> There are never any circumstances where you can accelerate out of danger, unless you put yourself in danger in the first place. I don't know how to parse tha

> There are never any circumstances where you can accelerate out of danger, unless you put yourself in danger in the first place. I don't know how to parse that, so I'm going to go with your base belief around acceleration. For an average sedan these days, we're talking ~3,500 lbs. Say 175 hp. 0.05 hp / lb. Now, let's say your average loaded semi runs about 50,000 lbs. Do you think semis have 2,500 hp engines? (Generalizing hp/torque as correlated)