Runaway truck ramps! See them on mountain highways. Why not daily life?
You see these in the mountains.
The last place you want to be is between one and a runaway truck.
Until I looked them up online, I didn’t realize there were 4 major types:
Arrester bed: a gravel-filled ramp adjacent to the road that uses rolling resistance to stop the vehicle. The required length of the bed depends on the mass and speed of the vehicle, the grade of the arrester bed, and the rolling resistance provided by the gravel.
Gravity escape ramp: a long, upwardly inclined path parallel to the road. Substantial length is required. Control can be difficult for the driver; problems include rollback after the vehicle stops.
Sand pile escape ramp: a short length of loosely piled sand. Problems include sudden, forceful deceleration; sand being affected by weather conditions (moisture and freezing); and vehicles vaulting and/or overturning after contacting the sand pile.
Mechanical-arrestor escape ramp: a proprietary system of stainless-steel nets transversely spanning a paved ramp to engage and retard a runaway vehicle. Ramps of this type are typically shorter than gravity ramps, and can work even on a downhill grade. These systems tend to be costly, but may save expensive real estate in crowded areas, and prevent even more costly crashes.
The purpose of the ramp is the same regardless of design and that is that the ramp allows a moving vehicle’s kinetic energy to be dissipated gradually in a controlled and relatively harmless way, helping the operator to stop it safely without a violent crash.
Sounds like just the thing for every day life.
Maybe there is an app for that or maybe I should design one.
seeing on the field pull the rope same direction It’s no accident
University of Michigan’s Head Baseball Coach, Erik Bakich said about the current Michigan team heading into the College World Series, “What you’re seeing on the field is guys who are genuinely enjoying each other and genuinely enjoying supporting each other and pulling the rope in the same direction,” Bakich said. “It’s no accident.”
good day good enough to make up for the bad days ebb and flow continues
Summer Solstice – 2019
Google ebb and flow and you can get the response, “a recurrent or rhythmical pattern of coming and going or decline and regrowth.”
My day can change like the weather, with the weather.
A sunny day can make all the difference.
Maybe spending the first 50 years of my live in the Great Lakes State, where the great lakes create a climate that produces 290 cloudy days every year has something to do with it.
Of course, nothing can make my day better, faster, than to see what any of the grand kidz are up to.
Jaxon … caught in the act and learning to climb to what ever he wants!!
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