A visual physics lesson at 80 km/h.
Enthusiasts launched a man from a moving truck in the opposite direction - at the same speed the car was traveling.
The experiment spectacularly showed how relative speed works
The experiment
spectacularly showed how
relative speed works
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
Would that thing "moving" backwards feel like getting hit by a truck?
Not so much, but only because it needs to accelerate first, so it's not a sudden change from relative zero to relative 80 km/h, and because the person riding it is located and in contact with the ejector seat in a way that reduces the impact of the acceleration.
Mythbusters did it more safely, with a soccer ball.
Their insurance wouldn't let them fling one of their own off a speeding truck.
I feel like those guys in OP may not have had insurers to tell them no.
