on a public road, and the expected uproar resulted. Marko notes a dumbass comment:
“Aaah…how, exactly, was a guy on a motorcycle going to kill anyone? Most likely case: he crashes into a car, and he dies.”
As Marko notes, that's a big physics fail: say 400 pounds of bike, 150 pounds of rider at those speeds... he hits a car, the people in the car are in danger, and the car's going to be trashed.
Which reminded me of something, and I was able to find this from Sweden: idiot on a Honda doing about 155mph hit a Volkswagon. The impact actually flipped the car, with the bike embedded. Three people dead.
At 250 KM (155 mph) the operator is traveling at 227 feet per second. With normal reaction time to SEE-DECIDE-REACT of 1.6 seconds the above operator would have traveled over 363 feet while making a decision on what actions to take. In this incident the Swedish police indicate that no [such] actions were taken.
I'll bet the dumbass never even realized he was about to hit something.
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