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I would let myself die because this scene is so far removed from the laws of physics that I spent my life studying and my entire career would now be completely worthless.
It’s sad that mythbusters isn’t running anymore. It’d be interesting to see them trying to recreate this scene with a remotely controlled car.
If there’s any inexplicably wealthy science adjacent YouTubers reading this, hire a disused runway and steal this idea. Once you’ve proven tyres have more grip than wood, try it on the grass next to the runway or headon for your viral money shot.
What would realistically happen when the logs fall off the truck? They still have their forward speed, so braking should be enough to avoid them, right?
They’re not going to go very far forward due to friction, and stopping distance will be longer on the wet road, so I think steering to the right would be the better bet. Don’t brake or you’ll lose traction, just swerve a bit and aim for the grass on the edge of the roadway, hopefully it’ll slow you down while getting away from the logs.
They would probably never fall off in the first place, which is why you’ve never heard of anything remotely like this ever happening. Usually, there’s two supports, one in the front and one in the back. Even if one of these large steel posts somehow fails, the other one will hold the logs long enough for the driver to stop the car. They’ve almost certainly tested stuff like this from a standstill while designing those beds. Same principle holds for ratchet straps, although there will be far more than 2 straps, making catastrophic failure even rarer, and those would be routinely inspected for damage.
Oh, hey, it’s Pseudotsuga menziesii.
Enter a Sherlock Holmes-esque state of hyper awareness. Calculate the distance to the log based on parallax and distance between my eyes. Calculate time to impact given relative speeds (this calculation costs precious microseconds but is indispensable). Note the positions of every car around and the age and apparent gender of every driver. Adjust the steering wheel so that the log impacts right between myself and my passenger. Upon impact, adjust steering based on road position and positions and probable reactions of other drivers to bring my car safely to a stop without causing further damage.
Same here except one difference. I would immediately get impaled right as I start the calculations.
Inertia says that the log is moving roughly the same speed as the truck, so I’ll apply the brakes and move to the right.
might have hit the ground and bounced
Sure, but it’s skidding across the pavement, not flying at my face at 75mph. I can stop faster than it can.
Terrifying is the video I saw of bricks falling off of an oncoming truck, coming through the windshield.
We’re you trying to re-traumatize everyone? Fuck that video. There’s maybe 3 videos ever online that can do that and that video is 2 of them, at least.
It’s the scream of realisation. Haunting.
I am still happy I never actually watched it and just saw the thumbnail. I do not want the horrors described by the comments.
The video doesn’t show anything. It’s just the brick coming through the windshield. The sound is what’s haunting.
I know. Does not change my stance.
No the log actually has a hidden rocket motor in the side not visible to us and is accelerating to escape velocity towards the car.
Realistically, I’d let it happen. No ragerts.
Realistically, there would be very little if any time remaining to experience regret.
Speed up
The NASCAR theory…
Duck, piefucker!
Puck, diefucker!
Fuck, diepucker!
Reddit, redditor!
Gatekeep, gatekeep0r!
Trying, tryharder!
Thank God it’s finally over
I actually had this thought once. Long time ago I was in this industrial workplace accident (don’t wear loose fitting clothes near huge spinning things) and to cut to the chase I ended up on the floor bleeding and I’m guessing the shock made it so that I couldn’t breathe for around a minute. I can hold my breath for a minute, no problem, but in the moment when you don’t know what is happening and you can’t breathe and there’s no way to just start breathing, that minute felt very very long. I remember thinking “well, this is it, I will die now, but… I guess it’s for the best.”
Turns out I had been depressed for a while, and needed some change in my life.
swerve right asshole
assholes always swerve right
Log out
I haven’t been able to log out for over 2 decades 💀
send me the logs I’ll troubleshoot what’s preventing logging out.
There are medicines for that… 😳
I heard that KCN works great, I haven’t tried it yet. 🫠
(Warning: This is not medical advice. Do not try this at home.)
What’s kcn
Oh its just dark humor.
The comment I replied to said “medicine” and KCN is Potassium Cyanide, a deadly poison. Basically my comment is a euphemism for the fact that I wanna kill myself.
Don’t. KCN is incredibly painful. There are better ways.
I have a bridge near me, its like 130 feet ish above the water. I’m not sure if its tall enough.
There’s also the land area right before the bridge goes over the water. If I jump off from the part above land, its 130 feet into land.
I heard that your brain doesn’t even have time to process it.
That being said, I’m still kinda hanging on to see more TV shows and Movies.
The world is collapsing, and I kinda wanna see how this story ends. WW3? 👀
But I guess its mostly just the survival insticts in the dna that kinda made it difficult for me to make an attempt. The fear of death.
Its so ironic, 2 forces of you brain acting against each other. The conscious part that wants the suffering to end, and the subconscious desire to continue existing.
Welp, I guess I’m stuck here.
No quitting allowed, my subconsious brsin decrees… 🤷♂️
If you can’t bring yourself to do it, be it because you think people will suffer and be sad when you’re gone or that the world will be a worse one without you then you really shouldn’t do it. You most likely don’t actually want to in that case. There are exceptions, like terminally ill people who just can’t anymore, but if you have doubts about suicide, then you should see someone about it. Also, you will very likely survive ~35 meters. General rule of thumb is 50 meters for hard surfaces (concrete, compacted dirt, rocks) and 100 m for water. Please don’t jump from there. You will cripple yourself and hate yourself for that attempt forever. (There’s most likely a safety net too, so you’ll break a bunch of bones if you’re unlucky)
Well Good thing I’m in America. Suicide by cop is also quite popular.
Might just decide to take a few of these fascist pigs out while I’m at it.
Edit: I know you’re trying to help, I’m just venting.
Simple. Seen this a thousand times.
Freeze frame - cue narrator
“I bet you’re wondering how I ended up here…”
Then I fuckin bail before the freeze frame is over.
Roll credits.
It’s obvious you all haven’t taken American media seriously, and it’s sad. The great story tellers of our time have spent countless hours and mountains of money to teach you lessons from the annals of history and it consistently falls on deaf ears to the inevitable demise of civilization.
One day people will tell tales of the great visionaries such as James Wong, true prophets of times long past who spent their lives and vast borrowed fortunes attempting to warn the masses of future catastrophes as foretold by the wise and all knowing producers, the forgotten gods of our times, who sacrificed their own lives and hard earned connections, in a fruitless attempt to spare future generations from the predicted inevitable rise of death itself, using math to systematically destroy us one by one.
If only we had paid attention and not been distracted by the irresistible whores of Hollywood who tempted us with dreams of superheroes and anthropomorphic stones assuming the the roles of so called “actors”, posing as “action heroes” we might leave a better legacy for the future generations of content consumers who will surely mock us for our ignorance as they smash that like button.
Passenger’s seat perspective. So from that angle there is nothing to do. It is always best to relax. There is a reason drunks often survive the crashes they cause that kill others. It is kinda hard to do in the moment without practice. In the crash that broke my neck and back, there are only a few moments of very hazy dream like memories that I’ve recalled over the years since. One of those was that I somehow tried to put up my hands or some way I tried to catch myself as I hit the jeep on a bike at 29 MPH. I only really remember thinking for a moment, “fucking never do that again” next moment I’m with some paramedics talking about getting me stable enough to transport and trying to get someone to call that could show up at hospital. I was only able to remember phone numbers and my address from when I was in highschool 10 years before and 2k miles away. I felt super stressed because I knew I was doing it but couldn’t figure it out. I finally remembered my sister’s number and relaxed, staying unconscious for 3 hours after.
That is what it is really like with severe head and neck trauma. Your conscious mind is quite disconnected from your limbic system. If you die, you likely won’t even know. I had no idea how close I had come to dying until many things that came out of the personal injury case that followed and stuff since then…
For me, I wouldn’t follow that kind of truck closely or casually at all. I’m aware of how it is loaded and the disconnect between the loader operator and low pay driver, on a truck likely held together with JB Weld and duct tape. But yeah, just relax. If you die, you die. No big deal. You won’t even know it happened, so why stress.
Hope you have recovered from or, are recovering from the injuries.
I have nothing to add except, fuck drunk drivers, I hope they all crash safely into a ditch.
And lose their license
And have to start their legal drinking age over again from zero
