Another widely distributed early story mentioning the Darwin Awards is the JATO Rocket Car, which describes a man who strapped a JATO ( Jet-Assisted Take-Off ) unit to his Chevrolet Impala in the Arizona desert and who died gloriously on the side of a cliff as his car achieved speeds of 250 to 300 miles per hour.

In 1987 Bill Elliot's asphalt blistering qualifying time at Talladega brought about a change at superspeedways ( Daytona and Talladega ). Such high speeds and Bobby Allison's car going airborne into the catch-fence and injuring fans forced NASCAR to implement power-reducing measures, one of which was the mandated implement of below carburetor restrictor plates.

Internal-combustion engines produce useful torque only over a limited range of rotational speeds ( typically from around 1, 000 – 6, 000 rpm for a small car ).

With respect to noise pollution, trucks emit considerably higher sound levels at all speeds compared to typical car ; this contrast is particularly strong with heavy-duty trucks.

A common one is the opened sunroof of a car: air passing over the top of the vehicle can, at certain speeds, strike the back edge of the sunroof, creating a very low frequency whistle which is resonated by the closed interior of the car.

As the horse-drawn carriage was replaced by the car and lorry or truck, and speeds increased, the need for smoother roads and less vertical displacement became more apparent, and pneumatic tires were developed to decrease the apparent roughness.

During tests, the car reached top speeds of, at a turbine speed of 50, 000 rpm.

The cars are quite fast ( with some tracks allowing speeds well in excess of 235 mph ), but the big block engine and extra fuel needed to run it during a race make the car less nimble than the F1 cars, while increasing braking distances.

Some recent projects being developed at the university include Flame, first humanoid robot possessing the ability to walk as humans, Superbus, project aiming to design a high speed busses reaching the speeds of 250 km / h, Nuna, solar-powered race car and four times winner of the World Solar Challenge, DUT Racing, electrical Formula Student project having won multiple competitions, Delfly, Micro air vehicle and the smallest ornithopter so far fitted with a camera, Fhybrid, world's first hydrogen-powered scooter, Tribler, an open source peer-to-peer client with online TV functionalities, Delfi-C3, CubeSat satellite constructed by TU Delft students, Forze, hydrogen fuel cell-powered racing car, as well as Eco-Runner vehicle participating in Eco-marathon.

The sad lyrics contemplate lost love as the car speeds down the bleak highway between the Nevada towns.

On a sea voyage back to America, he came up with the idea to recruit his race car driver friends as fighter pilots, on the theory that such men were accustomed to tight spaces and high speeds.

With unparalleled speeds around the Brooklands circuit, the Vauxhall was so far ahead of all other cars of any class that the driver could relax, accomplishing the at an average speed of, when the car was capable of.

Using Ford's 2. 5 litre version of the V6 Essex engine meant that the car could still reach speeds of over 110 mph, have slightly better mpg, but ultimately reduce the cost to the public by approx £ 120.

Vehicle spacing is about 6 car lengths, however speeds are still at or above 50 mi / h ( 80 km / h ).

* The 2004 film I, Robot features autonomous vehicles driving on highways, allowing the car to travel safer at higher speeds than if manually controlled.

The 12A engine produced 100 hp ( 75 kW ) at 6000 rpm, allowing the car to reach speeds of over.

Terrified, Mann jumps into his car and speeds away.

The truck speeds toward the damaged car as Mann accelerates, drives up a dirt road, and turns to face his opponent on a large hill overlooking a canyon.

And just like one of its warnings in the SNL sketch, it did accelerate to dangerous speeds, enough to crush the armored car.

During tests, the car reached top speeds of 88 mph ( 140 km / h ), at a turbine speed of 50, 000 rpm.

While the car has been highly rated for safety, there was some controversy and lawsuits in the 1990s and 2000s over Ford Crown Victoria ( and its Mercury and Lincoln counterparts ) gas tank leaks after certain types of high speed impacts, specifically when being hit in the rear end at high speeds.

On June 5, 1980, Gulf + Western unveiled an electric car, powered by a zinc chloride battery that would hold a charge for several hours and permit speeds of up to.

In testing 1 / 4 mile times were getting close to the 16s, top speeds had dropped to barely over, and the car moved further away from " musclecar " status.

Shortly before nine I drove my jalopy to the street facing the Lake and parked the car in shadows far enough away from the rendezvous corner but near enough to keep the corner in clear view.

I found a parking place half a block away, sat in the car and waited.

The big car sprang away from the curb like something alive.

Hub, nosing about, spotted reporters in the lobby, so Andy was hustled away quietly through the hotel's service entrance in a strange car which Hub had procured somewhere.

The younger son told police his brother had run from the house after the shootings and had driven away in their mother's car.

Before hitting the pole, Mr. Stone's car brushed against a car driven by Alva W. Vernava, 21, of 23 Maple Ave., North Providence, tearing away the rear bumper and denting the left rear fender of the Vernava car, police said.

Had she forgotten she had signed the car away, that whatever they mutually owned had been divided among the children??

He was stationed in San Francisco from 1869 through 1871 and he took out a patent for the cable car railway that still runs there, receiving a charter for its operation, but signing away his rights when he was reassigned.

Mildred initially denies knowledge of what happened to Clarisse, then tells Montag exactly what happened to her: Clarisse was run over by a speeding car and, once her family heard the news about her death, they packed up and moved away, all of which happened four days ago.

On impulse, Elin persuades Agnes to hitchhike to Stockholm, a five-hour car journey away.

Many world-renowned ski resorts such as Verbier and Crans-Montana are just over an hour away by car.

At Soliah's 2002 sentencing hearing on the bombing, police officer John Hall, who had been in the car on top of the bomb described a little girl who stood feet away with her family:

Stephenson argues that people continue to buy the station wagon despite free tanks being given away, because people do not want to learn how to operate a tank ; they know that the station wagon dealership has a machine shop that they can take their car to when it breaks down.

On April 16, 1995, he drove to Oklahoma City with fellow conspirator Terry Nichols where he parked a getaway car several blocks away from the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building.

Instead of ordering his driver to speed away, Heydrich called his car to a halt and attempted to take on the attackers.

* February 12 – The electric car belonging to Henry Lindfield of Brighton runs away on a hill in Purley, London, England, and hits a tree ; thus he becomes the world's first fatality from an automobile accident on the public highway.

Never one to be awed by the trappings of success, Lauda famously gave away any trophies he won to his local garage in exchange for his car to be washed and serviced.

It was only after the federal agents mistakenly shot a local resident and two innocent Civilian Conservation Corps workers as they were about to drive away in a car that the Dillinger gang was alerted to the presence of the BOI.

Just minutes before the killings, a truck driver named Elmer Lewis had turned a corner only a block away from 2122 North Clark and sideswiped what he took to be a police car.

Promoted to colonel and immediately ordered home, his usefulness at an end to both Faisal and the British diplomats, a dejected Lawrence is driven away in a staff car.

She was harassed by white protesters outside the school, and the police had to take her away in a patrol car to protect her.

Since the doctor walked him to the car, he did not have time to look right away at what he had written.

Some people then started moving away from the car park towards the jetty.