You are the juror of a case involving a drunken driver whose 972 kg sports car ran into a stationary 2094 kg station wagon stopped at a red traffic light. The cars stuck together and slid with locked wheels for 11.0 m before coming to rest. The coefficient of sliding friction on the dry road was 0.70. Estimate the speed of the sports car when it hit the station wagon.
Estimate the instantaneous acceleration of the sports car during the actual collision if the colliding cars reach the same final speed after collapsing a combined total distance of 0.8 m.