I live near Six Flags Over Georgia and used to visit occasionally. With a few exceptions, their coasters generally don’t get above 60 mph. Mindbender, for example, tops out at 50mph, but feels so ridiculously fast when you’re riding it. In a car on the highway, though, going 50 doesn’t feel like much of an event at all.
Why is this?
In: Physics
Perspective, Your higher up and things disappear under you a lot father away when driving. It’s just like when you look out the side of the car and things close move out of your field of view faster. The real way to experience it is try to guess how long the white dashes on the highway are and then look up how long they actually are to understand how skewed your perspective of distances are when driving.
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