Car disintegrates-100 Mph wreck against bridge post
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This is heavy.
Is there something wrong with gravity in the future?
Fastest I've taken a car up to is 125mph or so. Did that for a few minutes one afternoon on I-40 when I was getting my doors blown off by the semis. Took it up to 125 for a few minutes, but was still getting passed by the trucks and wasn't comfortable. Maintained 105 or 110 after that until I got to the AZ border on that trip. I figure the trucks were doing 135 easy.
135 kph would be around 80 miles an hour, which is hardly speeding at all on most interstates. Well it'd be speeding but not excessivley.
Re-read the post. Yeah, I think that poster was talking about KPH. I doubt many semi-trucks could find themselves any where near 135 mph hour.
FWIW, I've ridden with someone speeding ar almost 130 miles an hour. It was smooth. Scary as shit and got him a ticket, but smooth! Long live the '99 Honda Civic SI!
No. I said exactly what i meant. 135mph. I was doing 125mph and getting passed by semis that trip. 135kph is around my normal speed. This was twice that. Figured they knew something I didn't, so I kept it at 105 until I got to the California border (around 60 miles)
Fastest I ever drove personally was like 155mph. Fastest I was a passenger for was 170 in a Viper.
Driver was a raging lunatic too, so that made the ride all the more exciting.
Driver was a raging lunatic too, so that made the ride all the more exciting.
Fastest I've ever probably driven, personally, was about 100 and at that point the car was begining to kind of throw a fit. Seemed like there may've been "more speed" in it but didn't want to push it anymore and I acomplished my "need" to do it (to catch up to someone I was following who insisted on driving pretty damn fast. It was like that episode of Seinfeld where Jerry and George get seperated on the highway because George drives too fast.)
My car rides just as smooth at 120 as it does at 60. Just depends on the wind how bouncy the ride is.
And what condition the road is in, not to mention what you have on the car for tires. My car at the time was a Ford Escort LX with automatic and was running H rated Dunlop D60A2s after having read a Consumer Reports review of them.
Z-Rated run flats.
It was originally but frak photobucket.
I did a 24-second mile once. I did the math to figure out how fast that was, but I've since forgotten.
This was in a 7-year old 1991 Ford Escort, no less. It was on an empty hightway at 4:00 AM (no, I wasn't drinking) so I just decided to turn the car out. Thank god there wasn't a turtle in the road.
This was in a 7-year old 1991 Ford Escort, no less. It was on an empty hightway at 4:00 AM (no, I wasn't drinking) so I just decided to turn the car out. Thank god there wasn't a turtle in the road.
Well, they can, it's just not nearly as easy as Michael Bay movies make it out to be.
I'm sure we'll get all the typical defenses about how it's just an expression of anger and not a serious comment, but maybe people should just stop wishing death on others so much? Especially over something where fortunately no one else was hurt.
That, plus the fact that he bolted past the flow of traffic - including a police car - before hitting the median.
Awesome.
IIRC. Jamie and Adam were only able to get a gas-tank to explode after it had already had bullet holes in it (for air flow) and using (illegal) tracer bullets for the ignition.
As for the comments of "the guy should've died" yeah I'll play the "out of anger" card and it's very fortuante no one else was hurt but really I've little respect for anyone who drives like that on the highway. And even the night my buddy did it him and I talked about it and even was ashamed he did it becuase he feels the same way I do. You just don't drive like that on the highway it puts too many people in danger.
The guy could've just of easily have hit another car, crossed over the median into on-coming traffic, the debris from his crash could've hit other cars/caused other crashes. Any number of things could've happened. Luckily, this time, the driver only hurt himself.
Rett Mikhal
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Hey, every astrophysicist would argue time is much more important than humanity.
But I suppose I shouldn't blame that guy or wish ill on him and go back to wishing ill on Eisenhower for his blatantly stupid National Highway Act. Why make public transportation cheap, easy, and reliable when we can give every person in the world a car, increasing the chances of accidents by six billion percent? Why rely on trained engineers running documented vehicles with mandatory safety and maintenance precautions when we can just go on the honor system that everyone can drive and keeps their vehicle safe and is paying attention to the multi-variable ever-changing and environmentally-affected driving matrix.
I believe the myth only tested whether they can explode from bullets though, not whether an accident can cause one. Obviously they can explode, however rarely, since Rii posted one example (albeit a race car) and I'm sure we've all seen ones on the news before. I even saw one in person once; an older pickup with "side-saddle" tanks outside the frame, which were much more dangerous than modern fuel tanks which are buried inside the frame for protection from puncturing.
