Generations was definitely the most “Star Trek” of the TNG movies. Out of all the movies I think Star Trek VI was the best. Both of these used continuity to great effect to make a great story with a reasonable amount of action (though re-using the exact same footage was a ridiculous choice, like Trekkies wouldn’t…

A while back? I just saw new ones to the tune of “Chuck Norris caught all the Pokemon from his land line”

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That’s the problem, he didn’t choose to hit a brick wall at 65 or 75mph. He chose to go into whatever the computer inside his Tesla decided he would go into. In this case it was under a semi truck. Had it been a brick wall, he would have had a chance of surviving. But the speeding didn’t factor in to this case. The…

It’s a double win for them. They get to sell your information and then the stamps to deliver your junk mail too.

Are these the same state vehicle databases that have revoked my registration and driver’s license a year after I moved out of state and then sent me a renewal notice stating that my registration was about to expire another 6 months after that?

They must be the same idiots who buy “Ray.Bans” from Facebook spam.

I track my car regularly too, but that results in generally less following distances... Then again I drive a Miata so I figure I can stop in less distance than probably 95% of the cars on the road.

Exactly, for this particular case the “thinking distance” is infinite since thinking wasn’t going on.

I agree that brakes don’t make a difference for panic stops, but tires sure as hell do.

Except the real hazard is the people going slower. My problem is that people can say a driver is speeding by going 74 when 74 could be entirely safe and reasonable for the road, car, and conditions whereas the 65 mph speed limit is an arbitrary number pulled out of a politicians ass.

That being said, a reasonable speed…

The rules of the road are good for determining legally who is at fault. However, the rules of physics are a bitch and generally favor those who have greater mass. This is why if you ignore the law, physics sided with the semi truck.

And yet you posted a reply that is just as wrong. “exponentially” is an equation where the variable is in the exponent. Speed and energy is not one of those situations. The variable just happens to be squared where basic science and math education would tell you is a parabolic equation.

Wahhhh, speed kills right?

Secondly, speed has no relationship at all to potential energy. Physics calls that kinetic energy.

No, momentum is linear with velocity. Energy is proportional to the square of velocity. Momentum and energy are two different things.

No, it’s a parabolic increase in impact energy. Still more significant than linear, but let’s not get hyperbolic with the math terms here ;)

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THAT’S NOTHING! I had a Ford dealer sales guy tell my girlfriend (now wife) that all Fords had “stability control” which is an advanced safety feature that only luxury cars had until Ford introduced it across the entire line.

That’s when I pulled her away and told her it was a federally mandated…

“Yep, mine did that, too. I had to pull everything off and replace the picnic gasket.” -Yogi Bear

At least “why did you turn” has gone by the wayside...

Bump my ass. They were driving recklessly until they wrecked. They were passing on the right and gave it either too much throttle (power oversteer) or lifted rapidly (lift off oversteer). They were obviously exceeding the speed of traffic flow as even when backward and sideways they were passing other cars which tells…