Other cases have ended more tragically, with the death of suspected lovers during high-speed car chases.
King's beating after a high-speed car chase and its aftermath forever changed Los Angeles, its police department and the dialogue on race in America.
Mated to a quick-shifting eight-speed automatic transmission, it brings the car up to speed swiftly and with authority when pressed hard.
Because there was no traffic I kept the car speed just below the legal limit.
Before Brady, the previous highest recorded speed in a car to result in a conviction was 156mph, by Aberdeen car dealer Jason McAllister.
In the age of photography, though, it is the image that is the distraction, and if the distracted individual is travelling at speed in a car, such distraction could be fatal.
If the CAN bus can be programmed to control the speed of your car, Freymann says, it could also be vulnerable to hackers -- which, at 70 mph, is chilling to contemplate.
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In fact, the car apparently already holds the "unofficial" speed record for an automous car at 130 miles per hour and, in the long term, Stanford hopes that it'll be able to complete the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, which stretches some twenty kilometers and includes no less than 156 turns.
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How do you like the notion that someone somewhere always has the position (and speed) of your car logged?
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It may well be that using Newtonian physics mis-states the speed of a crashing car by some fraction of an inch per hour.
The Algarve test will be the first time Hamilton has driven an F1 car at speed since clinching the title and becoming F1's youngest ever champion in Brazil last November.
If the perceptual abilities of autocars were hooked into the police (moving about in their self-driven patrol cars), every road would be a speed trap and every car a radar gun.
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It's true that Fleming pokes fun at her rather prissy probity -- refusing to exceed the speed limit during a car chase, for instance -- but Nancy emerges with her virtue intact, as she always has.
As with many serious offenses, the people of Binghampton -- the rough and dangerous neighborhood where Penny grew up -- have collective amnesia when it comes to specific charges: something about a high-speed chase, his car might've struck an officer, he might've resisted arrest -- you know, ordinary stuff.
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One witness, Ashleigh McLernon, 25, heard a car travelling at speed past her grandmother's home in Bathgate.
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The car was gathering speed, and Fyodorov was running along beside it.
One flashpoint was when Schumacher deliberately crashed his car at slow speed to stop the Spaniard snatching pole position for the Monaco Grand Prix.
"You probably would not damage your bumper if you hit a car at this speed, " said landing-system engineer Devin Kipp at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, who helped design the parachute.
He argues that with antilock brake and stability systems, 100 percent reliability is possible because they merely survey signals from within the car: wheel speed, pressure applied to the brake pedal, and so on.
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The Lancer has been the dominant car in world rallying since 1996, and Tommi Makinen's four world title owed as much to his car's speed, consistency and reliability as to his own skills behind the wheel.
Ford's prototype system aims to lessen distraction by taking readouts from biometric sensors and combining the data with information from the car, including speed, steering-wheel angle, and data from radar sensors or cameras used in blind-spot obstacle detection or cruise control.
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Seat belts could, in the 100 milliseconds of a crash, avoid breaking an old lady's ribs by calibrating how much force to apply to a body after gathering sensor data on the car's speed and deceleration and the weight and position of the occupant.
No, its ride-leveling suspension and adaptive dampening won't turn it into a 540i, nor can you completely ignore the fact that it has a four-speed transmission (every other car in this class gets at least five cogs in the shift box) that sends power through the front, not back wheels.
"You'll arrive in a town - and there will be a signal sent to your car not to exceed a maximum speed, and you won't be able to, and distance to the car in front will also be controlled, " he said.
Authorities said the man then lost control of his car after he was shot and died when his car collided at high speed with a truck.
The driver, Abdulrahman al Ghamdi, drove off and was pursued by the police at speed before losing control of the car and dying in the crash.
"She runs so smooth, keeps such a smooth line and that's what you have to do to carry speed here, " co-car owner and fellow driver Tony Stewart said.
The high-speed track suits the Red Bull car and there remain questions about the Brawn car's ability to be competitive in the lower ambient temperatures that are usual at Spa-Francorchamps.
We know that an officer in an unmarked police car had seen the car being driven at speed along Essington Way and turned to follow it with the aim of getting it to stop.
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