82 points

Lmao ain’t no commercial car in existence that can go 420mph. Cop saved you a ticket if you’re not an idiot about things.

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83 points

I would expect that any commercial car can go 420mph if you drop it from high enough.

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39 points

Ok now I need to run a cfd sim to check the terminal velocity of a car…

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6 points

What’s the outcome?

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14 points

If not, there’s always trebuchets.

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10 points

There are few discussions I have in my daily life that can’t be made more entertaining by adding “If not, there’s always trebuchets.”

Thank you for enriching my future conversations!

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11 points

Terminal velocity is a thing that exists.

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9 points

Well sure, that’s why I couched it with “I would expect.” My guess is that most cars, even the Peel P50, have enough mass to surface area ratio to reach 420mph. But I haven’t done the math.

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9 points

Drop it from outside the atmosphere. It will hit 420mph probably

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5 points

Looks like a human is somewhere in the range of 200-300mph, give or take a bit. A car is probably higher, but it really depends on orientation. I wouldn’t be surprised if a car couldn’t surpass 420mph.

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3 points

if you drop it from high enough

Just go high enough that drag is negligible. :)

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No, terminal velocity is somewhere around 110mph I think. Unless you’re talking about sending it into space.

Edit: yes I have read more about this since making the comment. Big thanks to a mediocre education decades ago for what I thought I knew.

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2 points

To be fair, I did say “high enough.” Get it beyond the atmosphere and it’ll easily hit 420mph. Just know there won’t really be anything left for your insurance company to appraise.

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2 points

Pretty sure that’s terminal velocity of a falling human. It will likely be much higher for a car.

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2 points

Terminal velocity depends on the drag profile and weight of an object. So it actually depends what shape the vehicle is and it’s mass.

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2 points

Might be km/h

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11 points

Nope, still doesn’t work. The fastest commercially available cars don’t go much faster than 220mph, which is about 350kmh.

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According to that list, the fastest is 295 mph ≈ 474 km/h

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-1 points

Is this bait or did you just not realise its a joke (fake scenario) ?

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10 points

Neither, lmao. Sometimes a good discussion can be had by simply following through on silly premises.

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44 points

“I have proof my car can’t go that fast”

Open and shut case.

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35 points

You think. There was an infamous case in Hungary where someone was cited for allegedly going 260 kmh in downtown Budapest. In an old Ford Transit van. While reversing.

The police simply refused to entertain the idea that someone knocked the camera and it made a bad read.

They had to close off the street and demonstrate that the van couldn’t get to 260 in reverse.

The most memorable thing of the whole case was the head of the police saying with a straight face “Hungarian traffic laws are not enforced according to the laws of physics”, as part of the prosecution argument.

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3 points

It sounds like they won the case, did they not?

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2 points

Only because the victim had a lawyer friend who worked pro bono, and it still took years.

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43 points

You in court: Because i was blazin bitches!!!(sticking tongue out, hands wide and making finger gestures)

Judge (looking at you weird): … five years no parol … NEXT!

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21 points

Cool cops put down 420. It isn’t about speed, it is about weed.

(or did everyone already realize that?)

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14 points

Yup.

And OP wanted 69 instead, the funny sex number, in case someone missed that too.

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16 points

Where I live, the highway speed limits are 65 and State patrol are always sitting near my house, often ticketing people for as little as 70. I set my cruise at 69. It’s nice.

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