Re: wheels come off - speed doubles?

[Tim O'Donnell <odonnt@CELINA.K12.OH.US>]

I think it is bogus as well.


> An entertaining story, if nothing else:
>
> http://www.wral.com/news/1465614/detail.html
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>
> I'm having a hard time figuring what physical mechanism
> might make the speed double. I want to say this is bogus,
> despite the highway patrol (see text and video) obviously
> taking it as fact... it if was true, there should be an
> obvious kinetic energy principle behind it, but I see none.
>
>
> Stefan Jeglinski