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Speed vs Fatality Infographic
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this post was submitted on 14 Aug 2024
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30 km/h is 8.3 m/s, are you implying the driver reaction time is 2.5s? Or is this chart for mentally challenged drivers?
I'm trying to figure this out too. Those distances seem really suspicious. At 30km/h, I'm pretty sure I can stop my (admittedly small) car in less than 1 car length. Maybe half a car length, something like 2m? Way less than 9m.
And looking at 60km/h, that's 17m/s and they are claiming a 43m stopping distance. That would be like hitting the breaks and your car just slides on the pavement for 2.5 seconds, traveling the distance of an Olympic swimming pool, before stopping. That's only reasonable in the worst possible driving conditions. Or maybe with an enormous and heavily loaded vehicle?
Or maybe I'm being too optimistic here? Maybe these are numbers from actual accidents and in real life people hit the break slowly at first and stuff like that?
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