Seven_Dx7 t1_iu0bpts wrote
Hear me out.
With room in front of me, If a car hits my vehicle from the rear, then all of the force will be transfered through my rear crumple zone and their forward crumple zone, and then on to my vehicle. So thus I have to crumple zones and will receive the brunt of their force as they cause my vehicle to accelerate.
If I am right behind the car in front of me, then I will be pushed into that vehicle as well and then my front crumple zone and their rear crumple zone will absorb more of the initial force and my vehicle will pass force on the the front vehicle instead of absorb the force in the form of acceleration. In this scenario we have double the amount of buffers absorbing the initial force and extending the impact time, and thus less force experienced by my vehicle.
werepat t1_iu1571m wrote
The car in front of you is not "absorbing" force, it's imparting a force. Your vehicle is the one absorbing the force of the one that hit you.
You're saying you'd like to have two collisions as opposed to one.
XTraumaX t1_iu1ad0x wrote
“I would much rather mess up some unfortunate 3rd persons day because I refuse to mitigate potential damage to others by leaving space between us.”
That’s what you sound like right now
zapdado2002 OP t1_iu0v323 wrote
well id rather be pushed few meters making use of the tire friction and then use front persons crumple zones then to go directly into them. and also if u steer while being pushed, you could manouver yourself a bit more and maybe avoid crumpling all together
Seven_Dx7 t1_iu0vjxi wrote
Once you get hit, your airbags deploy. No more steering after that.
zapdado2002 OP t1_iu0vzst wrote
okay
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