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Man, you can do that at 5 MPH and get a similar reaction. A few thousand pounds of car moving at 5MPH carries way more momentum than people realize.
Edit: 5 MPH is a brisk walk. If you've run into a lamppost or a tree during a brisk walk, then you should understand what I mean.
The weight of the car has no impact (excuse the pun) on the momentum of its passengers.
They actually did something similar with a bus (the large long distance type) when I was in school. Hard brake at walking speed, pretty brutal. IIRC the lesson was to brace against the back of the seat in front of you when there's an imminent impact/brake event, though of course you usually don't know beforehand.
When I was doing my driving licence, here it's mandatory to visit a a slick course before you get your licence. In summer it's soap and oil or in the winter its ice and water.
Anyway, they had this tiny rig. A car seat, but it's on a rail, but the rail is only some 1m-1.5m (3-5ft) long, and on like a 5-15° angle, but it simulates a dead stop at like 10-20km/h or smth kinda low. And even that was pretty brutal.
That sounds wonderful. With the amount of total morons on the road today, this needs to be implemented in every US state.
Having seen some videos of North Americans (sans some Alaskans and Canadians) driving in snow, I wholeheartedly agree.
This is gonna come off as racist and sexist, but anyway, the day I was on the track, during winter, there was three of us in the car + the teacher. Me, my mate and a muslim woman who hadn't lived in Finland for too long, and was from a theocratic and patriarchic society. When it was her turn, and the teacher eventually pulled the handbrake just to simulate her losing control... she let go of the wheel, placed her hands on her eyes and started screaming. But she got over it by the end of the day, so...
Oof. I feel for her. That fight/flight/freeze response can be really hard to override, especially given her background.
I taught myself how to drive in the snow pretty soon after I got my license, in a 1991 FJ80 Land Cruiser with zero electronic aids. I figured out how to drift that pig through the whole church parking lot 😂, but being able to do that on my own was hugely beneficial to where I can now make my FWD cars perform better in the snow than most drivers here with 4WD. I just turn off traction control if it's too hairy... Sometimes you need that wheelspin.
unless you find yourself between the car and a stationary object, the few thousand pounds of car has no influence here.
I do agree though that a human body traveling at 5MPH do carry way more momentum than many realize.
After getting their way, I am not sure why would they turn around and go back home without accomplishing the errand...
They'd been taught the reason for seatbelts, then they had to learn a lesson about being disrespectful and ungrateful.
If I'm driving your ass to buy drugs and I tell you to wear your seatbelt you wear your searbelt
Fuck you man, just drive.
Get out of my fucking car and walk.
Because they're a dickhead that doesn't deserve a favour.
Asks for favor, but then says fuck you... No, fuck you, sir. Get out of my car and walk.
Anon is definitely lawful neutral.