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> The actual data paints a different picture To what? That doesn't contradict what I said at all.
by UnoriginalGuy 11y ago
> The actual data paints a different picture
To what? That doesn't contradict what I said at all.
- drbawb 11y agoAll the cars added a marginal [ O(10ft) ] amount of braking distance at wide open throttle; with the exception of a very powerful, heavily tuned sports car which was the only one able to overwhelm its brakes. If we convert MPH to FPS we can look at the data as follows: 70 MPH: 102.667 fps 100 MPH: 146.667 fps CAMRY, V6, 70-0: delta 16 feet, .15sec CAMRY, V6, 100-0: delta 88 feet, .60sec INFINITY 70-0: delta 9 feet, .08sec INFINITY 100-0: delta 6 feet, .04sec We're talking tenths or hundredths of a second of unintended acceleration. A cursory search tells me reaction time to visual stimuli is about ~250ms.[1][2] This means that in all but the Camry 100-0 case your reaction time is a larger factor in braking distance than the presence of wide open throttle. [1]: http://www.humanbenchmark.com/tests/reactiontime/statistics http://www.humanbenchmark.com/tests/reactiontime/statistics [2]: http://www.jneurosci.org/content/26/15/3981.full.pdf http://www.jneurosci.org/content/26/15/3981.full.pdf