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Originally Posted by Jason14h
100 meters to think and stop at 110 KM/H… umm yeah ok
Go look how long 100 meters is . I could put my feet into the ground like in the Flintstones and stop the car in 100 meters
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This is a pretty common misconception, you really cant. The human brain evolved to estimate and handle running speeds. Travelling by car makes people overestimate their abilities
Let's say you have average reaction times and register the need to brake in your head to actually putting your foot on the brake in 3/4 second, 110km/hr is 30m per second, so in one second going 110 you have almost traversed 1/ 3 the distance before even starting to slow down. There are tons of articles or YouTube videos you can watch that go into far more detail, but the tl;dr is that people are notoriously bad at estimating how much time and space they actually have in a vehicle