How have I never come across The Physics Factbook before. It has a neatly worked out speed chart for the Rendezvous film. Fast but not permanently bonkers.
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Very interesting….
I’m a dentist now working in the film business…
My first surprise was that a lot of the stunts that you see…are done with out any previous physical study…that’s how I found that accidents happen in the business.
Claudio Mankevich
Production Coordinator
I have a physics question. I drive a 1998 Ford Expedition 4×4 Eddie Bauer Edition with a tow package. Two weeks ago a police pulled me over and gave me a ticket stating that I was doing 92mph. We were both on the freeway going in opposite directions. I was doing 70mph. He passed me turned around on the median, waited for a car to pass then drove like a madman and pulled me over to give me the ticket. I measured the distance from when he saw me up to the point he pulled me over, eight tenths (8/10) of a mile. The highway was rolling hills he crested one as I was coming down another, I looked down at the speedometer when I saw him. When he pulled me over I was going up the hill he just came down and my speed then was 65mph. If I was traveling 92mph could he have stopped me in 8/10 of a mile. Wouldn’t I have arrived at work before he caught up to me? I didn’t change my speed, step on my brakes or change anything because my car reached 70mph on the downhill slope before it was time to go up the next slope, which is why I was only doing 65 when the officer pulled me over. If I passed him driving 92mph and he was on my side of the road at a stop how far would I have traveled before he caught up to me?