I'm all against texting and driving

"GeorgeyBoy" (georgeyboy)
07/21/2015 at 20:48 • Filed to: None

But this crash is ridiculous. Skip to 2:25.

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DISCUSSION (15)

TheOnelectronic > GeorgeyBoy
07/21/2015 at 20:51

What did she expect, living in Actionville, America’s home of action movie stuntmen and physics?

Sam > GeorgeyBoy
07/21/2015 at 21:02

Alright. So assuming she’s on the suburban streets of Anywhere, USA, she was probably going about 30-35MPH. How the hell could a crash at that speed cause the car to flip FOUR TIMES. IndyCars crash and will flip at most 2-3 times, maybe 4 on a bad day. And they’re going over 200MPH and are also giant wings. Also, they say she “ruins lives”, but with a crash at that speed, she’d probably expect to AT MOST have some pretty bad neck injuries and maybe some broken bones from the seatbelt. Same for truck guy (who may not be hurt that much at all, truck are pretty resilient). Yeah, that messes up your month, but it’s not going to ruin your life.

Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) > GeorgeyBoy
07/21/2015 at 21:11

That was more dramatic and physics defying than Bollywood.

Iheartmy365kHonda - Car enthusiasts do like FWD > GeorgeyBoy
07/21/2015 at 21:39

Okay. Let’s assume both are traveling at 30 mph and get in a somewhat head-on crash. That increases the impact to about 60 mph for each vehicle. Shouldn’t the truck be the one flipping? Also, it might flip about once and that’s it. MAYBE.

Richtofen, Baron von Pickup > GeorgeyBoy
07/21/2015 at 22:17

This must be Michael Bay’s latest work.

Wait, it’s missing the subwoofer-throbbing WHOOOOOMMMMMMMMM that accompanies everything in his movies.

m-b-w loves his SUBAROO > GeorgeyBoy
07/21/2015 at 22:55

Plus, the Camry barely crumples at the front, yet the f150 crumples all the way to the back door.

sm70- why not Duesenberg? > Sam
07/21/2015 at 23:50

While I agree, consider that the other car was also going 35mph. I admit it won’t do what’s shown, and it’s not actually the equvilant of 70mph into a wall, but a head on between two cars at 35mph each is a serious crash. I won’t say for sure that it could kill you, but it’s probably more than a sore neck and an annoying insurance claim.

AMGtech - now with more recalls! > Iheartmy365kHonda - Car enthusiasts do like FWD
07/22/2015 at 01:55

Physics don’t work that way, it’s still a 30mph crash. Otherwise, agreed.

AMGtech - now with more recalls! > Sam
07/22/2015 at 01:59

Not saying the crash in the video was at all possible, but rolling isn’t all about speed. I once performed an “experiment” of sorts with a Buick and rolled three times starting at 80mph. By experiment I of course mean I was driving like an asshat. #seatbeltssavelives

samssun > GeorgeyBoy
07/22/2015 at 06:27

I don’t think you understand how Perpetual Crisis types work. It’s not enough to just say that checking your phone can be distracting like a thousand other things, and has a small probability of causing something bad but more likely you’ll just get honked at.

No, it has to be a world-ending, children-slaughtering, kitten-stomping epidemic, and we must act right NOW to raise awareness(TM), pass more laws, create a new governing body, and tax the bejeezus out of every safe driver to fund “more studies”.

Then we rinse and repeat for whatever tomorrow’s fad is. Transracial nanoaggressions, I’m guessing.

Iheartmy365kHonda - Car enthusiasts do like FWD > AMGtech - now with more recalls!
07/22/2015 at 21:15

Oh. I thought the speed doubled on a head on collision.

DisplacementForDayz, ironically lusts after a Honda Grom > GeorgeyBoy
07/22/2015 at 21:38

The crash doesn’t look too unrealistic, but for the flipping. The crash itself doesn’t look too extreme to survive. The way it was edited made it so much more dramatic, but it is using pathos to persuade people to not drive distracted, so the more people are afraid to look at their phones while driving, the better in my opinion.

AMGtech - now with more recalls! > Iheartmy365kHonda - Car enthusiasts do like FWD
07/22/2015 at 21:50

Nope. Not an engineer or good at math or I would explain, but I do know for a fact it doesn’t work that way.

Iheartmy365kHonda - Car enthusiasts do like FWD > AMGtech - now with more recalls!
07/23/2015 at 00:50

Got it. Thanks for clearing that up! I just got smarter today.

JQJ213- Now With An Extra Cylinder! > GeorgeyBoy
07/27/2015 at 20:45

Physics. Not even once.