Re: In what distance would a Bugatti Veyron beat that Vauxhall dragster?

On Jul 13, 5:04 am, "Burgerman" <burger...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> > What I see is that your construct doesn't hold water. It's highly
> > touted as doing 0 - 60 in 1 second. If it were truly accelerating
> > faster and faster as you assert, then it should do that 180 in well
> > under 3 secs.
>
> It does not accelerate faster and faster and I never claimed it did.


Your words:

"...the last 60mph happens as fast as the first only faster..."

"...It gains roughly the same mph per sec at the start as it does at
the finish..."


Some of which doesn't even make sense:

"It uses more boost and more nitrous as speed increases to achieve
this. So divide the 187 or whatever it is by 3. Thats 60mph stages.
Divide the 7 secs by 3... "


Why? It's already a known quantity that he's gaining the first 60mph
in 1 sec, not 1/3 of 7.8 secs.

If he's getting 60 in one sec, and it takes nearly 7 times that to
achieve the next two 60 mph gains, it's obvious each is taking longer
and longer. Even if we pretended the next two 60mph gains 60 - 120 and
120 - 180 were evenly divided - which they won't be, they'll be
successively slower, he's not even getting 120 - 180 in 2.5 secs, and
the faster he goes the forces acting against him aren't going to be
getting any lesser. Given this degradation in acceleration, it's
absurd to assert he can get 150 - 210 in 2.5 secs. He can't even do it
when already under momentum from acceleration let alone from a held
150 then max throttle.