Uncertanity Principle in Macrocosm

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A Macrocosm thing, example a car, can be exist two different places in the same time ?
 
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Why don't you work out an example. Suppose that you know that a 1000 kg car is moving at 10 m/s with a ridiculously low uncertainty of 0.001 angstrom/s. According to the uncertainty principle, what is the uncertainty in the position?

How do you think that quantum mechanical uncertainty in position compares with the uncertainty in the size of the car due to stresses and elastic deformation?
 
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