Street tire static and kinetic friction coefficients?

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The discussion focuses on the friction coefficients of street tires on dry asphalt, specifically seeking both static and kinetic values. It establishes that the static friction coefficient for family cars is approximately 0.8-0.9, derived from braking distances of 45-50 meters at 100 km/h. Additionally, a Porsche 911 Carrera Turbo on rally tires achieves a static coefficient of 1.1 with a braking distance of 34.5 meters. For kinetic coefficients, police forensics utilize values of 0.7 for dry asphalt and 0.55 for wet asphalt when analyzing skid marks in collision investigations.

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Anybody know where I can find data on normal street-tire friction coefficients on dry asphalt? I'd like both the static, and the kinetic coefficients. If not, can somebody give me a range of reasonable values?

While I'm at it... What about racing slicks on asphalt?

I found one source that said the static friction coefficient of a tire on concrete is about 1. But, it didn't say what kind of tire, didn't give me the kinetic coefficient, it's on concrete, and it seems too high.
 
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You may calculate static coeff from breaking distance of cars using ABS. For most family cars breaking distance on dry asphalt from 100 km/h is 45-50 meters, thus (static) friction coefficient is 0.8-0.9.
Porsche 911 Carrera Turbo on rally tyres on standard German asfalt pavement claims breaking distance of 34.5m => f.coeff=1.1

Regarding kinetic coeff: police forensics use coeff=0.7 for dry and 0.55 for wet asphalt to compute speed from skid marks during collision investigation.
 
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http://hpwizard.com/tire-friction-coefficient.html"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rVprtWPsiw
 
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Oh, cool. Before I started this thread, I got search results from that site, but the site was down at the time. I didn't know what was on that site. Thanks.
 

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