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Old 3rd Feb 2017, 12:15
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Originally Posted by Band a Lot
I was driving my car the other day into a 50km head wind at a speed of 100km/h, suddenly the wind changed 180 degrees at this point and 5 seconds later what is my new cars speed per hour?

a)100km/h
b)150km/h
c)200km/h
x) my car is accelerating from 100km/h to a higher speed
Actually the car would be rolling to a standstill because it was a Tesla, and by the time it had clawed its way to 100km/h it had insufficient battery charge remaining to sustain it for a further 5 seconds...

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