I am guessing this is going to surprise you but new bridges build protections around the pillars so that any accident like this hit the protection instead of the pillars.
And you obviously have not seen protective pillars around the main bridge pillar, this is not science fiction, hundreds of bridges around the World already have this. Anyway you will see them in 10 years if you are to lazy to use a search engine.
I am guessing this is going to surprise you but new bridges build protections around the pillars so that any accident like this hit the protection instead of the pillars.
Do you understand the kinetic forces involved in that kind of impact?
And you obviously have not seen protective pillars around the main bridge pillar, this is not science fiction, hundreds of bridges around the World already have this. Anyway you will see them in 10 years if you are to lazy to use a search engine.
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