F = ma Big mass of car means even 20mph -> 0 acceleration is a large force. A friend of mine once had an incident where they drove an old car into a brick wall while going less than 15mph. It still tore a hole in the wall. Store fronts are less strong than brick walls. QED.

I’m not going to argue with someone who thinks a smart car going 30 hits just as hard as an f150 going 40. Says nothing of the fact that it’s easier to stop, turn, and just spot hazards from lower speeds. I don’t know where this idea that faster is safer comes from; but it’s fucking stupid

Assuming a 1s acceleration, 1mph ≈ 1.6kph (as Newtons are metric), rounding up the weights of the latest Smart Car models to around 800kg, and the F150 to around 1900kg: 800kg * (30mph * 1.6) ≈ 38,600N 1900kg * (40mph * 1.6) ≈ 115,900N So actually the F150 here hits about 3x harder. Simple physics

This reinforces exactly what I *actually* said, if you would've read it before responding, which is that massive vehicles moving at legal road speeds still produce a lot of force on impact.

That isn’t what you said though. Maybe you think you did, but you didn’t. What you said is that lowering speeds doesn’t make a difference

I never said that anywhere. You imagined I said that because in the haze of being mad on the internet you lost your ability to read. Try looking at my posts again when they aren't shaded in all red lmfao

Don’t try and gaslight me now. If your response to we should slow cars down Is Actually slowing them won’t make a difference Then what you’ve said is that you don’t believe in physics. If you acknowledge more speed and more weight is worse in every single scenario; then nothing else to say.

I never said slowing down doesn't make a difference lmfao you are reading into my post where I said I'm in favor of speed regulators because you're so mad that you're imagining something to be mad at.

F = ma directly implies that going faster produces more force given the same period of accel and mass. What I was saying is not that going faster wouldn't make a collision worse (duh) but that it doesn't take much speed to produce the effect in the clip. Now calm down before you hurt yourself LOL

Maybe that’s what you thought you said; but you didn’t. But if you now admit that you agree, speed actually is the factor (contrary to what you said earlier) then there is nothing else to say.

If you agree that going faster increases the risk of collision as well as the harm from the said collison; then there is nothing else to be said here. You don’t need to keep quoting 5th grade physics at me. I understand it. Something it’s not entirely clear you do.

It is not clear to you that I do because you got so mad that you imagined I said something I didn't. I then illustrated what basic physics says about the case and you doubled down in your psychosis 🤭

Any crash that did occur at 40 is less likely to have occurred at 30; and will do less harm if it does occur. That’s just physics. Anyone who says (or believes) that speed is not the decisive factor in *every* collision ever; is objectively wrong.