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Watering Hole
drive a little slower when it is slick.
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<blockquote data-quote="Sasquatch" data-source="post: 251650" data-attributes="member: 7319"><p>-------------------</p><p>Very good point. </p><p></p><p>Personally usually I drive a smaller car, a Subaru WRX and with the hood on her, she'll go right under any stock truck or SUV on the market. </p><p></p><p>However, the ground clearance doesn't matter in some cases since force is equal to 1/2M(***)V(elocity) squared... less mass means you have to make up for it with more speed to do the same amount of damage to large object... however that's not good for YOU if you're riding in the smaller object. You might kill the person/people in that truck/other larger vehicle, but you're guaranteed to die doing it. </p><p></p><p>A larger car is always safer, because it has more mass. That's why the people in that SUV had NO chance against the semi truck. </p><p></p><p>This is just yet another reason some of these standards from the government are stupid. Car companies are going to make cars lighter (reducing the M) by using plastic rather than metal in an effort to boost fuel economy to meet the standards. Those cars that are made to new mileage standards will, by definition, have a lower survivability rate than the same car with heavier components when it comes to accidents. </p><p></p><p>In short, the person in the lighter vehicle is gonna take it on the chin every single time, that's how physics works.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sasquatch, post: 251650, member: 7319"] ------------------- Very good point. Personally usually I drive a smaller car, a Subaru WRX and with the hood on her, she'll go right under any stock truck or SUV on the market. However, the ground clearance doesn't matter in some cases since force is equal to 1/2M(***)V(elocity) squared... less mass means you have to make up for it with more speed to do the same amount of damage to large object... however that's not good for YOU if you're riding in the smaller object. You might kill the person/people in that truck/other larger vehicle, but you're guaranteed to die doing it. A larger car is always safer, because it has more mass. That's why the people in that SUV had NO chance against the semi truck. This is just yet another reason some of these standards from the government are stupid. Car companies are going to make cars lighter (reducing the M) by using plastic rather than metal in an effort to boost fuel economy to meet the standards. Those cars that are made to new mileage standards will, by definition, have a lower survivability rate than the same car with heavier components when it comes to accidents. In short, the person in the lighter vehicle is gonna take it on the chin every single time, that's how physics works. [/QUOTE]
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