Which one would you do for money, if any?

[Claw75]

No brainer for me - i actually find milliband quite attractive tbh.

Out of interest would the toe be raw or cooked? Would you have to eat the whole lot - nail, bone etc or just the flesh?

[Claw75]

Oops wrong thread

[kinboshi]

But more amusing because of that.

[Graham C]

No brainer for me - i actually find milliband quite attractive tbh.

Out of interest would the toe be raw or cooked? Would you have to eat the whole lot - nail, bone etc or just the flesh?

Would like to see the look of the random passer by that lost the toe as you whip out a camping stove and fry it up.

[Redsgirl]

None.

Is risking your life really worth a few quid?

I'd rather be alive and skint tyvm.

Very much this.

[EvilPie]

None.

Is risking your life really worth a few quid?

I'd rather be alive and skint tyvm.

Very much this.

Yep this for me as well.

You can pretty much guarantee that everyone who said they'd do it would bottle out at the last second as well. Not saying that's a bad thing, it's just survival instinct.

[DMorgan]

wouldn't be keen on either, but how old is the video and the cars?

what would a modern brand new design do at those speeds? (rheotorical question)

Vid was uploaded in 2013, could be much older though.

I think I'd strongly consider 1 and would definitely not go for 2 or 3.

At 35 I can't imagine much can happen to you in a modern car. Once you get to 50 though it feels like you could run bad and end up getting legs crushed and stuff with makes it a no brainer no for me.

My assumption that nothing that bad could happen at 35 has no basis in experience or facts though, could be way off

[edgascoigne]

£150,000: Wearing your seat belt and driving a Ford Focus, hit a telegraph pole head on at 35mph.

£350.000: As above, but at 50mph.

£1000.000: As above, but at 50mph with a 1 pint per minute leak in the petrol tank.

Good question.

My first requeste would be that a machine has to regulate the speed, I wouldn't want to be strung up on bottling it at the last minute, still taking the impact but not getting the beans. Second request would, naturally, be that the tank be as empty as possible!! (Weight plus fire risk).

Gut feel suggests to me that (1) isn't really a concern at all. The car with me in it is about 1,400kgs. The speed is about 15m/s. Someone who recalls GCSE physics better than me can fairly easily calculate the momentum the car is carrying and therefore the impact/energy of the crash. Would be v surprised if this crash isn't considered 'safe'.

(2) and (3).....if I am doing (2) I am doing (3). Concern though is with the extra speed the impact of the (relatively) instant deceleration is that much more pronounced. I would want to do some serious homework on this one but I *think* I would be up for it provided one is allowed to take the impact to the passenger side of the bonnet. Pretty sure the petrol leak is, to all intents and purposes, a red herring?

[edgascoigne]

£150,000: Wearing your seat belt and driving a Ford Focus, hit a telegraph pole head on at 35mph.

£350.000: As above, but at 50mph.

£1000.000: As above, but at 50mph with a 1 pint per minute leak in the petrol tank.

Good question.

My first requeste would be that a machine has to regulate the speed, I wouldn't want to be strung up on bottling it at the last minute, still taking the impact but not getting the beans. Second request would, naturally, be that the tank be as empty as possible!! (Weight plus fire risk).

Gut feel suggests to me that (1) isn't really a concern at all. The car with me in it is about 1,400kgs. The speed is about 15m/s. Someone who recalls GCSE physics better than me can fairly easily calculate the momentum the car is carrying and therefore the impact/energy of the crash. Would be v surprised if this crash isn't considered 'safe'.

(2) and (3).....if I am doing (2) I am doing (3). Concern though is with the extra speed the impact of the (relatively) instant deceleration is that much more pronounced. I would want to do some serious homework on this one but I *think* I would be up for it provided one is allowed to take the impact to the passenger side of the bonnet. Pretty sure the petrol leak is, to all intents and purposes, a red herring?

On second thoughts.... http://www.bikersrights.com/statistics/trauma.html

This site also useful http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/carcr2.html

[kinboshi]

The speed difference doesn't sound like a lot, but it's a big difference in the amount of energy involved.

E=½mv²

It's that squared bit that makes the difference. We're not too concerned about the momentum of the car itself, that's largely irrelevant. We're going to be strapped in, airbags in play, etc. Assuming we hit it straight on, then the engine block is going to impact the pole and the car is designed to crumple in a "safe" way. If we've got a helmet or goggles on, our eyes should be safe from glass and the danger is the forces acting on our internal organs. Basically, they're travelling at the same speed as the car and decelerate to zero in a split second. The forces involved there are pretty substantial. They're a lot more significant at higher speeds though as the organs' kinetic energy will be significantly more than at 50mph compared to 35mph.

Still think that if you're kitted up like an F1 driver, it's doable.

[kinboshi]

Love this discussion:

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/archive/index.php/t-30041.html

[lucky_scrote]

If you've ever been driving on the motorway at a high speed and then have to go through a 50mph zone it feels dreadfully slow. There is no way that anyone even considering doing 2 or 3 realise how fast 50mph is. You can definitely die at that speed or fairly likely receive an injury of some sort.

Number 1 isn't so bad if it were with a seat belt, but I don't think I could do it without. Possibly offer me £20-£30k and I would do it with a seatbelt.

Has anyone been in a car crash at direct impact at such speed? I was in the passenger seat of a corsa when I was 17 and went into the side of someone decelerating down from about 50mph to around 30-40mph (Call it 35!). The Corsa was amazingly written off with petrol all over the road and the front end of the car crushed heavily. The reality was, it didn't hurt one bit. We braced, had our seat belts on and I barely felt much force.

Without a seat belt however, I could have gone through the windscreen, lost an eye or whatever. The airbags might not deploy either, they didn't in my accident!