The first train had a top speed of 8 km/h.
What is a car’s stopping distance?
A car’s stopping distance from 300 km/h to 200 km/h is the same as from 200 km/h to 0 km/h.
Fog=speed increase
In foggy weather, drivers misjudge their speed and drive up to 50% faster than they think.
How fast is a snail?
It takes a snail 637 years to migrate from North Jutland to Spain at a rapid pace.
Convergent evolution of the car speed curve
If the curve for the development of cars’ top speed had converged with the curve for the number of calculations per second in a PC processor over the last 25 years, we would today have cars that could drive approximately 45,000,000,000,000 km/h. That’s the equivalent of driving a trip to the sun in about 15 minutes.
