Re: wheels come off - speed doubles?

[Brian Whatcott <inet@INTELLISYS.NET>]

At 12:06 PM 5/17/02, you wrote:
> An entertaining story, if nothing else:
>
> http://www.wral.com/news/1465614/detail.html
>
>
> 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


What on Earth, was this discussion thread all about?
What was this supposed speed doubling?
Could it possibly refer to a tractor trailer doing 55 in a 35 mph zone?
It's called 'jamming' - happens all the time - when the driver has been
 driving 18 hours even - and that's illegal too.

Truck wheels are big and heavy - they can pull off, they can run on
if the trailer was swinging at the time, and they can bounce up and land
 in someone's frontage.
I just don't see the mystery.




Brian Whatcott
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