Of course, as ScubaSteve noted, a large number of collisions occur between vehicles of different sizes (and the rest).
If a 1 tonne vehicle at 80 km/h collides with a 2 tonne vehicle at 80 km/h, the result is the 1 tonne vehicle moving backwards at 26 km/h. That means it effectively decelerated from 106 km/h, which is a little less than double the energy.
So if you are in a small car and faced with deciding between colliding with an immovable object or the afore-mentioned HPE, chose the immovable object.
Really interesting video. It's challenging to be wrong, but hey, it's a learner.
Back in the real world, would you rather be hit by a car doing 50, or a car doing 30?
I know, I know, we'd rather not be hit by a car.
I remember when they proposed raising the speed limit from 80kph, the AA asked a german road safety advisor to assess our roads for a suggested limit -he suggested setting it at 140kph, he was shot down of course, but that speed is in my opinion realistic, but that's relevant to the driver being of reasonable skill level , who is paying attention and thinking ahead.
I used to say to people that they should remove the airbags from the steering wheel and put a large steel spike there instead, then people would pay a lot more attention and would be really keen on not crashing !!!
Slightly. For three years. Prior to which it's been going down for decades, 90% of which is engineering related.
Let's not overreact here, we're still well below the fatalities we managed 10 years ago, when you would have had to drive the length of NZ an average of sixty two thousand times to have a decent chance of popping your clogs.
Go soothingly on the grease mud, as there lurks the skid demon
I doubt any German would have said that.
I've ridden/driven in Germany and its several levels above the windy twisty goat tracks we have here as well as much more disciplined drivers ( saying that my last time there was before dumb phones)
Portugal, Spain an Greece is more like here.
80 would be fine, just leave home earlier and enjoy the drive/ride.
DeMyer's Laws - an argument that consists primarily of rambling quotes isn't worth bothering with.
another factor for more recent years road toll could be the amount of immigrants who are not used to out roading network and rules .
if we lower speed limits it won't make people better drivers, it will only compound the problem, I'm sure that driving at higher speeds can increase the level of skill , to simply associate less deaths by driving slower is ignoring the cause of crashes - crap driving skills, and lack of due care , saying that won't improve via better training is just copping out , every human endeavour is carried out more efficiently by training
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