This has bugged the crap out of me for years. I've seen it in action movies every so often and now it's on the latest Chevy commercial - where you have a flatbed truck or car carrier rolling down the highway at high speed with a ramp hanging off the back of it almost touching the road. Then someone comes up and drives a car onto the truck. I know it looks cool and all but is it really possible to do it that smoothly? I mean, you have wheels rotating at highway speeds hitting a ramp that in relative terms is unmoving. Not only that, but in the case of an AWD vehicle - would the sudden huge change between the front and rear wheels as the car mounted the ramp cause some freaky things to occur to the drivetrain?
Just wondering