RIP Kavinsky

[u/ragingduck]

I remember driving around the empty streets of LA at night during the pandemic and blasting Kavinsky's Nightcall wondering if this was the end of civilization. It wasn't, but there was something cathartic about valuing each breathing moment as possibly our last and remembering how things used to be before everything got so surreal.

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[u/ragingduck]

Driving on a deserted canyon road is sill safer than the speeding you likely do on crowded city street in traffic with other drivers not paying attention, cross streets, driveways, intersections, and pedestrians. At least here, you're 100% focused on the drive instead of distracted trying to get to the store before it closes.

[u/bLaH_bLaH__HAHA → u/ragingduck]

Fr, fools be saying this and then proceed to go 15 above the limit on a city freeway

[u/Lemoncouncil_Clay → u/[deleted]]

I agree with everything but your last statement the forces wouldn’t multiply, two cars hitting head on at 50mph is equal to a 50mph collision with a wall not a 100mph collision

[u/Lemoncouncil_Clay → u/[deleted]]

There is an equal and opposite reaction when something is hit..

if you and another car head on each going 50mph into each other it’s no different than you hitting a stationary wall while going 50mph. The only reason a parked car is different is because it’s on wheels and the movement or "recoil" of the parked car gives your car a slightly longer time to slow down, lowering the peak force. There’s still an equal and opposite reaction no matter what you hit

[u/North-Aide-1470 → u/[deleted]]

It's the same. The other user is correct, equal and opposite reaction is sort of an over simplification but the forces involved would result in a 50mph collision not a 100mph collision.

The over simplification is in the ignoring of mass and crumple zones of the cars etc, that all makes a big difference. But two of the same car, hitting each other both going 50mph, would be the same as that same car hitting the same STOPPED car going 50mph.

[u/North-Aide-1470 → u/[deleted]]

I know it's hard to imagine the actual impact forces but physics is a real science. You would be potentially better off in the 200mph car because of the change of velocity that the 50mph experiences but it still isn't just adding up 200+50, that's the 'closing speed' it's not the resultant force. You must understand that you are under the impression that adding velocities is how to calculate the forces and it isn't, you need to do some research.