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Re: Cheap Chinese electric cars are coming to the US and Europe

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Post by tk75x » Tue, Feb 05, 2019, 8:23 PM UTC

freehunter wrote: post #148

dsr_ wrote: post #97

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If you're on a 25mph road, you should assume a 50mph collision with a vehicle headed in the other direction.

Two cars of the same mass hitting each other head on at 25mph is the same as one car hitting a solid (immovable) wall at 25mph. Regardless, a bicycle moving at 25mph being hit head on by a car moving 25mph is going to be (at best) comparable to this thing getting hit at 25mph.

Two cars of the same mass hitting each other head on at 25 mph will be the same as one car hitting that wall at 50 mph. Remember p = mv and m1v1 = m2v2

Re: Cheap Chinese electric cars are coming to the US and Europe

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Post by Gibbon1 » Tue, Feb 05, 2019, 8:32 PM UTC

lukevdp wrote: post #228

Gibbon1 wrote: post #205

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My mom mentioned an old school way for a small child to die was to go out outside and play behind the car in the driveway. And then have daddy run them over backing out of the driveway. thump My own dad backed over my tricycle. Ever wonder why you only have automatic power windows on the drivers side? In the early sixties I had a second cousin strangled by one.

That’s not old school, sadly it still happens all the time (running over toddlers)

In the 60's people generally thought nothing of a 3 year old going out the front door by themselves. That's what I mean by old school.

I have a van without out a back up camera, I'm slightly terrified of backing up because of small scampering children and short Asian grandma's. I've noted balloon cross overs have the same problem.

Re: Cheap Chinese electric cars are coming to the US and Europe

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Post by tabtab » Tue, Feb 05, 2019, 10:01 PM UTC

saberience wrote: post #202

tabtab wrote: post #135

The US market is notoriously unforgiving of bad quality cars. Hyundai and Detroit are still trying to repair their damaged reputations from decades ago. Americans are car connoisseurs similar to how the French are food and drink connoisseurs. Tread carefully.

Car connoisseurs? Americans? Are you making a joke? Everything here is a huge, gas guzzling SUV, or a Ford F150 truck. Americans don't care about road feel/driving mechanics, artistic or elegant design. They want a huge and loud car to show other people how much better they are than them. Ideally, the bigger and louder and more brash, the better. This is a country that came up with "rolling coal" for god's sake. http…

There are different kinds of connoisseurs. While Europeans tend to prefer agile sports-cars, in part because they have more winding roads, less people do drive there.