Comment Re:Also consider equilibrium. (Score 1) 666
I may write software for a living, but I respect physics.
But do you actually know math? IF you were in a head on collision with someone doing twice your speed (assuming you are doing 55) things will be bad, but things would be bad if you were in a head on collision with someone doing the same speed as you.
But it is difficult to get into a head on collision on a freeway. So someone hitting you at twice your speed would be much like you hitting that guardrail at 55... In fact it would be better, as the impact would be spread over more of the vehicle, than when you hit the guard rail.
I wouldn't want to get into an accident, but if I had a choice I'd choose hitting another vehicle, going in the same direction, if if they were going faster, than hitting a stationary object.