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Originally Posted by Fediel  Consider the weight of a bike plus person vs the weight of a fully loaded truck.
Also - basic physics. If the bike comes at you from behind going 120 and the truck is going 70 then the relative difference is "only" 50 mph. So the biker has the same basic force as if he was going 50 mph into a wall, not 120, because the truck was moving away from him at 70 mph.
50 mph is still in the survivable range for a motorcycle accident. Certainly not something you would walk away from unscathed but you COULD live.
Also keep in mind that the trucker is in a cab that has some insulation and the road makes noise too.... he might hear a thump but the back of the truck is some 25 odd feet away, outside and the wind is blazing past. So they MIGHT feel it, maybe, but as to if they would actually feel it enough to stop their cab is debatable. They probably would think they ran over something minor or some cargo shifted and just keep going. The fully loaded truck (under DOT rules in the US) can be 80,000 lbs. The motorcycle is what? 800 with driver? So 1% of the mass. F=MA.... and his A is only 50 mph into the truck. I can do the calculation but I guarantee you the force felt on the truck driver is minimal at best. |
Go back your truck into a fucking cow going 50 and see if you notice anything
retard.
