07-18-2019, 01:41 PM
(07-18-2019, 08:12 AM)danbrotherston Wrote: It's very likely that a collision would not be particularly perceptible to people on the train. A small sedan weighs about a ton, the LRV weighs about 50 tons unloaded, and the braking is particularly powerful. If you watch videos of trams hitting cars, the drivers of the trams are usually not even jostled by the collision, I doubt it would be any more jarring than the usual jostling the LRV undergoes during normal operation.
I have it from a freight train driver that hitting a transport truck doesn’t feel like anything in the cab. Just a data point which may or may not inform what one would expect from an LRV hitting a car.