The Interesting Reason Why Some Cars “Feel Fast”

If you have used different vehicles before, you may have noticed that some of them “feel faster”. I passed everything How can we feel what we call “speed”?

What we feel is not actually speed, and there are other interesting explanations why we feel this way. Let’s see some cars making it “feel faster” What are the reasons behind it?

What you feel is not speed, but acceleration.

You can’t tell what speed a car is going by “feeling” that speed, right? Because your body cannot feel the speed. If you think you feel speed, that thing you feel, is the acceleration or “g force” (the vector sum of the “non-gravitational” forces experienced by a free moving object). If you are at a constant speed, your acceleration is zero. As your speed increases, your acceleration increases.

Any change in direction in the car affects the amount of g-force, resulting in acceleration. There are also very small accelerations, such as going over bumps. In such places, the car accelerates upwards and descends back. Micro accelerations So it’s livable.

Suspension systems transfer acceleration to the driver.

The parts between the tire and your body, such as the chassis, suspension, and even the seat, are all where cars start to differ from each other. These parts the amount of acceleration reflected to the driver effects.

On the YouTube channel “Donut”, a test was conducted on two different cars traveling at the same speed. Accelerometers were used in cars. Even though the speeds are the same The accelerometer differed. It wasn’t about which car was faster, it was about which car felt faster. So we can feel the acceleration, and a car with stiff suspension transfers more momentum to our body. So we “feel faster”.

The role of perception is also undeniable.

Our eyes and brain can mislead us in our perception of speed. As our perspective increases and environmental factors increase, that we’re going slower We think and our perception changes.

In the experiment conducted on this subject, participants were asked to estimate the speed of the cars, and as their viewing angle widened, their speed estimates increased. Also, lower cars generally feel faster because they provide control and a “feel of speed.”

Sounds coming from the car and sudden changes in acceleration are another factor that affects our feeling of speed. Sudden changes in speed and jolts, engine vibration or exhaust rumbles; We can trick our brains into thinking we’re going faster than we actually are, like when it comes to wide viewing angles. All these reasons make some vehicles feel faster.

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