Terrestrial Armor installed (Underbody Shield & Rock Sliders / Structural Rockers)

[BrockN]

I do but:
A. Not all roads are that way
B. There is an exponential efficiency loss relationship related to speed and with the obsession I frequently see on here with wh/mile I would think that would matter more to people.
C. Please read this very carefully friends even though you don’t want to….there is VERY strong data correlating mortality and injury severity score in the event of a freeway accident with travel at high speed and the inflection point of that data in modern vehicles appears to happen at about 68 miles per hour. Do with that what you will.

Your comment in (C) is essentially just physics presented as statistics.

Kinetic Energy (KE) is 0.5 times Mass times the Square of Velocity (1/2 m V^2). The KE your body holds as you cruise down the highway is the KE that must be dissipated into the seatbelt or windshield when you come to an abrupt stop. It's the V^2 term that kills you, or if you're lucky, just effs you up. Double the speed, quadruple the energy into the windshield.

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[hemiarch]

Your comment in (C) is essentially just physics presented as statistics.

Kinetic Energy (KE) is 0.5 times Mass times the Square of Velocity (1/2 m V^2). The KE your body holds as you cruise down the highway is the KE that must be dissipated into the seatbelt or windshield when you come to an abrupt stop. It's the V^2 term that kills you, or if you're lucky, just effs you up. Double the speed, quadruple the energy into the windshield.

Yes. Yes. Yes. And yes.
I was just trying to impress on our friends that this has real world consequences for a lot of people. It’s ok to make decisions to the contrary, but being informed is an important part of being a decision maker.

 

[dalton108]

Yes. Yes. Yes. And yes.
I was just trying to impress on our friends that this has real world consequences for a lot of people. It’s ok to make decisions to the contrary, but being informed is an important part of being a decision maker.

I thought of you today when I was coming home on the I-15 northbound traveling at 80 mph to match the flow of traffic on that 70 mph speed limit interstate and being passed by every car in the vicinity! I was simultaneously being passed on both the left and right while I was in the center lane. Not by one or two cars but constantly I wish I had video.

Average driver was doing 85 to 90.

 

[BrockN]

Yes. Yes. Yes. And yes.
I was just trying to impress on our friends that this has real world consequences for a lot of people. It’s ok to make decisions to the contrary, but being informed is an important part of being a decision maker.

Completely understand. I've come to realize that most people think that twice the speed just means any injuries will be twice as bad.. not four times as bad. I've been on the wrong end of that equation (not of my own doing) and have a great respect for V^2!

 

[hemiarch]

I thought of you today when I was coming home on the I-15 northbound traveling at 80 mph to match the flow of traffic on that 70 mph speed limit interstate and being passed by every car in the vicinity! I was simultaneously being passed on both the left and right while I was in the center lane. Not by one or two cars but constantly I wish I had video.

Average driver was doing 85 to 90.

I’m flattered that I crossed your mind and your point is well taken. There are many instances when driving too slowly is more dangerous than speeding like the one you just described.
Hard to tell that without looking at the decisions all the drivers around you are making. I imagine pretty soon it will become WW FSD D (what would FSD do)
I can see that acting as the litmus test for what’s reasonable on the road because after all, it’s the compilation of machine learning from millions of reasonable drivers in millions of similar situations.
Do you think the law would ever regard it as such?

 

[DiscoXD]

Follow up to my missing fasteners, my very top front passenger side bolt holding the underbody shield looks to have been stripped and then broke off during install and I am also missing a bolt next to it holding the rocker panels up. The mobile service rep who came out to install the fasteners saw this and made me another appt. Pretty irritating they just let me drive away with it instead of telling me about their mistake. Oh well they’ll make it right.

I’ll grab photos later today and post them

Just picked mine up from the armor package install. Missing a bolt on the drivers front rock slider. Hole doesn’t even come close to lining up……

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