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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Mythbusters did this one and, surprisingly, the crash is way more fucked up at twice the speed on the wall

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Yeah, that's why I used the heavy caveats. The wall produces an inelastic collision which will do WAY more damage as all of the energy is arrested rather than an elastic collision of the two vehicles in which a good portion of energy is spread between the two bodies as they separate.