Engineering the World’s Fastest Cars with Jason Fenske
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Acceleration Calculation Methodology
"We have cars that have decelerated from 60 miles per hour to zero in less than 100 feet," he says. "That means the average acceleration or deceleration in this case is greater than one G." The speed limit on street legal tires, our today's limit is about two seconds,. Car companies have said they beat that. They're lying because there's this old industry standard of how we test zero to 60 That actually starts at like six miles per hour. So it's nonsense!"
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