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A 7,000-Pound Car Smashed Through a Guardrail. That’s Bad News for All of Us.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/11676601
A 7,000-Pound Car Smashed Through a Guardrail. That’s Bad News for All of Us.
So they dont work for semi trucks? Thats concerning.
There is very little that can stop a semi-truck at highway speeds
In Switzerland we have Sand-Strips every so often for exactly that reason. If a Truck loses its Breaks it can drive into these Sand-Strips and it will safely and “gently” be stopped.
We have those in the US as well but the are filled with gravel I believe so the truck an get stuck in it to slow down even more but only in mountain areas do we have them.
to be fair, i do believe swizerland is entirely mountain areas
We have those in America too, we call them runaway ramps