![]() 01/18/2018 at 17:30 • Filed to: None | ![]() | ![]() |
And why speeding is dangerous. Really interesting stuff.
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This is why all cars should have Big brake kits and the stickiest tires they can use for the conditions.
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Yeah but see, what he didn’t show is that the tree probably moved a little when the red car hit it. Which leaves some extra braking room for the blue car!
Therefore, it’s actually safer for the blue car if the red car speeds! :)
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What’s a jool carriageway?
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This is why cars should be made less safe, maybe then people will realise their actions have consequences.
Yes, almost everyone goes a little over the speed limit and some way over, if caught, they get a ticket and then complain how the police should be catching real law breakers and how they are just revenue for the local police (here’s the thing a-hole, don’t speed, don’t get a ticket, it’s that simple so put on your big boy pants and deal with it, you knew the rules, you broke them, that’s it).
You may get no consequence from it. You may irritate a driver, you may cause a collision, you may get into a collision, you may cause someone to get hurt, you may cause yourself to get hurt, you may kill some one. See how that escalated fast.
The resulting re-actions aren’t unequal, speeding has an almost damned near equal risk of one of these (or several) outcomes each and everytime. Only the chances of one happening gets more and more after each previous time.
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E = 1/2 * m * v^2. You double your speed you quadruple your kinetic energy. Same formula also shows how a big SUV isn’t necessarily safer than a tiny hatchback. Your truck that’s 20% bigger than my hatchback also requires 20% more braking energy to stop, more grip to turn (the physics aren’t nice so it doesn’t work out to 20% more and I am to tired and lazy to work out the math but it is more), and hits that tree with 20% more energy.
E = m*g*h is also fun to debunk your friends theory that roller coasters are faster with more people on them.
![]() 01/18/2018 at 19:07 |
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This is a good take. Speaking of which.. I miss my sticky summer rubber so much... These snow tires just do not grip
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I know, snow tires are fun in the snow and that’s about it.....I have my snows on the STI and still running the summer tires on the outback but we might get a foot of snow tomorrow so I think I’ll have put the snow tires on tonight....I’m just hoping the factory wheels fit over the wilwoods ....the internet said they will.
![]() 01/18/2018 at 19:30 |
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Exactly. Next year I’ll be running summers year round, and just swapping tires in my parking lot whenever I decide to go up in the mountains (or for the one-yearly lowland snow). Good luck! Stock wheels don’t fit over my Wilwoods unfortunately.... Speaking of which I don’t think I’ve ever seen an outback with a big brake kit. That’s awesome
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The factory brakes on the Outback XT were completely inadequate, especially after going stage 2 and upgrading the struts and springs.
Now it feels as good as my STi, only issue the BP-20 pads squeal a bit more then my wife would like....and it’s her car, going to try the hawk hps pads see if they are any better.
Living in the mountains I almost always swap in oct of nov but this year as been a bit of a bust snow wise so far, really need a big February at this point.
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Dual carriageway. More than a single lane highway that hasn’t been designated a motorway.
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I know. I was just making fun of the way British people talk.
![]() 01/18/2018 at 21:01 |
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It’s okay, I do the same with how you guys say, leisure, basil, oregano, schedule, neither, tomato, mobile, missile, privacy, patronise, vase, vitamins, wraths, Buddha, dynasty, herb, Nissan, pasta, patent, route, produce, zebra, yogurt, expatriate, etc... Lol.
http://www.expataussieinnj.com/english-words-pronounced-differently-in-america/
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England and America, two great countries separated by a common language.
— George Bernard Shaw (attrib.)
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Ye’, the irony is some of the ones you pronounce the same as us, you spell differently because you got rid of the letter ‘u’, that was a deliberate act though. Maybe it was down to all the times colonial Americans kept saying f**k you to the British and some misunderstood and then later Noah Webster said to himself, ‘yeah, f**k u, we don’t need u, lets get rid of u’.
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That’s a fascinating hypothesis. As a bit of a word nut, I think I’ll go with that. I’m also intrigued by how we use a “z” while you use an “s”. I do a couple of British crosswords each week, and I always have to remember be British spellings.
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Also you say ‘z’ as zee where as we say zed.
I think to Americans, Z sounds more right than to use S.
The most confusing for Americans has to be ‘ough’.
Rough -r-uff,
Plough - pl-aw, (as in bow-wow)
Through -thr-oow, (as in true)
Though -th-ow, (as in toe)
Hiccough -hic-up,
Cough -c-off,
Thought -th-awt,
Thorough -thur-oh,
Lough (as in lake) - lo-ch.
The wind was rough along the lough as the ploughman fought through the slough and snow, and though he hiccoughed and he coughed , he thought only of his work, determined to be thorough .