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A car can have a negative acceleration and be speeding up.

A negative acceleration determines the direction of the acceleration

A car with forward acceleration will speed up in the forward direction

A car moving forward with a negative acceleration will slow down

A car not moving with a negative acceleration will speed up in the backward direction

A car moving backward with a negative acceleration will speed up in the backward direction

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It is physically impossible for an object to have a negative acceleration and yet be speeding up?

Not yet possible, maybe later. Acceleration is the first derivative of the speed by definition. So this comes back to a mathematical question. When do we have a first derivative negative? The only possibility is that the function has a negative slope, meaning in the case of the object trajectory, that the object's speed is decreasing. If you could have objects decelerating while speeding up you should also think about accelerating objects winding down and steady objects wandering abound. As this was not easy to find conceptual representation for such situations, God just said to objects "thou will stop speeding up when you have a negative acceleration, capito?" <<>> The answer could be 'yes' if the body has a negative velocity as well as a negative acceleration (relative to a given system of coordinates). In that case the speed is increasing even though the acceleration is negative.


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