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Originally Posted by CamaroSkooter
Well, now you're talking about energy transfer. If a 120kph car hits an identical stationary car, then the moving vehicle will transfer roughly half of its kinetic energy into the stationary vehicle, and the two will begin moving in the same direction as the first vehicle was (assuming the stationary vehicles tires were already pointing that direction). The speed that they both end up going, though, will not be half of the original moving vehicle's speed  |
I never was making the claim that they would be going half the speed after the crash, all I said was that the force felt will be very similar to if both vehicles were going half the speed at each other. It makes no difference who is moving, what matters is how they move in relation to each other.