Centripetal Acceleration Question

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Is it possible to drive your car so as to have a nonzero centripetal acceleration while your tangential acceleration is zero?
 
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You mean like at a constant speed around a constant radius banked circuit?

edit. You posted this in a homework forum, if this is homework you really have to try and answer it yourself as in the guidelines that should have appeared when you posted.