May 17, 2005
L.A. Traffic
KCAL Channel 9 got the pictures, but they'll let it expire off their servers so I'm going to keep a copy:
What happened is, to me, obvious. The lead car stopped. The middle car applied brakes and got into a tail up/nose down position. The rear car also applied brakes and got into a tail up/nose down postiion. The rear car was going faster and the nose down went under the tail up of the middle car and up-ended the middle car.
Really, really neat application of physics.
Posted by at May 17, 2005 06:21 PMComments