2019-05-18 00:04:50.059948+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
Linking to Wired: Tesla’s Latest Autopilot Death Looks Just Like a Prior Crash for this bit of innumeracy:
... At 68 mph, the car was covering 100 feet a second. A Model 3 going 60 mph needs 133 feet to stop. If that ratio holds, the Tesla in question could have stopped within 151 feet. ...
Uh, no, stopping distance is squared with speed, not linear with speed. That'd be closer to 171'. How did this make it past an editor?
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