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episode 17: Engineering the World’s Fastest Cars with Jason Fenske
What's the maximum a car can accelerate? Neil deGrasse Tyson, Chuck Nice, and Gary O’Reilly learn how fast cars can really go, how tires work, and the differences between combustion and electric cars with host of Engineering Explained, Jason Fenske.
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Photo Credit: Maurizio Pesce from Milan, Italia, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons