The faster you drive?

Vipassana

Sure, if you consider dying faster on impact, as safer.

I guess dead, is about as safe as anyone can get.

dirtytricksracing@sbcglobal.net

No that just means you can die quicker.

johnny c

false the more likely you are to get into an accident.

Pete T

Contrary to popular belief , speed does not kill. It is the energy
expended upon impact that kills.

thud.fan

When one drives 'fast,' there are compromises that have to be made. The first is time. The amount of reaction time needed to handle potential threats decreases. Another is distance. At higher speeds, the distance required to maneuver a vehicle increases. Steering a vehicle at 90 mph the same way it is done at 35 and the vehicle will depart from controlled handling. Seat belts and active and passive protective devices become virtually useless because all they are tested at is a speed of about 37 mph. The only safety component that can prevent a collision by a vehicle is in motion is the driver.

Qammaray

The chances are you might either end up in Radiology Department or 6 feet under.

Fast Reg

The faster you drive...

The less time you have to react to things happening around you.
The longer it will take to stop.
Emergency manoeuvres become more dangerous.
The higher your impact speed is likely to be.

Someone has already said that speed doesn't kill but the energy at the point of impact. This is only partly true. I could drive 100mph in perfect safety and yet be killed outright if I hit a tree at 50mph. The only difference is either hitting or missing the tree. But when I set out in the morning I have no idea whether or not I'm likely to be caught up in an accident. However, you can't completely seperate speed from this calculation.

The kinetic energy of an object increases exponentially with it's speed. The calculation is 0.5 x Mass (in kg) x the square of the Velocity (in m/s). Therefore a 1500kg car travelling at 50km/h (13.8889 m/s) has a kinetic energy of 1596.45 Joules. Double the speed to 100km/h (27.7778 m/s) and the kinetic energy leaps more than 300-fold to 578704.63 Joules.

What wrecks cars and kills the occupants is the energy of the impact. The greater the energy of the impact the greater will be the damage to the vehicle and the higher the risk of injury and death. Speed itself may not kill, but the faster you go the greater the amount of energy you carry.

Is it safe? What do you think?

bungee

depends how you look at it. you could say living to 110 is safer because less people die at that age than in their 60's<

pbleek

That's my thinking too, If I could drive at 200+ mph, my commute and most of the trips around town would take less than 5 minutes. The chances of getting hurt in 5 minutes are really slim,... lol.

Bryan W

Uhh no. I'm not sure of the technical term but basically the faster you go, the less you see around you and the smaller your point of vision gets. Think of it as a circle getting smaller and smaller. The faster you go, the harder it is to see. The human mind can only think so fast.

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