"EmbraceTheRasp" (embracetherasp)
06/18/2016 at 22:23 • Filed to: None
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"EmbraceTheRasp" (embracetherasp)
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Hey, check out this cool explanation of the physics involved in cars jumping a buckled highway at speed. There’s a DOT highway-cam video that shows some neck-snapping going on. Some of these look scary. Love the tailgater 42 secs in.
Personally, since I try to remain stealthily in the right lane (oh, right, that’s not stealthy, that’s just good etiquette) I’d have missed it. I wonder if the sun was such that people didn’t see it coming. If I knew it was there, I’d have to run out, steal my neighbor’s kids high-school crap-can and do repeated runs at it until something broke.
He’d probably never know. His radio is so loud, he’d never hear the broken suspension.
Here’s the link:
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Urambo Tauro
> EmbraceTheRasp
06/18/2016 at 22:44 |
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EmbraceTheRasp
> Urambo Tauro
06/18/2016 at 22:47 |
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Haha! You made me snort. Thanks1
Die-Trying
> EmbraceTheRasp
06/18/2016 at 22:48 |
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just like them duke boys.... “oh i see a dip in the road”.....
.... that very first car in that clip....distance, AND a nice flat even landing...... 9.2
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Urambo Tauro
> EmbraceTheRasp
06/18/2016 at 23:05 |
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LOL
Seriously though, I’m glad that someone actually bothered to get into the physics of it. Too much work for me...
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Urambo Tauro
> EmbraceTheRasp
06/18/2016 at 23:33 |
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The most interesting part of the article for me is how it turns into a talk about preventing and alleviating traffic jams. I’ve spent a lot of time in traffic, thinking about how to minimize my own contribution to it, and I wish more drivers did the same instead of mindlessly trying to get ahead of everyone else.