The Bugatti Veyron 16.4 is one of the fastest production cars on the planet. From rest, it can attain a speed of 100 km/hr (62.1 miles/hr), traveling in a straight horizontal line, in a mere 2.50 seconds. This seems terribly fast, and perhaps a little dangerous. All the same, I’d like to determine what sort of acceleration the driver would experience and, of course, what angle a pair of Fuzzy Dice would make with the vertical…
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n.b. Unfortunately, I’m unable to acquire any empirical data…since the sticker price is $1.7M.
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