Can a go-cart, even drafting behind a truck, reach 60 miles per hour in speed?
Also, how could the relative speed of the go-cart and the blown tire be 120 miles per hour? Wouldn’t the tire have been traveling forward at the same speed as the truck? Seems like the relative speed would have been 0 plus a few miles per hour to account for the tire’s rapid slowdown due to air drag.
Don’t forget that the part of the tire on the ground is not moving at all!
And their dummy didn’t look too different from the one on Mythbusters.
Those are electric carts. Don’t know their top speed, but I’d guess in the 25 MPH range. I could be way off though.
Electric? Are you sure? That makes it seem even less plausible to me. If the motor itself couldn’t turn the wheels any faster than 25 mph, I’d think there would be considerable resistance to their going any faster, unless you could put the cart in neutral somehow.
And I wouldn’t think a vehicle with such a low profile could draft behind a truck at any speed.
Where is Kari Byron when we need her?
What kind of go-cart was it?
I haven’t seen the episode yet, but just wanted to pop in and say that some go-carts can go quite fast.
I just found this episode really boring. I could have cared less about the go-kart death, and the whole Blind restaurant thing was stupid. It started out with an interesting premise, but the blind waiter confessing to everything was out of left field.
And no, I don’t want to eat my dinner in the dark.
I missed the first part so I don’t know if they said they were electric carts, but the standard gas carts for walk-up racing at a local track go 50 mph (and I believe it from personal experience). With drafting or slightly better carts, 60 mph doesn’t sound too far off. And as badbadrubberpiggy showed, performance modifications can get them much faster. More info on how fast carts go.
I thought the episode was really boring, too. So far I’m completely underwhelmed by CSI.