Yet like the two-seat XK, the XF is surprisingly adept and entertaining at high speed: a hypercompetitive driver will mostly keep up with the more powerful competition.
Based on this explanation, it could be imagined that should the cues associated with the perceived approach toward the torso be strengthened, the effect of toward-torso cues on the speeding of a driver's reactions to time-critical events might be even stronger.
In terms of the speeding analogy, the slowest speed achieved by a driver tells us a lot more about his or her mean speed (the speed that may well matter the most) than does the highest speed in the first 10 minutes.
The progression of lights, Mr. Primeggia explained, sets the speed at which a driver can move through several consecutive green lights without needing to brake for a red light.
His other personal qualities included being a reckless speed demon driver, a world class pianist, a gifted bridge-player, a spectacular Sunday Times cross-word puzzle solver, a master chef, a genius voice teacher, and an easy mark for out of luck friends.
Another, its bumper hanging, its fender rusted, turns the corner filled with people whose faces are a mask of fury, and during the green light a car speeds past with a driver who calls out, "Whores!" When I told my son my plans to join the sign-wavers, he cautioned me against it.
On the high-speed Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, where a driver's status and reputation is measured by his willingness to offer total commitment to repeated hard braking from 190mph and preparedness to shave walls at more than 160mph on the exit of dauntingly quick corners, Hamilton and Kubica demonstrated that they are the most exciting new talents to emerge possibly for a generation.
To run at speeds above 240kmh, a driver should have some training.
A team of researchers from the Center for Automotive Research at Stanford (CARS) has developed an Audi TTS to ascend the mountain at race speeds... without a driver.
