Rion D'Luz wrote: > The subject of speeding is such a straw man. It's unenforceable. 25mph > can kill as easily as 70mph. > As many ppl are on meds as drink-n-drive and fundamentally speeding > does not kill, influences do not kill, texting does not kill, its > losing control that kills. speed is irrelevant despite what anyone > says.
Let's check the math: If you have one second to react at 25mph, then you have about 1s*25/70 = 0.357s at 70mph. Let's say your car weighs 1500kg, 25mph = 11.17600 meters / second 70mph = 31.2928 meters / second 0.5*1500kg*(11.1760m/s)^2=93677joules 0.5*1500kg*(31.2928m/s)^2=734429joules So you have one second to get 94kj under control vs. one third of a second to get 734kj under control, while on drugs and the cell phone. Nope, it doesn't check out. -- Anthony Carrico
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