Why tail gating is bad !

NeMiSiS

Tom

fletch

lol lol lol

fletch

Where did the picture mysteriously go?

Mr E

Yep, I'm getting a "Thanks for stealing our bandwidth" message
Post a link to the page and not the image.

fletch

Here's the pic for anyone who can't view it

glynf

Lol. I know how those lads feel.F**kin tailgaters, the bane of my life I'm sitting at home waiting for an insurance estimator because of one :mad:
cool pic though

unkel

Funny pic

jlang

Interesting that the fact that there's an SUV involved completely changes the dynamics of the crash for the other cars, in effect making their crumple zones useless. It seems like the force of the impact from each side was pretty much directed straight at their windscreen and fuel tank. The SUV driver's OK though so why should he care.

unkel

jlang wrote:

that there's an SUV involved completely changes the dynamics of the crash for the other cars, in effect making their crumple zones useless

Good observation. Thought it looked strange with all the cars nosediving under the cars in front, instead of crashing into each other horizontally (using crumple zones to take momentum of impact). Never realised before that rear-ending a SUV would be that bad

DukeDredd

I really hate the term SUV!

puntosporting

Looks staged to me?!?

ambro25

Mmm...don't know. Cars don't usually maintain a horizontal attitude under hard braking, unless equipped with specialist, racing-grade suspension systems (put simply: nose dives, ass lifts).

So it's perfectly plausible for the BM to run under the Jeep, particularly if braking hard (not an "if", really , here ) as nose dives in respect of minimum front suspension travel.

Same observation for other cars, so again perfectly plausible for the third blue one (looks like an Oldsmob'?) with quite 'thin' and shovel-like front to run under the BM, which probably had it's ass in the air at the time (once again, re. braking hard) - and again the fourth one (old-style onda Concerto or Prelude, yet again quite 'thin' and shovel-like front).

fletch

Looks staged to me too.....

Although I do know that in the US for the past few years they have been carrying out tests on radar/laser guided car trains....this could be the result of such tests maybe.....