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Why a passenger who is not wearing a safety belt will likely hit the windshield in a head on collision?
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∙ 6y ago
Because of inertia (Newton's First Law), the person will keep moving forward with the same velocity that they were travelling before the collision. Also, following Darwin's Law of natural selection, it is a mechanism for removing undesirable traits (idiocy) from the human gene pool.
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∙ 6y ago
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∙ 14y agoBecause of the property of inertia. Newton's First Law states that an object in motion tends to stay in motion unless acted upon by an outside force. Thus, the car hits another car. This is a very significant force, acting on the car, which causes it to come to a very sudden stom. That force did not act on our unfortane person with no seatbelt. Thus they continue worard and whatever the speed on the car was, 20mph?, 50mph?, 100mph?. The windshield now provides the force against the person's motion which is either sufficient to stop them, in which they are smashed on the windshield, or it is insufficent, in which case they go through the windshield and are sliced to ribbons by the broken glass. Not pretty in either scenario.
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∙ 6y agoThat's what the safety belt is used for - to avoid that from happening.
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