• TheOakTree@lemmy.zip
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    8 hours ago

    I just don’t understand how people are conflating speed differentials at highway speed and speed differentials when driving past a parked car.

    A faster vehicle takes longer to brake and imparts more energy in a collision. Even in scenarios where the relative speeds are always the same, an accident will be more deadly, and accidents will always happen because people make mistakes.

    • Fleur_@aussie.zone
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      4 hours ago

      All proponents of speeding do not have an intimate understanding of KE = 1/2mv^2