occupants are able to leap out. The car must have been traveling at some speed as it managed to launch right across the street after hitting the barrier. Authorities are checking to determine the structural integrity of the parking garage. I would have thought that the barrier would be a low wall that contained some reinforcement. Setting aside the possibility that the parking garage actually caused the accident it would seem there was some intent involved. Not the ideal rideshare.
Here’s a postscript: That barrier looks way flimsy to me. Evidently planning laws are not what you’d expect in Santa Monica. The interesting footnote is that the car was propelled across 4 lanes of road before landing opposite the parking garage. viz:
It does affect the kinetic energy. There is probably some ideal physics problem where all of the horizontal kinetic energy is conserved and the gentleman uses it to continue alone the road at street level.
However since it appears to have been stopped the forward speed will be involved in severity of impact if not speed of a Jeep falling.
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Well, then, based on the previous physics nerd posts, you should be able to calculate the speed the jeep was going as it left the rooftop. Assume each lane is 4 meters wide.
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Ignoring wind resistance:
h = 22 meters [height of 6th floor]
w = 20 meters [width of 4 lane road, plus sidewalk]
a = g = 9.8 m/s/s
V(y)_initial = 0 m/s
Time to hit ground: t = sqrt(2*h/a) = sqrt(2 x 22/9.8) = 2.12 seconds.
V(y)_final = sqrt(2gh) = sqrt(2 x 9.8 x 22) = ~=20.7m/s
V(x)_initial = V(x)_final = 20 meters/ 2.12 seconds = 9.43 m/s
V_final = sqrt(V(x)_final^2 + V(y)_final^2) = 22.75 m/s = ~51mph
Ignoring forward velocity, then impact speed is sqrt(2gh) = 20.7 m/s or 46.5 mph
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Pythagoras, man.
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Yeah the horizontal velocity contributed to the energy at impact with the McDonalds ™.
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The news report mentions that he is being sedated for his health. Somehow given the midnight hour of this incident I wouldn’t be surprised if he were sedated for a reason other than health.
Yesterday I saw a 20ish young gentleman driving a huge truck with the cabin light on at night, staring at his cell phone and weaving several feet outside his highway lane.
Maybe there should be a Kathy Bates law that you can’t drive a big vehicle like that until you can afford to buy it without help from your parents.
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Went there, did that…!
Please pay attention how safety is handle in China these 2 persons in the middle of the road and 6 cones to protect the accident location.
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WTF I know? Math is not my bailiwick.
Does that take into account the resistance of the barrier? At what height did he hit the building across the street? We only have its final resting place for reference. He might have cleared more than 4 lanes had that building not gotten in the way. That’s what really burgered him.
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I just assumed that he struck the base of the building across the street. He could have hit higher on the building, or hit in the middle of the street and skidded.
Last Friday, while my sister was visiting me, we observed that people were having trouble adulting on the road. We saw not one, but two boneheaded traffic moves in a three-minute span.
There was really no need to try to travel to Namboombu in the first place…
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The driver’s phone recorded the whole thing. The last intelligible words were “I triple dog dare you.”
In order to calculate that you’d have to know the exact point where part of the vehicle made contact with the ground. Was it actually still airborne when it hit the wall (if so, you have to add the width of the sidewalk to the horizontal distance), or did it hit the road and wind up oriented the way it was because it bounced when it hit the curb?
I think it’s most likely it fell short and bounced. It wound up sitting nose-up. A falling vehicle of that type always goes nose down because the weight of the engine makes the nose heavier. For the front end of the vehicle to have hit the wall at the height where it is in the picture, it would have had to be so high at the second of impact, it would have flown another 10 or 12 meters before reaching the ground if the wall hadn’t been there.
♫ When this old world starts a getting me down
And people are just too much for me to face
I’ll climb way up to the top of the stairs
And all my cares just drift right into space
On the roof, it’s peaceful as can be
And there the world below don’t bother me
No, no ♫
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