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I have no doubt this car has numerous semis in it of all types from the engine to traction control, braking and other functions and was designed using the latest semis and software. Is technology in this application getting out of hand? Will this actually present a danger to have this car on the street?
A fun read, the culmination being in 1972. You’re right but it’s funny how much goal posts move over time:
In late 1971, well prior to the Evan Green article being published in Sydney in mid 1972, a magazine had shown a Ford Falcon GTHO Phase III being driven (legally) at over 225 km/h (140 mph) on a Victorian public highway.[4] at the time, Victoria had no maximum speed limit, so there was technically no fault in this as long as the drivers were driving safely in the eyes of the police.
The other performance issue nowadays is cars like the Tesla Plaid S and Lucid Air Sapphire can now exceed 1.2G of acceleration, and Tesla has talked about a “SpaceX” package for the Roadster that will use cold gas thrusters of some kind to create a vacuum under the car allowing more traction than would be otherwise possible, with rumored 0-60 of < 1.5 seconds (i.e. 2G+ of acceleration peak likely).
The days of the dollar bill test are long since past.. (stick a dollar bill on the dashboard and see if the passenger can grab it under hard acceleration)
