F-22 Engineer Intentionally Crashes into Another Driver's Vehicle to Save His Life - Neatorama

Duane Innes, a manager on the F-22 Raptor project, knows his physics. When he saw a truck driving in front of him on the highway veering out of control, he decided to rescue the driver:

"Basic physics: If I could get in front of him and let him hit me, the delta difference in speed would just be a few miles an hour, and we could slow down together," Innes explained.

So he pulled in front of the pickup, allowed it to rear-end his minivan and brought both vehicles safely to a stop in the pull-off lane.

Link via Gizmodo | Photo: Jim Bates/Seattle Times

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as long as they are safe, that is enough.

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I suspect that the engineer, who knows perfectly well what "delta" means, said "delta" and then realized he was talking to a newspaper reporter who hadn't the slightest clue, so he immediately said "difference" to explain, and the newspaper reporter who hadn't the slightest clue didn't understand that the two words mean the same thing, so he put "delta difference" in his story and nobody at the newspaper caught it either.

Could be wrong, but that seems to be how newspapers work these days.

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Oh, what a nice story... I clicked the link and it got all dusty in here.

Thanks for posting.

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No, they're not. Let me fix that.

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are the two 'crashes' in the title necessary?

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Graffiti is criminal and nerd rage should be kept in basement. Please stay your basements and let the rest of society carry on their lives uninterupted.

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