I switched cars with a family member today. I usually drive a sedan that’s lower to the ground, and today I’m driving my mom’s SUV. I’ve noticed that I am consistently going way over the speed limit in the SUV because it doesn’t feel like I’m driving as fast at this speed as it does when I’m driving my sedan. Why is that? I’m guessing something to do with optics in the eye?
In: Physics
Relativity, I suppose. The farther you are from a “point of reference”, the harder to gauge how fast you are moving. ex. when you are in a plane at 30,000 feet, looking down at the ground, or at the clouds, you don’t really get a sense of travelling 1,000+ km/h because there’s no reference point.
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