If it is a 50 mph per hour wind and you drive your car at 50mph downwind, if you L@@T???

Question

if it is a 50 mph per hour wind and you drive your car at 50mph downwind, if you stick your head outside would you fell the wind?

Answer 1

If you're travelling downwind, then the 50mph wind in question is a tailwind. So if you and the wind are moving at the same speed in the same direction, then technically you shouldn't feel anything, in terms of a "breeze", i.e. moving air, but you will feel the air as you push your head through it. (Here, I'm thinking analgously to putting your cheek up against the window...you're moving at 50mph and so is the window of the car, but you feel the window against your cheek if you rest your head against the window.)

Answer 2

In theory NO. You wouldn't feel the wind.

But in practice you would feel some air movement due to the turbulance created by the car moving through the air.

I have done this on a bike - you can reach a state of equilibriam between the tailwind and your forward motion being at exactly the same speed and therefore feel no wind.

Answer 3

Yes you'd feel 50mph wind hitting you in the face... the wind is travelling at 50mph straight at you & the car.

Answer 4

No you would not feel the wind, it would seem quite still. But you might whack your head off the wing mirror of a truck coming the other way.

Answer 5

that happened to me once , there was a bird flying next to me and i was driving about 20mph and when i opened my window the bird flew in the car and crashed in the wind shield, when i told the policeman who stopped what had happened he never thought twice about testing me for alcohol content. i just told him **** on a shingle and he said where do we go from here next.

Answer 6

yeah, the wind could be moving in a different direction

Answer 7

yes