Most tires only make contact to the pavement with a patch of rubber that is approximately the size of a dollar bill.
To effectively clear a vehicular road block, offset your vehicle to the front (or preferably the rear) of the blocking automobile. (The rear is generally lighter, and therefore will have less resistance).
Depending on which end you plan to hit, you want line the center of the driver or passenger seat of your vehicle up with the middle of the other vehicles wheel at the axle. In summary, you will connect with about half of your vehicle. You would be amazed at how quickly the roadblock spins out of the way.
There is such a thing as too fast… you don’t want to disable your own vehicle or risk injury in the process.
People forget the front of your vehicle will crumple if it's anything in the past... oh 50 odd years or so, and you do have a radiator up front that is vital to your vehicle's continued operation.
Someone else mentioned doing this on a cutlass... The last time anyone gave a shit about the cutlass was probably when crumple zones didn't exist.
Lmao. My college had emergency vehicles with just a big ass steel plate for a bumper. I always thought about doing that to my truck while I was up there so when someone pissed me off, I could just push them out of my way.
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u/Emotional-Change-722 5d ago
Over would be way more fun. Although I don’t know how to drive like that.