Onion Video: Obama Replaces Costly High-Speed Rail Plan With High-Speed Bus Plan
News Segment: Caltrans considering 140 mph bus that would take passengers from San Francisco to Los Angeles
Had a good laugh when they pulled up a similar CGI animation on the news segment.
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I’m all for extra public transit, but 140mph on a bus (not a guided bus) sounds highly unsafe. 70mph is more realistic.
Kinetic energy rises with the square of velocity, so a 140mph bus would have 4x the KE of a 70mph bus.
- 70mph crash: dangerous but should be survivable for seat-belted passengers.
- 140mph crash: probably fatal to everyone on board and anyone in its path.
