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A tire's grip on the road depends upon the friction between the two. When it rains, the water acts like a lubricant by filling all the tiny gaps in the road and also creates a very thin liquid cushion between the road and the tire. This reduces the amount of friction.
Also, when it rains for the first time after several weeks of dry weather, stopping distances are even greater. Small amounts of oil, gasoline and other lubricants are always dripping from cars, but mostly soak into the road surface. Because oil is lighter than water, when it rains all those drippings float to the top of the water, making the road even more slippery.
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What happens when a car stopping distance when a road gets wet?
Less traction on a wet road so the stopping distance increases.
What happens to the stopping distance when the road gets wet?
you skid
What does wet road conditions affect on a car?
Stopping distance
Why is the stopping distance slower on a dry road?
frition force act on it
How much is the stopping distance for 70 miles per hour?
It depends on the road conditions, as well the state of your brakes.
The stopping distance at 50 mph is?
Stopping distance mostly depends on various factors 1.Width of tyres. 2.Road friction and wetness. 3.weight of your vehicle. For safe driving a minimum of 52metres or more is considerable.
What stopping distance depend on?
Speed, weight of vehicle, condition of road surface, condition of tires, and reaction time of the driver.
The factors that affect the stopping distance of a car?
condition of car condition of driver weather road surface by jibran ali
What determines the stopping distance?
Stopping distance as in braking distance: Braking distance refers to the distance a vehicle will travel from the point where the brakes are fully applied to when it comes to a complete stop. It is affected by the original speed of the vehicle, the type of brake system in use, the reaction time of the driver/rider and the cefficient of friction between the tires and the road surface.
What distance does it take to stop traveling at 50 mph?
The distance to stop depends upon a lot of factors, eg:type of road surfacecondition of tyresstate of road surface (icy, dusty, wet, dry, etc)effectiveness of brakesThe stopping distance given in the Highway Code is based on assumptions that have not changed even though brakes, etc have improved. They are calculated as distance to stop in ft = (speed in mph)² ÷ 20For 50 mph the physical stopping distance is 50² ÷ 20 = 125 ftThe Highway Code gives the emergency stopping distance as this distance plus the thinking distance which is given as 1 ft per mph which at 50 mph is 50 ftThese distances are converted to metres:Emergency stopping distance = thinking distance + physical stopping distance= 50 ft + 125 ft = 175 ft≈ 15 m + 38 m ≈ 53 mThis is the shortest distance based on good brakes, good tyres, dry road. For worn tyres, wet or icy roads, etc increase the distance by a factor of 2, 5, 10 etc.
What is the shortest overall stopping distance on a dry road at 60 mph?
The answer cannot be calculated without further information. It would depend on your stopping power (brake system), the size/weight of the vehicle, etc.
Why is the armadillo called the hillbilly speed bump?
It is called that because it gets run over by cars. They have a habit of stopping in the road, then jumping up when they get scared, which gets them hit by car bumpers.
