There are cases that causes me to lose all my hope in the bunch of who lives in this country. Like traffic accidents... You may think that after a certain number of deaths people will learn to drive safer and slower. I asure you that you will see how wrong you are when you drive in Istanbul. First you will think that your ride is out of gas and you are not moving. As soon as you realize you are moving and you have gas in your tank, you will freak out, because you will think that you took a wrong turn and get into the F1 races. It will take your 30 seconds to realize those cars passing you by are not F1 cars but normal daily life cars, busses !, even trucks!!. In the mean time when you are trying to find a way among all the cars you can think about which one is actually safer; being passed by a F1 car or a truck that is travelling with the same speed.
To be honest I think people who drive fast are not the ones to blame. How can they know, driving fast can cause deaths. After all all people on road are not graduated from university. So they can't find the speed that would cause a human death in an accident by using pshysics equations. I am also possitive that those drivers don't know about the kinetic energy formula 1/2*m*V^2 so they can't know actually they have to drive their ride slower if it is heavier (truck example). I don't know if there is another country where more people dies because of traffic accidents than terror actions but I believe people need at least another century to learn how to drive like civilized people in Turkey.
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Ha! I admit, a lot of us foreigners think the traffic is a little crazy, so it's nice to hear the same opinion from a local. I don't think things will be much better in Brazil, though, so I guess I better get used to it.
YanıtlaSilI liked the casual use of equations here--no wonder you were nominated as the physicist of the class.