Given the following scenario, what variables would you manipulate to try and make a collision occur? Say for example, the self-driving car is approaching an intersection with a yellow light for their direction of travel, there is also a car on the road following closely behind it in the same direction, in the same lane. The two cars come to a stop without incident in this example. What variables would you manipulate in simulation to cause a collision?

You are investigating an accident that occurred early on a foggy morning in Oxfordshire. A 2015 Prius Hatchback traveling due north collided in a highway intersection with a 2012 Nissan Pathfinder that was traveling due east. After the collision, the wreckage of the two vehicles was locked together and skidded across the level ground until it struck a tree. You measure that the tree is 11 m from the point of impact. The line from the point of impact to the tree is in a direction 39° north of east. From experience, you estimate that the coefficient of kinetic friction between the ground and the wreckage is 0.45. Shortly before the collision, a police officer with a laser speed gun measured the speed of the Prius to be 80 km/h and, according to a witness, the Prius driver made no attempt to slow down. Four people with a total mass of 230 kg were in the Nissan. The only person in the Prius was the 80 kg driver. The Nissan with its passengers had a mass of 2362 kg, and the Prius with its…

For safety reasons, some of the fastest dragsters, called top-fuel dragsters, do not race for more than 300 to 400 meters. Consider such a dragster that, when the light turns green, accelerates uniformly from rest and completes a 357 meter race in a time of 9.56 seconds. Part A: During this period, what is the dragsters acceleration expressed as a multiple of the acceleration due to gravity, g?  Part B: If the dragster could continue with this average acceleration, what would its speed be, in miles per hour, after it has traveled a total distance of 1.6km, which is approximately one mile?

Please answers parts a and b

At t=0 an object has a position of 1 m and has a steady velocity of -2.5 m/s.     What will be the object’s position at t = 6 seconds? Make a sketch of position vs. time for this motion from t=0 to t=6 s. Make a sketch of velocity vs. time for this motion from t=0 to t=6 s. Does the object change directions between 0 and 6 s?