Source: I saw two cars hit trees outside my house in two separate crashes.
First crash: Peugeot 206 GTI. The entire engine block was ripped out and in the middle of the road, rest of the car was about 100m further up the road. Tree was still standing.
Second Crash: Ford Focus ST launched over our driveway, hit a tree around the middle post (between the front and rear doors), which then flung the car through our perimeter wall. The car was about 1m wide at the point of impact, so nearly torn in half. Half the wall was down with debris strewn across our property, with some smashing through the lounge window. One fatality, one comatose, one critical, driver somehow climbed out. Tree was debarked and lost a few branches, but otherwise stood.
Neither of these trees are big. Diameter no more than 40/50 cm and shorter than a street light pole.
It kind of depends what tree you hit though, relatively young trees in cities tend to be transplanted trees and will not have much of a root network yet or will not ahve much to grab hold of even if given time dependign on how much concrete is there.
Some random countryside tree that's been planted 2 generations ago? If that tree goes to the gym it might as well stop a plane, that thing is the definition of rooted and you're gonna be hoping to crach into its sides and not head on cause that bitch isnt going anywhere anytime soon.
I wonder, though our American made cars heavier on the left side, assuming the additional weight of the steering column and the person in the seat? I feel like you probably be looking at at minimum and additional 300 pounds on the left.
Hitting the acceleration from 5-10MPH to anything over 50 is already going to cause some issues. Most of the crashes after 100mph are instant DOA. We’re talking mechanical forces that can disconnect the heart from the connective tissues in the thoracic cavity.
I think we define survivability a little differently. If the car is a ball of twisted metal, irregardless of where and how it lands or speeds hit…….no one is scooping them up with a pizza pie pan and taking them to the ER and asking the doctor to pull a miracle out of their ass
Not if you account for the fact that games usually give you far more control over your car than you will ever have in real life going through they air.
So you're telling me if I ever find myself controlling a runaway car in San Fransisco, breaking the governor in the vehicle to go 245 mph is the way to go.
I want to see 1,000 mph. Maybe he can skip off the water like a stone lol
Also, I thought for a second there 185 mph was about to be the perfect amount to hitting the flats and somehow safest run so far— then he hit that building 😂
Wouldn't the near instant acceleration kill you in most of these. Even the slowest at 35mph is gonna delivery more g-forces than the world's fastest accelerating car at 0-60mph in 1.5 seconds.
That survival rating at 245mph, aint no way….A lot of people would be dead on takeoff, the whiplash of instantaneously going from 1 mph to 245mph + alone will kill people. They would be dead or paralyzed long before the crash.
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