Emergency braking at 70mph vs 100mph or why your intuition about deceleration is wrong

Emergency braking at 70mph vs 100mph or why your intuition about deceleration is wrong

A car going at 70mph slams on the brakes and stops just in time to avoid crashing into a downed tree. What would its final speed be if it had been going 100mph to start? It turns out it’s bad…probably way worse than you thought.

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