Originally Posted by Bladecutter
Originally Posted by DoubleWasp
Most road obstacles are best dealt with the brakes, and not the wheel. This is one of the first lessons truckers are taught.
Hi there.
Most people are NOT driving tractor trailers to and from work.
Some people drive small cars, some drive small suv's, some drive large cars, others drive large suv's, other drive pickup trucks.
Slamming on the brakes and hitting the moose with a car will most likely lead to a dead car driver, as a very heavy animal crushes them.
Slamming on the brakes and hitting the moose with a tractor trailer most likely doesn't lead to a dead tractor trailer driver.
So, one should never drive a car like a tractor trailer, nor should one drive a tractor trailer like a car, other wise if someone tried to pull off the moose maneuver with the tractor trailer, you would have a flipped over truck, and destroyed cargo.
Hence why this test exists.
BC.
Hi there to you too.
When exactly did I ever tell anyone to intentionally slam into a moose?
I'm from the North, so I'm quite familiar with wildlife ending up on the road.
This test is not a bad test. But in reality it only covers the "moose standing still in the middle of the road" scenario. If the thing suddenly jumps out of the woods, swerving around it is going to get distinctly harder, since that thing is going to explode out of pretty much nowhere, and be moving. This is how most vehicle/animal collisions occur. Not sure vehicle Dynamics even figure into that situation. I don't care if every vehicle in the world were replaced with Miatas. If someone or something runs out into the road while a car is approaching at those speeds, they are almost guaranteed to get slammed. The long drives on rural roads in wildlife country are not exactly known for helping drivers maintain razor sharp awareness and reflexes. I'd bet anything that the impact would occur with wheels pointed straight ahead with barely any braking beforehand.
Throw cones out across the road at a non-professional driver who has no idea that is about to happen, and let's see how all of those vehicles fare at that Moose Test.
Where the "Moose In The Road" situation is concerned, high beams and brakes should get anyone paying attention out of that situation easily enough. People who swerve to avoid an animal have a nasty tendency of ending up well off the road. And if there's trees on both sides, take a guess.
It's a darn good test of vehicle Dynamics, however.
I brought up trucks to demonstrate the point that swerving that drastically at that speed usually does not end any better, whether car or otherwise. Not to literally say, "Just run it through!".