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The extreme size of tractor-trailers means that they also have an extremely large stopping distance once the brakes are applied. Estimates show that a tractor-trailer moving at 60 mph has a typical stopping distance of 310 feet (more than a football field) once brakes are applied.
Victims and Elected Officials Fight for Truck Safety on Capitol Hill
Brian Goggin
This part I will do alone, leaving you behind. Don’t follow. I’m well beyond you now, and traveling very fast.
Annihilation
Jeff VanderMeer
Ripple and MediLedger’s uses of the blockchain could mean safer drugs and faster money transfers for regular people, without requiring anyone to create a digital wallet or exchange coins. As for consumer crypto? If the industry’s deafening pitch for a financial revolution sounds too good to be true, that’s because it is. Until it can offer affordable, everyday uses for new coins and expansive protections against fraud and scams, we are all better off sticking with cash and traditional banking systems than joining the parade of crypto boosters marching across our screens and cities.
It’s Okay to Opt Out of the Crypto Revolution
technologyreview.com
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