If you’ve used different vehicles before, you may have noticed that some of them “feel faster.” I’ve been through everything How can we feel what we call ‘speed’?

What we feel isn’t really speed, and there are other interesting explanations for why we feel this way. Let’s take a look at some cars making it “feels faster” What are the reasons behind it?

What you feel is not speed, but acceleration.

You can’t tell what speed a car is going by ‘feeling’ that speed, right? Because your body can’t feel the speed. If you think you feel speed, what you feel, is the acceleration or “g-force” (the vector sum of the “non-gravitational” forces experienced by a freely moving object). If you have a constant speed, your acceleration is zero. As your speed increases, your acceleration increases.

Every change in direction in the car affects the amount of g-force, resulting in acceleration. There are also very small accelerations, such as going over bumps. In such places the car accelerates upwards and then descends again. Micro gears So it’s livable.

Suspension systems transfer the acceleration to the driver.

The parts between the tire and your body, such as the chassis, suspension, and even the seat, are all where cars start to differ from each other. These parts the amount of acceleration reflected to the driver Effects.

On the YouTube channel “Donut” a test was conducted with two different cars traveling at the same speed. Accelerometers were used in cars. Even though the speeds are the same The accelerometer was different. It wasn’t about which car was faster, it was about which car felt faster. So we can feel the acceleration, and a car with stiff suspension transfers more momentum to our body. So we “feel faster”.

The role of perception is also undeniable.

Our eyes and brains can deceive us in our perception of speed. As our perspective increases and environmental factors increase, that we go slower We think and our perception changes.

In the experiment conducted on this topic, participants were asked to estimate the speed of the cars, and as their viewing angle increased, their speed estimates increased. Furthermore, lower cars generally feel faster because they provide control and a ‘sense of speed’.

Noises from the car and sudden changes in acceleration are another factor that affects our sense of speed. Sudden changes in speed and jerks, engine vibration or exhaust rumble; We can trick our brains into thinking we are going faster than we actually are, for example when it comes to wide viewing angles. All of these reasons make some vehicles feel faster.

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