ford focus vs wall @ 120mph

[phyregod]

On the brighter side, if you hit a bridge abutment at 120, you'll never know it.

Just think, the old crx doesn't have half the safety features that focus had, and its capable of well over 120. Wonder if the bumpers would bend eachother out of shape?

 

[hondarin]

It would seem obvious that the implication was the 8G's of force was over the whole person.

but for how long.....

 

[92stoccord]

I'm not saying the car should bounce off the wall or be made out of memory foam.... but it should be survivable with some research and funding in the next X years. There should be a way to disperse the energy around the cabin and transfer it out the rear of the car.
there has to be a way to absorb or transfer the energy. Some super battery or something that doesn't exist yet that can eat the kinetic energy to reduce the effects on the humans in the car.

I'm not physics expert and won't claim to be, but it seems like it is possible to absorb this energry, or at least move the energy past the cabin before the force is felt at full blast.

The absorbtion and dispersion of energy in an accident is seen in the distortion of the vehicles, along with sound, and friction observed. Like what was said before, its not the collision, its the sudden stop. There's no way for the mechanics of physics to keep you in motion long enough from 120 to a dead stop almost instantaneously to survive that sort of an impact. That would involve you passing through the vehicle and the wall, mostly unscathed. Since there is a very small x distance to slow down to your new velocity, v=0, you must experience a very large negative acceleration, relative to your body, or increase the distance in which you can go from initial velocity at impact, to final velocity. This is observed in crumple zones. More rigidity removes that much more distance, and causes larger negative acceleration. An object that absorbs motion makes no sense.

 

[double0Si]

I love me some Gouda cheese. Its so much more classy than Cheddar.

 

[xj0hnx]

but for how long.....

At 8 G's? Depends on the axis, vertical some trained pilots can stand 8, or 9, for normal folks 5 is about when they lose consciousness. Horizontal is much easier to deal with since the blood isn't being forced into, or out of your brain. John Stapp survived a test of horizontal 22 G's with only minor damage to his eyes.

 

[UNDR8D]

The absorbtion and dispersion of energy in an accident is seen in the distortion of the vehicles, along with sound, and friction observed. Like what was said before, its not the collision, its the sudden stop. There's no way for the mechanics of physics to keep you in motion long enough from 120 to a dead stop almost instantaneously to survive that sort of an impact. That would involve you passing through the vehicle and the wall, mostly unscathed. Since there is a very small x distance to slow down to your new velocity, v=0, you must experience a very large negative acceleration, relative to your body, or increase the distance in which you can go from initial velocity at impact, to final velocity. This is observed in crumple zones. More rigidity removes that much more distance, and causes larger negative acceleration. An object that absorbs motion makes no sense.

You didn't write that.

 

[92stoccord]

Huh?

 

[UNDR8D]

I was venturing a guess that those were not your own words...

 

[92stoccord]

They actually were lol.

 

[UNDR8D]

It sounds like something from a textbook or wikipedia.