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Originally Posted by ShadeTreeMech
My question is this, what safety issues? I'm talking about 2 licensed drivers, and I'm not talking about the kind of torque from the Escort that could cause a 50 mph jackknife, just enough to keep the thing rolling. And my alternative method would have the van pulling part of the load. But my curiosity is this; does anyone have the ability to calculate the mpg, considering the van and car would be sharing the same air, and so the car would have almost no wind resistance.
There are bendy buses in the UK, the type that bend in the middle but are very long, that have the engine in the rear. And they manage that alright, so why wouldn't a car with an engine too small for the job do alright doing the maintaining speed bit? I'm not trying to start an argument, and I'm only halfway playing with the idea. But the physics ought to be fun to play with, and I'd hoped someone with theoretical curiosity would have fun sorting this out.
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Some fairly recent automobile crash safety research conducted by Mercedes indicated that serious injury and death occur in a matter of 200-milliseconds. With your 2-car NASCAR configuration,once your wife reacted to a traffic situation,the time horizon for any reaction to actually begin would be TWICE the normal span, do to your reaction time.You increase jeopardy for both you and your wife.With you "blind" to what is happening ahead,your already at the accident scene before you even know it's occuring,rear-ending your wife while under power as she's in the process of full lock-up braking and colliding.And correct me if I'm wrong,but I believe it is against the law in all 50-States for anyone to occupy a "trailer" as it is being towed.