In article >,
"Rod Speed" > wrote:

> Alan Baker > wrote in message
> ...
> > Rod Speed > wrote
>
> >> Alan Baker > wrote
>
> >> >> >> > The force of car colliding with another car even at very slow
> >> >> >> > speed
> >> >> >> > is going to cause the front car to move despite having the breaks
> >> >> >> > on.
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> Complete crap. The front car is only going to move if its hit with
> >> >> >> enough force to drag all 4 tires across the road with the brakes on.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > I'm not going to bother trying to educate you about physics.
> >> >>
> >> >> Even you should be able to bull**** your way out
> >> >> of your predicament better than that pathetic effort.
> >> >>
> >> >> Its VERY basic physics that if the brakes are on, it takes a lot
> >> >> more force to move the car into the car in front of it, dragging
> >> >> the tyres across the road than it does with the brakes off.
> >>
> >> >> Try pushing the car in both situations and then find
> >> >> a VERY large towel to use on your silly little face.
> >>
> >> > I never said it was as easy to move a car
> >> > with the brakes on as with the brakes off.
> >>
> >> Even you should be able to bull**** your way out
> >> of your predicament better than that pathetic effort.
> >>
> >> Obviously not.
> >>
> >> > But if you hit a car at anything above a very slow walking
> >> > pace, it is going to move some, even with the brakes on.
> >>
> >> And what matters is whether it moves
> >> enough to hit the car in front of it, stupid.
>
> > I'd tell you to do the math, but I don't think you can.
>
> You cant even manage to work out what is actually being discussed.
>
> WHETHER THE STATIONARY CAR HAVING THE BRAKES ON AT
> THE TIME OF THE COLLISION WILL REDUCE THE RISK OF IT
> GETTING RAMMED INTO THE STATIONARY CAR IN FRONT OF THAT.
>
> Of course it will, and you dont need any maths to work that out you fool.

I never said it wouldn't.

What I objected to was you saying it was:

"> Even foot on brake if you are too close to the car
> in front won't save you, your car is going to move.

Wrong."

It isn't wrong. If you are "too close" to the car in front of you, then
having the brakes on won't save you.

--
Alan Baker
Vancouver, British Columbia
"If you raise the ceiling 4 feet, move the fireplace from that wall
to that wall, you'll still only get the full stereophonic effect
if you sit in the bottom of that cupboard."