for you, will you hit the lead vehicle? If so at what speed will you be going?
for you, will you hit the lead vehicle? If so at what speed will you be going?
Chapter2: Loads On Structures
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One vehicle is following another on a two-lane, two-way highway at night according to the safe-driving “rule-of-thumb” of one car length spacing for each 10 mph of speed. Both of you traveling at 70 mph when the lead vehicle crashes into an unlighted disable vehicle. Assuming that one car length is 20 feet, f=0.28 and PIEV time is 1.5 for you, will you hit the lead vehicle? If so at what speed will you be going?
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