Re: Interesting viewpoint
- From: Chris Malcolm <cam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2007 09:43:01 +0000 (UTC)
Simon Brooke <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
in message <1183144080.616.1.camel@Walpole>, Ambrose Nankivell
('$firstname+'n'@gmail.com') wrote:
On Fri, 2007-06-29 at 18:55 +0100, Peter Grange wrote:
On Thu, 28 Jun 2007 03:58:13 -0700, darsy <darsyx@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Jun 28, 11:40 am, Ace <see...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 28 Jun 2007 10:25:25 GMT, "CT" <m...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
My car (like most I guess these days) displays the ambient
temperature and when it's below 5 degrees, a little 'snow flake'
symbol is also shown so I know when to crawl along at 5mph.
Mine has one of these too, and generally I take it to mean I
shouldn't exceed 119mph, as that's the max speed rating for the
winter tyres.
heh. The Jeep has a digital external temp. display - if it's lower
than 2C I just stick it into permanent 4x4 and drive as per any other
day.
So, you are approaching a bend at 50 mph. The bend has ice over all of
the road. All 4 wheels are on ice. How does your precious 4wd help
then?
It increases maximum cornering speed by approximately 7%, IIRC. Can't be
bothered to find a cite, though.
Not very much, certainly. And maximum cornering speed decreases with the
second power of the weight of the vehicle.
You've lost me there, I'm afraid. I can't imagine the assumptions
under which that would be true, and can imagine lots of assumptions
under which weight of vehicle is irrelevant with respect to cornering
speed.
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