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Re: Emergency braking and bird anatomy [was: Re: DVD copying and CSS]



On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 02:47:00PM -0500, Mike Dresser wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Feb 2004, Pigeon wrote:
> 
> > The UK's Highway Code calculates stopping distances from the equation:
> >
> >   d = v + 0.05(v^2)    (d in feet, v in mph)
> 
> Scary numbers at my cars top speed of 160mph :)
> 
> (Something like a quarter mile)
> 
> Any equations for time? :P

  t = (1 + 0.1v) * (3600/5280)

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