Nine Cambodians killed in Thai road accident

[DLP]

Nine Cambodians killed in van crash

The Nation

Looks like the guy is smoking a joint and the copper is taking a photo of them both with his mobil phone.

[ATF]

So where is the road rage tie-in to this post? The newsletter emphasizes road rage but apparently it is a bogus reference. Is tis not disrespectful to the nine Cambodian souls that perished?

I don't see anyone taking about road rage. Road rage is when you take out your baseball bat or tire iron and batter someone senseless because they cut you up or whatever.

Anyway I blame the whole problem on uneducated people's poor understanding of Physics namely Newton's 3 Laws of Motion. They should understand the 1st Law, Inertia which means everything moving wants to go in a straight line and the 2nd Law which is Force = Mass x Acceleration.

So Somchai always takes the corner in his minivan at 120kph with a normal load but when the mass has doubled the cornering speed needs to be reduced or he needs racing suspension. Newton knew his stuff if he had been driving this accident would never have happened.

The half a liter of alcohol and the meth in his system is also telling him he can alter the space time continuum, so there is the root of the problem. Teach drivers Quantum Physics!

On a separate note 1000's will drink themselves to death over the holiday and many others will die from drugs.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

[Just1Voice]

So where is the road rage tie-in to this post? The newsletter emphasizes road rage but apparently it is a bogus reference. Is tis not disrespectful to the nine Cambodian souls that perished?

I don't see anyone taking about road rage. Road rage is when you take out your baseball bat or tire iron and batter someone senseless because they cut you up or whatever.

Anyway I blame the whole problem on uneducated people's poor understanding of Physics namely Newton's 3 Laws of Motion. They should understand the 1st Law, Inertia which means everything moving wants to go in a straight line and the 2nd Law which is Force = Mass x Acceleration.

So Somchai always takes the corner in his minivan at 120kph with a normal load but when the mass has doubled the cornering speed needs to be reduced or he needs racing suspension. Newton knew his stuff if he had been driving this accident would never have happened.

The half a liter of alcohol and the meth in his system is also telling him he can alter the space time continuum, so there is the root of the problem. Teach drivers Quantum Physics!

On a separate note 1000's will drink themselves to death over the holiday and many others will die from drugs.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

And most will die from acute stupidity.

[ATF]

In my mathematics 9 + 14 = 23 As the article states that nine were killed and fourteen others were hospitalised it cannot have been a minibus unless it was grossly overloaded. Please see "Legal definition of a minibus"

http://www.minibuswebsite.com/htm/definition.htm

Most vehicles suffer from poor braking when loaded to maximum capacity. Only vehicles such as Range Rovers and Bugatti Veyrons that have enormous ventilated disc brakes can be trusted to stop. Budget quality vehicles that only have drum brakes can be very very iffy (guess how I know?). OK if the vehicle is only driven on level ground at moderate speeds drum brakes will be OK. The problem arises on hills as there is a vast amount of potential energy to dissipate.

Say we have twenty people on the minibus each weighing 75 kilos. That is 1.5 tonnes of people. Lets say the minibus weighs 2.5 tonnes empty, we now get a total weight of 4 tonnes. Now imagine that the minibus has to descend a hill that is 100 metres high. In its descent it will lose 4 Megajoules of energy. Assuming that the gradient is a mere 1 in 20 the 100 metre drop will involve 2KM of road. Now here is the interesting part, lets assume that the brakes are used to prevent the speed from rising above 60 KM/H. At this speed the 2KM will only take two minutes so the power dissipation from the brakes will be 2 Megajoules minute or approximately 33 kilowatts. (this dissipation is for a moderate gradient that is descended at a moderate speed) Note that with drum brakes the entire 33 kilowatts has to make its way through the cast iron brake drum so overheating and brake fade is likely. At 120 KM/H which is now a fairly standard highway speed in Europe, the brake dissipation on such a grade would be about 66 kilowatts and this is just to stop the speed from rising. To actually brake to a standstill the vehicle's Kinetic Energy also has to be disposed of. Nice big heavy duty ventilated disc brakes will do this easily but undersized drum brakes can be very iffy. This is especially the case with soft high-friction brake linings which do have the cost advantage of not requiring a brake servo. The de-luxe Ferodo VG95 brake lining resists brake-fade very well but unless one has legs as strong as an elephant's, a brake servo is essential.

Of course it is possible to use a "Jake Brake" or a Telma Electric Retarder but these cost money!.

Always remember the golden rule "Never start something unless you can stop it!" Over in the UK standards are SO much higher as at one MOT test the tester was quibbling over a brake force of 800 kilos per wheel on a Range Rover! (Allegedly he has now been sacked!)

RIP for all the victims and I do hope that the injured get well soon.

Again another person who doesn't understand Physics. Gyroscopic force is what takes you around a corner, not brakes. Again refer to Newton's 1st Law Inertia.

Whatever vehicle you are driving brake or shift down a gear BEFORE entering the corner then increase acceleration at the apex to use gyroscopic inertia to pull you through. Works every time.

[kevin2852]

I agree with unamosity, except that I feel that the stupidity ain't Acute, it is Chronic