Evil Kanieval the stuntman figured out the terminal velocity of a human to be around 80 mph or so I believe, i imagine a car would be same or less, although it would probably fall engine side first?
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.
I would expect that any commercial car can go 420mph if you drop it from high enough.
Ok now I need to run a cfd sim to check the terminal velocity of a car…
What’s the outcome?
I unfortunately don’t have a cfd program, nor the skills to use one yet. Should by next year, definitely looking forward to it.
I need a ‘remind me in a year’ feature!
Evil Kanieval the stuntman figured out the terminal velocity of a human to be around 80 mph or so I believe, i imagine a car would be same or less, although it would probably fall engine side first?
If not, there’s always trebuchets.
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!
If it doesn’t work out, there’s always trebuchets.
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.
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.
I caught that and I tried to acknowledge it. But I think the implied part was that vehicles won’t go that fast under their own power.
Sure, that’s why what I said was funny. 😉
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.
Pretty sure that’s terminal velocity of a falling human. It will likely be much higher for a car.